THE SCENE OF THE- BIG FIRE IN JOHANNESBURG: VIEW LOOKING DOWN JOUBERT STREET. The cross at the central fourth story window denotes tne place from which the unfortunate man Barnes jumped into a blanket held by the crowd 'below. The blanket, however, proved unequal to the strain of the 80ft jump, and the man was killed instantaneously. In *he street the people may be observed salvaging their goeds on the morning after the fire.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 51
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74THE SCENE OF THE- BIG FIRE IN JOHANNESBURG: VIEW LOOKING DOWN JOUBERT STREET. The cross at the central fourth story window denotes tne place from which the unfortunate man Barnes jumped into a blanket held by the crowd 'below. The blanket, however, proved unequal to the strain of the 80ft jump, and the man was killed instantaneously. In *he street the people may be observed salvaging their goeds on the morning after the fire. Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 51
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