Badly Burned, But Stopped Fire's Spread
While trying to prevent a fire from spreading to valuable chemicals and gold leaf in Angus and Coote's gold-plating workroom,…
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Badly Burned, But Stopped Fire's Spread
While trying to prevent a fire from spreading to valuable chemicals and gold leaf in Angus and Coote's gold-plating workroom,…
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LONDON, April 15 (A.A.P.). Messages from places all over the world report accidents to shipping. They include collision, fire,…
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The country was a picture with its growth as the result of the winter rain. On one particular day in…
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KATOOMBA, Thursday. -- Fifteen tons of bagged lime burning on a goods train, arrived at Katoomba from the…
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KATOOMBA, Thursday.-- Fifteen tons of bagged lime burning on a goods train, arrived at Katoomba from the…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.--The Duke of Windsor last night helped to fight a fire in the Waldorf Tower, a section of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where he and the Duchess are staying…
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NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Duke of Windsor turned volunteer fireman for a few minutes when a fire swept the bedroom of Baron…
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NEW YORK, Thursday. -- The Duke of Windsor turned volunteer fireman for a few minutes when a fire swept the bedroom of Baron…
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A SMALL fire which broke out at the Tennyson Textile Mills, Tennyson, early this morning, was quickly extinguished by brigades from…
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A SMALL fire which broke out at the Tennyson Textile Mills, Tennyson, early this morning, was quickly extinguished by brigades from…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday-- Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed and 3500 injured in a series of explosions which today practically destroyed Texas City (Gulf of Mexico). The French freighter Grand Camp, loaded with 3000 tons of…
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TOKTO, Thursday.--More than 35 Japs were killed and a similar number injured when a train caught fire in a tunnel near Osaka yesterday…
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TOKIO, Thursday.-- More than 35 Japs were killed and a similar number injured when a train caught fire in a tunnel near Osaka yesterday…
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TEXAS CITY, Friday.--Fires in devastated Texas City are now under control. Debris has been cleared from the streets and the…
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NEW YORK, Friday.--New horrors are looming in the blazing, smoking ruins of Texas City, devastated by a series of great explosions. Doctors, nurses and other rescures are risking death as they carry on their work in a scene of appaling destruction…
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This dramatic picturegram shows the pall of flame-shot smoke which hangs over Texas City, where the freighter Grand Camp blew up on Wednesday and started a holocaust, which is still burning. In the foreground is the Monsanto chemical plant, which also blew up. Most of the casualties occurred in this area…
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NEW YORK, Friday.--All fires in Texas City, devastated, by a series of great explosions, are now under control, putting a merciful end to a two-days chain of disaster. Revised casualty fissures are at least 650 dead and 3000 injured. Same were victims of new…
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LONDON, Thursday.--A fire at the Royal Force depot at Harbanspura caused damage estimated at £1,500,000, says Reuter's Lahore…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.-- Authorities ordered another evacuation of Texas City tonight as fresh fires in an oil-refinery and a change of wind caused new threats to the town…
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