AMERICAN MISFORTUNES
GALE SUCCEEDS BITTER COLD TWO SERIOUS FIRES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 29. (Received January 30, at 1 p.m.) Bitter cold, which dropped the temperature from 57deg yesterday to sdeg this morning, with a fifty-six-mile-an-hour north-west gale, caused much suffering. It hampered the firemen in fighting two spectacular blazes at Brooklyn to-day. One was in the Cararsie section, where several blocks of seaside cottages—fortunately mostly untenanted for the winter season—were razed. It is estimated that the -damage amounted to 150,000d01. The other was in the Flatbush section, where four multiple family dwellings were gutted and nine others partly burned. Fifty families were driven into the cold. The damage is estimated at IOO.OOOdtjI. Three hundred firemen fought the blaze. Thirty persons .were, injured .by falling walls, frost-bite, and exposure.
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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 8
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