RAILWAY BRIDGE ABLAZE.
PICNICKERS HELD UP.
rTrT Y THOUSAND SLEEP OUT.
A TBATS CATCHES FIRE.
(Beceired 1.50 p.m
NEW YORK. June :>O. Fire destroyed a trestl* bridge connecting Eockaway Beach with Long Island yesterday. , • pjftv thousand picnickers n ho were on the beach for the day were compelled to •d-ep in the open, there being no means Of getting them hack to New York. I train crossine the bridge in the r - r lv stages "'" the blaze caught fire, but thVnane"a were extinguished before the panic started.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 155, 1 July 1913, Page 5
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87RAILWAY BRIDGE ABLAZE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 155, 1 July 1913, Page 5
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