£10,000 Fire Damage: City Block Imperilled 40 Firemen at Work: Life Risks
Answering an alarm call to a fire in George-street, near the Central Railway Station early last night. 40 firemen…
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Suburban Bushfires
Suburban fire brigades were kept busy yesterday afternoon answering calls to bushfires at Mortdale, Bankstown. Crow's Nest, Gordon,…
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HOBART, Sunday.--Trying to burn a firebreak round a pile of palings, Herbert Boden, 65, was burned to death…
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Forty firemen risked death from fierce flames and film fumes when fighting a fire at the Eden Building on Saturday evening…
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Clearing away the debris in Petroff's boot factory, Eden Studio Buildings, after Saturday night's fire…
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The electric generator and equipment on the State railway coach carrying the Governor (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven) and Lady Hore-Ruthven became overheated at Tailem…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dance Hall Damaged by Fire. Melbourne
Just before the doors opened for the first dance of the season a fire destroyed the too storey of the Electra Palais, on Beach-road, Black Rock, last night. The ground floor…
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The unoccupied house of Mr. E. W. Bronson in Byrne-street, Blackwood, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. About 50 local residents, including the private secretary to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspect Wounded. Police Fire Six Shots. ADELAIDE
Complaints made to the Glenelg police led to the arrest early on Saturday morning of a well-known resident. He was apprehsnded after a chase in which six shots were fired…
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A fire which menaced a city block in a congested area broke out in Eden Building, George-street, on Saturday evening. Four brigades of firemen, working under difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →S.a. Governor's Fire Peril Electric Overheating Halts Train
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--When the electric generator and equipment on the State railway coach carrying the Governor, Sir Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prize Hens Burnt. Fire in Poultry Pens. Police Suspect Incendiarism
A series of fires, which the police think were caused deliberately, destroyed 65 prize fowls, valued at £65, at Bankstown early yesterday morning…
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SHORTLY after 8 o'clock last night a fire broke out at the Elektra Palais, Black Rock, and gutted the promises. Art works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BUSHFIRES. Smoke Crosses Bass Strait. Haze Over Melbourne. Melbourne
Evidence of the severity of the bushfires which have been raging in Tasmania was provided yesterday by a haze of smoke which crossed Bass Strait on the southerly breeze…
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BUSHFIRES continue to rage in Tasmania. A black and charred mass, burned beyond recognition, was all that remained of Herbert Boden, 65, a paling-splitter of Ellendale, who was trapped while fighting one of the fires on Thursday. The…
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Fire brigades from Woollahra, Bondi and Paddington attended an outbreak in Wanulla Street, Rose Bay, last night, when a…
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A four-room weatherboard cottage in Wunulla-road, Rose Bay, was extensively damaged by fire late last night. It was owned by Thomas Johnston and Sons, boatshed…
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HOBART, Monday.--Leaving his home early this morning to assist in combating an outbreak nearby, Mr. F. Wharton, of Judbury, returned…
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A fire which broke out in a two-storey building, occupied by Joseph Lewis, draper, in Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, last night, caused…
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Four children and two sick nurses were hurriedly moved from an isolation ward of the Children's Hospital when a fire broke out at 8.20 a.m…
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