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  2. DEATH DEALING EXPLOSION ON OIL SHIP AT PORT ADELAIDE.

    Never previously in he annals of the South Australian Fire Brigades has a more heartrending tragedy occurred in heroic efforts to save property from the dreaded fire fiend than that which resulted from the call to duty at a blazing oil ship in the Port Adelaide River on Saturday night. The steamer City of Singapore, bound from America to Australian ports, with large quantities of cased and bulk oil, had ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,828 words
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  4. CAUGHT LIKE A RAT.

    Chief-Officer Dickie, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, had the most sensational experience of his fire-fighting career immediately after the explosion occurred. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,069 words
  5. PERIOD OF THE EXPLOSION.

    The first explosion occurred just before 8 o'clock, and was followed by minor other outbursts as cased oil went up with a "bang," but all these paled into ...

    Article : 371 words
  6. ELECTRIC TRAINS CRASHED.

    An electric special train from Coventry and intermediate stations bound for Euston, and crowded with supporters of the Anton Villa Football Club stopped near ...

    Article : 411 words
  7. AMERICA EXCLUDING JAPANESE.

    Official comment upon America's immi­gration legislation is being everywhere re­pressed, but the civic and mercantile or­ganizations continue to meet and adopt ...

    Article : 231 words
  8. THE LOCALITY.

    The scene of the calamity is some distance beyond the Robinson and 'Fisher Bridges, and midway between No. 1 Quay and Ocean Steamers' Wharf. There are ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. THE ILL-STARRED STEAMER.

    The steamer City, of Singapore is, a new vessel, having been launched as recently as March last year by William Gray and Co., of West Hartlepool. The vessel ...

    Article : 546 words
  10. OFFICIAL ENQUIRIES.

    The matter of enquiry into casualties concerning oversea vessels concerns the Commonwealth Department of Navigation. It has not yet been ascertained when or ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. THE BULKHEADS HELD.

    Mr. T. W. Bland, of the Norwood station, relieved the night, staff of the brigade with about 12 men at daylight and had two motor, pumps working throughout ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 368 words
  12. PREVIOUS FIRES RECALLED.

    The last shipping fire of note on the Port River was on the steamer South Africa on August 21, 1910, when a calamity was narrowly averted, the ship's ...

    Article : 205 words
  13. PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT.

    Mr. Kaneko, President of the America-Japan Society, has sent a letter to the American Secretary (Mr. Hughes) "for the consideration of the President," ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY.

    Capt. Hambleton visited the Adelaide Hospital on Sunday morning in behalf of His Excellency the Governor to enquire after the men injured in the ...

    Article : 88 words
  15. BIG CROWD AT WEMBLEY.

    With the Wembley Exhibition u an additional attraction, provincial crowded London to-day, many of them coming to see the football cup final. Newcastle ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. ANGERED AND AFFRONTED.

    The Japanese exclusion question continues to hold the public attention at Osaka. The newspapers are fall of ac­counts of citizens' mass meetings at Kobe ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. THE DEAD FIREMEN.

    Fireman J. Anderson was working alongside his ill-fated companions when the explosion occurred, after which no trace was found of his body. So far as ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. AN INSURANCE PROBLEM.

    The fire will doubtless prove of great interest to the commercial community, at it raises a vexed question on the subject of insurance. The shed on the wharf ...

    Article : 231 words
  19. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ANXIOUS.

    That President Coolidge is attempting to work out an arrangement with respect to the Japanese exclusion trouble, which will satisfy those favourable to restriction ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. MR. J. HICKEY.

    "Jim" Hickey to give him the sobriquet, by which he was popularly known by all his comrades, was a native of Ballarat, but spent most of his years in this ...

    Article : 113 words
  21. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FIRE.

    The regulations guarding vessels carry­ing inflammsble oils are often regarded by the lay mind as unnecessarily strict; but the catastrophe of Saturday night ...

    Article : 265 words
  22. PRISONERS PARDONED.

    It was the intention of the Booth African Government to pardon certain prisoners on the occasion of the visit of the Prince o£ Wales, and that resolve will ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. THE SCENE AT DAWN.

    Thousands of people proceeded to the seaport on Sunday by train, motor, push bike, cart, and even on foot, and along the approaches to the quay where the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 607 words
  24. MR. ALBERT GREENMAN.

    Mr. Albert Greenman, who was driver of the Dennis motor fire pomp, was quite possibly the first fireman on duty to lay down bis life at duty's call. He was a ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. CREW AT SAILORS' HOME.

    So much as "possible of the crew's baggage was rescued; and, while, the officers found temporary quarters in various hotels in Port-Adelaide, the native crew were ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. AN ACT OF BRAVERY.

    The occurrence was not without an element, of distinction in the commendable bravery shown by three men in saving one of the officers of the ship. At the ...

    Article : 196 words
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