FIRE AT WESTPORT.
— » (By Telegbaph.) WESTPORT, March 29. The Government railways workshop and running shed, together with three locomotives and all plant, tools, and machinery therein, were destroyed by fire at 9.10 Jast night. When the alarm ■was given three locomotives were got out, but nothing else could be saved. The steam fire engines saved the adjoining shops. There was no wind or an important block of the main street would have gone. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Hands were m twenty minutes before the outbreak, but there was no sign of fire then. The loss is roughly estimated at £20,000. Traffic will not be interfered with as the engines were borrowed from the Harbour Board. Later. . The Department believe the damage will be between £2000. and £3000.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2356, 30 March 1897, Page 4
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131FIRE AT WESTPORT. Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2356, 30 March 1897, Page 4
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