Mystery Fire Death of Barrister's Wife
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Shockingly burned, Mrs. Lydia Gresson, wife of a leading Chirstchurch barrister, was found dead at her…
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Fire Raging in Soviet's Lumber Stores Oslo
According to the newspaper "Aften-Posten," 30 foremen have been executed and numerous workers arrested in connection with a…
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TWO GAPING CRATERS which appeared yesterday at Cessnock above the underground fire in the old Hill End mine…
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The fires which have been burning in the abandoned workings of Hill End Colliery, near Cessnock, took a less serious turn this evening[?] The smoke which had been issuing from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Like Cessnock Fire Peril Danger at Zig-zag Dump Lithgow. Friay
The potential dangers from a fire that is burning in tho Zig Zag colliery dump (which is complsed of slack coal) wore brought before the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hill End Fires Die Down and Danger Fades Situation Is Regarded As Eminently Satisfactory Big Explosion Work of Filling-in Crevices Is Speeded-up Cessnock
AFTER a day of remarkable developments, the Hill End fires have greatly diminished, and tonight the situation was eminently…
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The vista narrows throughout the land. A dead forest spreads on either hand; Trees now are lifeless, trees now dead. Surrounded by leaves unhapp[?]y shed;…
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In his recent article in "The Sun" on the great fire of Sydney in October, 1900, from the ashes of which arose the…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday. -- Officials have every reason to believe that the fires at Hill End are now under control. Smoke issued from five craters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →120 DEAD; 4150 Injured in U.S. Eartttquake Many Cities Are Shaken Fire, Landslide and Tidal Wave 200 Miles of Havoc in Los Angeles Flight From Hospital Flames Race Towards Huge Oil Fields Los Angeles
One hundred and twenty dead, and 4150 injured, is the latest estimate of casualties in Southern California, where earthquake, fire, landslide, and tidal wave wrought havoc over an area 200 miles long, and 30 miles wide, on Friday night. Los Angeles, Long Beach and other big cities suffered severely, 100 communities being rocked…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- More than 500 men turned out this afternoon to fight the most serious fire that Gisborne has had for years…
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Evidence of incendiarism was given at a coroner's inquiry into the causes of two recent fires in Forbes. In the case of the fire which destroyed the…
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POLICE are unable to explain how Robert Stanley Pringle, aged two, received burns from which he died on Saturday in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spectacular Fire In Country Town Huge Stacks of Hay Blazed High Firemen's Battle With Flames
A SPECTACULAR fire at Temora to-day destroyed over 800 tons of stacked hay at the chaff mills of J…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →144 Killed and 5000 Injured in U.S. Quake a Hundred Cities, Towns and Villages Are Shaken £2,000,000 Bill Fires and Floods Add to Terror of the People New York
IT is officially estimated that 144 persons were killed and 5000 injured in the earthquake that rocked a 400-square-mile area of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Choking Fumes Seven Firemen Overcome City Blaze
IN one of the most sensational city fires for years seven firemen last night were over- come by fumes and had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →800 Tons of Hay in Big Blaze Most Spectacular Fire Ever Witnessed at Temora Wide Front Temora
OVER 800 tons of stacked hay at the chaff mills of J. Dolden and Co., on the outskirts of the town, were destroyed to-day…
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Dense smoke gave firemen one of the most difficult fights for some time when a fire broke out last night in Bacon's Buildings, Crane Place, off…
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Over 800 tons of stacked hay was destroyed by a Are at the chaff mills of J. Dolden and Co., Temora, early yesterday morning…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--Two fires occurred in coal mines in Ipswich district to-day. Early this morning the Southern Cross coal mine, near…
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