Terrific Firs m Dunedin.
Loss of Life. [from our own correspondent.] DUNEDIN. This Day. About 2.30 this morning the most disastrous tire which has ever ocourred iv Dunedin, broke out m a building, known as Waters' Cafe", corner of Rose's building and adjacent the drapery shop. Mrs. Wilson, wife of the editor of the Qtago Witness, who, with her husband and a large family, occupied the upper portion, and of whom only two daughters were saved, one being badly injured. The place was deusely peopled, the Cafe" alone having some 25 boarders. The computation is that about 50 persons were sleeping m the block. One nan who jumped from the third story was killed. A boii t a dozen persons unaccounted for. 1 /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 884, 8 September 1879, Page 2
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123Terrific Firs in Dunedin. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 884, 8 September 1879, Page 2
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