FATAL HOTEL FIRE
GAS CYLINDER EXPLODES
POLICE SERGEANT KILLED
SYDNEY, 25th March,
A polite sergeant was killed, five were hurt, and hundreds of others scattered hi terror when, during a fire at the Momalong Hotel, Barrigan, a gas cylinder exploded. The entire population of 2000 turned out when the five alarm rang. There were many willing helpers, but the hotel was burned to the ground.
Scores had narrow escapes. The sergeant's dog was killed beside him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 13
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