TIMBER YARD BLAZE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 11 April 1910, Page 7

TIMBER YARD BLAZE.

SPREAD WITH TREMENDOUS RAPIDITY.

[press association.! (Received April 11, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 11. The timber-yard covered about one The firs was discovered by the watchman in the feed-room. Before ho could summon the brigades it had caught the surrounding timberc stacks. . • It spread with tremendous rapidity. The whole yard appeared doomed. The brigades' good work managed to cut off and save portion of the stacks, but a large part, including valuable machinery, stables and carts, was destroyed. . . The watchman, by using his revolver to frighten them, succeeded with great • difficulty in driving fifteen horses safely out of the stables. , The bulk of the timber was stacked •only within the past week.