NEW YORK BLAZES
(Rec. 7.50.) NEW YORK, August 13. While embers of the spectacular Coney Island blaze, at Luna Pan: were still smouldering, a fire to-day swept through the palisades of tne Amusement Park on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, putting ro flight thirty-five thousand Sunday pleasure seekers. Nineteen were sent to hospital. The fire caused one and a-half million dollars property damage. Hundreds were overcome Dy smoke. The blaze resulted from a short circuit. It was the third major fire in the New York area in three days Authorities pointed out that prolonged heat and drought made a tinder box of wooden amusement structures.
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Grey River Argus, 15 August 1944, Page 5
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