Brisbane Blaze Building Gutted, But Another Saved Brisbane
Manahan's two-story premises, near the corner of Queen and George streets, in the centre of the city business block, were gutted by fire late…
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Glory Box Was Saved Canaries, Cockatoo, Too in Bexley Fire
Brigadesmen from Bexley and Kogarah last night saved a cockatoo, a number of canaries, and a girl's glory box when a weatherboard cottage…
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Damage estimated about £10,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in Manahan's two-storey building, near the corner of Queen and George…
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DAMAGE estimated at many thousands of pounds was caused by the most disastrous city fire in Brisbane for years…
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All city fire stations were called out, shortly after 6 p.m. to-day. to fight a big fire in Kippax-street. Headquarters was informed that a…
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A SCHEME for the modernisation of London's street Are alarm system will come before the London County Council next week on the…
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Pieces of paper smelling of kerosene were, found in the basement of premises in Oxford-street, Woollahra, 12 hours after the fire brigade had…
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The death of a man, trapped by fire in a packing-case, in which he had fallen asleep, was described at the inquest at Capetown on Johannes…
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Fifty firemen fought a blaze which gutted a building covering an acre in South Melbourne last night, and caused damage estimated at £20,000…
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The Coronet Picture Theatre, in Churchstreet, Wyong, was destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. yesterday. Only the bare walls are left. The owner of the property. Mr. Shem Davis, was…
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Damage estimated between £15,000 and £20,000 was caused by a fire in a two-story brick building at South Melbourne, owned by Sargood, Gardiner, Ltd., on Saturday night…
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A BOY'S prank sent the Are engines, police, and a wireless patrol racing to Annandale last night when it appeared to residents that the Awakened by a noise at one of the front windows of his home at St. Kilda early to-day, Merven Leslie Buckley, manager of a nearby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion, Then Fire in Flat Man and Wife Are Burned
IN an explosion which hurled them from one room into another, and started a fire at Strickland Flats. Balfour St.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Street of Fire. Boys Pump Petrol Into Gutter. Then Throw Lighted Match
Residents in the neighbourhood of Johnston-street, Annandale, late last night were startled by the spectacle of a large portion of the street bursting into flames…
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TRAPPED in a blaze at the Standard Hosiery Co.'s premises, Surry Hills, last night. Top: Deputy-Chief Officer…
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During a fire at a factory in Kippax Street lost evening an explosion occurred, and a number of firemen were injured. The main picture shows the firemen sending the ladder up to enable them to pour water on to the blaze. The Inset shows a policeman busy at work…
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GOULBURN, Monday. -- Escaping from a blazing house through a window from which they dropped 15 feet to the ground, three men then caught…
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At an inquiry at the Coroner's Court yesterday into a fire which occurred in a grocer's shop in Oxford Street, Wool-lahra, on June 15, Detective Crosbie…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Basement Fire. Coroner's Inquiry. "Paper Smelt of Kerosene."
The Acting City Coroner (Mr. N. L. Sheridan, S.M., yesterday opened an inquiry into a fire in premises at 236 Oxford-street, Woollahra, on June 15. The [?]quiry was adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Narrow Escapes in Fire Weath'rboard Cottage Destroyed Goulburn
Four occupants of a weatherboard cottage in Bourke Street narrowly escaped in their night attire when a fire…
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