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FIRES ELSEWHERE. RAILWAY STATION AT DETROIT. [PBRSB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] (Received 29, 12.30 p.m.) New York, Alay 28. Fire destroyed Fort Street Union railway station at Detroit. Forty-seven passengers, firemen and policemen narrowly escaped death. The dense smoke overxvhelined a score of immigrants locked in the basement. The firemen and the police entered trying to rescue them and dragged them into the open air. It is; expected all will recover. Valuable railway records were burned. BUSH FIRES IN CANADA. ALONG THE PACIFIC RAILWAY. (Received 29, 32.30 p.m.) Ottawa, Alay 28. News from St. John's (Nexy Brunswick) states that miles of iorest fires are threatening villages along the Canadian-Pacific railway, and sweeping the country bare for ten miles wide. Farmers’ homes are destroyed. There have been many narrow escapes, but po loss ot life is reported. RESIDENCE AT DUNEDIN. [I’ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! i Dunedin. Alay 29. Air. T. W. Whitson s nine roomed residence in . George street vras practically destroyed by fire this morning. The furniture was badlydamaged. The valuable library xvas saved. Some of the occupant s_ had narrow escapes. The house was,insured I'm- £s(io and the contents for £6oo.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 139, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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190FIRES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 139, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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