MORWELL, Friday.-One of the worst fires ever experienced in the district swept through Jeeralang, Jumbuk, Yinnar and ...
Article : 316 wordsTwo converging bush fires swept down on Warrandyte about 2 p.m. yesterday, and within an hour razed nearly half the houses in the district. It is believed that approximately 100 were destroyed. So sudden was the onslaught ...
Article : 731 wordsIn tragic circumstances four of the children of Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson, of Kawarren, ten miles south of Colac, were burned to ...
Article : 150 wordsSweeping easterly from Launching Place and leaping across the Yarra and main road about half a mile from the Warburton ...
Article : 1,747 wordsLORNE, Friday.—Fifteen houses were destroyed in Lorne and the surrounding district. The whole town was in serious danger until ...
Article : 580 wordsOvercome by smoke when fleeing to safety before a fire which swept through the little village of Hillend, in Gippsland, yesterday ...
Article : 377 wordsWHITTLESEA, Friday.— Fires which have been burning in the timber country in the Kinglake district have revived with ...
Article : 296 wordsARARAT, Friday.-Sixteen persons are reported to be missing at Hall's Gap, which is in serious danger from two converging ...
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Advertising : 609 wordsFOSTER, Friday.- Sweeping down from Mount Leonard a fire which has been burning in Wilson's Promontory National Park for a week last night began to ...
Article : 189 wordsWhile the fire was at tis height, a little group of excited women and old men under the hotel verandah were congratulating themselves on the fact that, ...
Article : 767 wordsAt White City last night a benefit meeting in aid of the Bush Fire Relief Fund was held, with the result that £225 will be handed to the Lord Mayor's Fund. ...
Article : 61 wordsBecause of honorary service provided by the State and the City Council, hardly a penny of the thousands of pounds subscribed to the relief funds has yet failed ...
Article : 246 wordsFires beside the railway line to Mount Gambier, between Myamin and Sinclair, ignited a truck of straw on a mixed train yesterday. The crew quickly divided the ...
Article : 116 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.- Raging over several hundred square miles of country, mostly in the hills districts more than 30 bush fires to-day razed to the ground more ...
Article : 345 wordsGEELONG, Friday.- The Geelong Ladies' Benevolent Association to-day, after discussing the bush fire position, decided to provide for eight women at a ...
Article : 76 wordsHOBART, Friday.-Light rain early this morning and a heavier fall this evening have extinguished bush fires in many centres. Continuance of the rain ...
Article : 40 wordsCUDGEWA, Friday.- Burning on a front of 30 miles, a fire is threatening Cudgewa. It has destroyed two houses at Cudgewa North, and every outbuilding on ...
Article : 97 wordsFire brigades in the metropolitan area had one of their busiest days for years yesterday, when they quelled about 40 grass fires which broke out, mainly in the ...
Article : 82 wordsCollapsing while fighting the fire at Warrandyte, Ernest Shatter, aged 34 years, of Doncaster East, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital last night in a serious ...
Article : 68 wordsThe township of Walhalla was surrounded by fire yesterday afternoon, but a report received before communications with the town failed stated that it had ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 14 Jan 1939, Page 2
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