FIRES AT WINNIPEG.
INCENDIARIES AT WORK. Organised gangs of foreign agitators on a recent night made repeated and almost incredibly bold attempts to burn down the city of Winnipeg. Fanned by a strong wind, many fires raged for five hours until drenching rain brought relief and daylight drove the incendiaries to coyer. The citizens of the prairie metropolis spent a night of terror, and only a heroio battle by firemen, police, militiamen and citizens prevented the burning of the entire city. It was just before midnight that the first alarm was sounded, and from more than a dozen places tho city was menaced in the next two liours. The main outbreak was in the lumber yards of the Caledonia Box Company. . . The next call came from the Prairie City Oil Company’s plant, which soon was an inferno. The firemen’s work was hampered by the explosion of several liquor stills sequestered in sheds and small warehouses. Largo, drums of oil exploded, showering the vicinity with burning oil and suffocating clouds of smoke.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 175, 23 June 1930, Page 7
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171FIRES AT WINNIPEG. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 175, 23 June 1930, Page 7
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