Fire in City. Brigades Make Good Save
Firemen made a good save last night when a fire broke out in a four-story building at 31a Pitt-street. Dense clouds of black smoke were pouring from the second floor when the…
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Picnickers Start Big Fire in Vic. Melbourne
DUE to the carelessness on the part of picnickers, a big fire sweat over a large area near Gisborne yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hill End Fire Front Is Quiet Cessnock
There were no developments in the Hill End mine fires to-day. Smoke heavily charged with nauseating fumes, is issuing from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery on Fire. Pit to Be Sealed. Brisbane
A fire which broke out during the weekend is now burning strongly in the Southern Cross Colliery, on the Bundamba loop line, Ipswich. The actual extent of the fire is…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.--Blasting at the burning Hill End Colliery today showed the risk taken by sightseers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lightning Causes Bushfires. Albury
When a tree near Bowna was struck by lightning, the wind carried the flames into Tivldale property. The fire reached to within 100 yards of the homestead. About 1000 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Causes £1000 Damage. Molong
A large shed at Mr. G. N. Magill's Eramble Station, seven miles from Molong, caught fire early this morning. Damage estimated at £1000 was done. Four motor cars, some…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire Mystery Kapok Soaked In Petrol
THIS fire is shrouded in mystery," said the Parramatta Coroner (Mr. Richardson Clark), after an inquiry yesterday into a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Abandoned Colliery Workings Near Cessnock
Smoke belching forth from one of the craters of the Hill End Colliery, near Cessnock. Flames more than 30th high [?] The fire caused considerable alarm among residents in the vicinity. Latest advices were list the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Deadly Fire Panic 41 Are Killed In Cinema Stampede GUADALJARA (Mexico)
WHEN a panic-stricken audience stampeded from a burning cinema at Ahualulco on Monday night, 41 people were killed and 70 were injured. The fire, which occurred in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel to Bushfire. Albury
At Albury Police Court, Joseph Graham was fined £5 for having, at Gerogery, used inflammable material within 10 yards of grassland, whereby property of Roy Poole Gibbons…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush Fires Critic
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Contending that many disastrous bushfires were started by graziers, Sir James Barrett said at a meeting of…
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LINDA ROSA (Heville).—Not very many miles from here we had, quite recently, a very big bush-fire, which was stated to be ten miles wide. Men, both day and night, fought…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in Theatre. 41 People Killed. VANCOUVER, March 14
A message from Guadala Jara (Mexico) states that 41 people were killed and 70 were gravely injured on Monday night, when a motion picture theatre caught fire in the town…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Chief Reminiscent Turned Hose on Spectator! 32 Years' Service
How he once ordered a fireman to turn the hose on to an official who attempted to countermand his order is told by Station-Officer Bob Holmes, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →41 Killed in Stampede Cinema Fire Leads to Panic Guadaljara (Mexico)
THERE were 41 people killed and 70 injured when the audience stampeded from a burning cinema at Ahualulco…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Shops Blaze
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A block of three wooden shops in the business centre of Mangangatang was destroyed by fire late last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ingenious Escape Burnt Way Out of Cell with Mattress
Ingenuity was shown by Francis Clifford Wiles in his escape on Wednesday night from toe Lithgow lockup…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Causes £8000 Damage. Mmelbourne
Damage, estimated at between £8000 and £10,000, was done when three shops, with their contents, were destroyed by fire at Manangatang late last night. The absence of any…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Guests Menaced by Fire Blayney
When a fire which broke out at the Club House Hotel this morning threatened the store room. where inflammable liquors are kept, the…
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