Cremorne Alarm Six Fires Police Say Arrest Follows Outbreak
POLICE stated that packets of paper saturated with inflammable liquid, evidence that the liquid had been…
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Family's Escape From Fire. Molong
A house on Brymedura station, and occupie[?] by Mr. Edward Bevan, was destroyed by fir[?] last night. Mr. Bevan and his wife and four children were asleep on the verandah, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boy Rescues Woman In Fire MELBOURNE
DASHING into a burning house at Balwyn to-day, Dick Barwell, 13 rescued Mrs. R. A. Smith who was then at the point of collapse. The women had been lying in a front room when ashes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Quake Chaos Homes in Ruins Now Fuel For Camp Fires CALCUTTA
"MONGHYR CITY is no more," says a special correspondent of the Calcutta '"Statesman," who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Raging Wall of Flames Enormous Damage In Tasmanian Fires Flee for Life Hobart, Thurs
HUGE bushfires are still raging in the Huon and Derwent Valley districts, and leaping forward on a wide front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire and Flood. Indian Earthquake. Death-roll Now 2500. CALCUTTA, Jan. l8
Fire and floods are adding to the havoc caused by the earthquake which rocked India last Monday. The difficulty of relief lies in the fact that it is impossible to reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heat Wave in Three States. Bushfires in South Australia
Heat wave conditions are continuing over New South Wales Victoria, and South Australia and bushfires have occurred [?] South Australia and New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stifling Heat in Country Bush Fires Change Relieves
STIFLING heat in the country yesterday carried temperatures to the highest levels touched this summer. At…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer's Fires Drawn
ADELAIDE, Friday.--Following a mishap to one of her boilers this morning, fires had to be drawn on the Japanese freighter Shinkyo Maru,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the WAY Hidden Fires
THE black opal has hitherto been looked upon as peculiar to Lightning Ridge (N.S.W.), but traces discovered in Central Australia are…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Six Fires. Printing Works at Cremorne
Firemen who were called to the printing works of the Southern Cross Press. Militaryroad, Cremorne, found six fires, and the place was saturated with kerosene. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Free Beer for Fire Fighters
ADELAIDE, Friday.--In two hours this afternoon fire swept across 70 acres of grazing land and scrub at Athelstone, and threatened several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Lorry Mittagong
A bread lorry, the property of Horton Bros., Mittagong, was destroyed by fire while on a delivery [?]un at Colo Vale yesterday. E…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cottages Destroyed by Fire. Lithgow
A weatherboard and brick cottage was destroyed by fire at Hampton, near Lithgow. The owner (Mr. N. Morris) left the premises early in the night and returned to find them…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →'The Tiger' in Blaze of Light Variety Of Speed At Royale Race in Cars
TO-NIGHT'S probramme at the Speedway Royale will be the most varied and comprehensive in the history of the sport. As well as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Beaten As Wind Veers Search for Man Who May Be Dead
HOBART, Friday.--The prayers of farmers, fire-fighters, and others were answered early this morning, when the wind veered from north to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Printer on Charge of Arson Fire Menaced Two Lives, Declare Police at Cremorne
AS the sequel to a fire at the Southern Cross Press, Military Road, Cremorne, on Thursday night, when, the police allege,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intense Heat. Birds Die and Horses Collapse. Dangerous Bushfires
The heat in parts of South Australia yesterday was so intense that birds fell to the ground dead, and horses dropped unconscious. Dangerous bushfires were controlled with…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bushfires Rage at Bathurst Farmers Apprehensive Bathurst
Bushfires are raging in the scrub country in the Vittoria district, but so far they are confined to a comparatively small area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory on Fire Firemen Make Good Save
AS a climax to che sweltering heat of the city yesterday, the top floor of the three-storey Eden Studios Building,…
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