FIRES AT WINNIPEG.
INCENDIARIES AT WORK. SERIES OF NIGHT ALARMS. WINNIPEG. June 12. Organised gangs of foreign agitators last night made repeated and almost incredibly bold attempts to burn down tho city of Wihnipeg. Fanned by a strong wind, many fires raged for five hours until drenching rain brought relief and daylight drove tho incendiaries to cover. The citizens of tho prairie metropolis spent a night of terror, and only a heroic battlo 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 the city was menaced in tho next two hours. 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 tho explosion of several liquor stills sequestered in sheds and warehouses.
Large drums of oil exploded, showering tho vicinity with burning oil and suffocating clouds of smoke.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 11
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