BITTER COLD.
Much Suffering Caused in
New York
FIRE-FIGHTING TROUBLES,
(Received 1.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 29.
Bitter cold, which dropped in temperature from 57 vesterday to five this morning, with a 56-miie-an-hour north-west gale, has caused much suffering and hampered firemen in fighting two spectacular blazes in Brooklyn to-day. One was in a Cararsie section, where several blocks of seaside cottages, most of which were fortunately untenanted m this winter season, a seaside amusement centre, were razed. The estimated damage is 150,000 dollars. The other fire was on a Flatbush section, where four multiple family dwellings we're gutted aud nine others partly burned. Fifty families were driven into the bitter cold and 100,000 dollars damage done. Three hundred firemen fought the blaze and 30 were injured by falling walls, frost-bite and exposure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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