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DAMAGE tentatively estimated at £300,000 has been done by a huge fire which destroyed most of the Government cool stores at Victoria Dock this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Photographs taken at the height of the big fire at the Government cool stores. Victoria Dock, Melbourne, yesterday. The stores were destroyed, and extensive damage was caused to wharves…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FEW people realised fully the dangers of yesterday's fire at the Government cool stores, Victoria Dock, said to-day the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Damage estimated at more than £450,000 was caused to-day in the most disastrous fire Melbourne has experienced for 10 years, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AN AERIAL PICTURE of the £500,000 fire at the Victoria Docks, Melbourne, yesterday. On the left can be seen the steamer Port Wellington being moved out of danger by a tug. -- Picturegram. (Story, Page 2, Col. 1.) THE SCENE at the Melbourne fire after the wind had changed and blown the flames and smoke away from shipping. -- Picturegram…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The most disastrous fire experienced in Melbourne for 10 years occurred yesterday, when the Government Cool Stores, at victoria Dock, were destroyed. The damage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen who were called to a fire in stables at Newmarket opened the boxes and released 25 racehorses. The terrified animals galloped through the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire, which is believed to have been wilfully caused, destroyed 150.000 young trees and threatened 6.000.000 others on the State pine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DAMAGE estimated at £500,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed part of the Government Cool Stores at Victoria Dock today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is suggested that the recent great Crystal Palace fire may not have been an accident. It is pointed out that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A new motor fire engine has been installed at Bulli Fire Station, displacing an engine which has done service for about 10 years. The new engine has a pumping appliance…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway authorities state that the fire on the Kowlooh-Canton express, in which there was heavy loss of life, was due to incendiarism. They say that baskets filled with celluloid…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Owing to the fusing of an electric wire, fire, broke out about 1.30 p.m. at the Government Cool Stores in the Victoria Dock. The blaze was the largest seen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire damage estimated at £450,000. Firemen and volunteers are shown trying to extinguish the fire in the Government Cool Stores, at Victoria Dock, Melbourne, yesterday. They were hampered by an inadequate water supply, and fought the flames in a temperature of 100 degrees— the hottest day this year in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →When fire broke out in a nurses' home, in which there was no fire escape, one nurse was burned to death and another was gravely injured. Several persons were rescued in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ONE of the most disastrous fires Melbourne has seen swept through the Government final Stores at Victoria Dock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charred debris, twisted steel, and pools of black water, covered with a scum of melted butter and cheese, remained this morning to mark the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A blow-lamp being used by a painter is believed to have caused a fire when it came into contact with a bird's nest in the roof of the residence of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rallying to the help of the occupants of a burning cottage in Stanhope Road, Killara, yesterday, neighbors carried into the grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Caused by a downward draught of air, thick smoke was emitted from an incinerator in the basement of the Rural Bank, Martin Place, yesterday…
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