SEVEN HUNDRED HOMELESS.
TIMBER YARDS AFIRE. £1,000,000 DAMAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 6, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, January 5. The fire in Horsley and Len’s eightacre timber yards at Hartlepool is still blazing after twenty hours. The timber yards are two miles long, and a terrace of twenty-eight houses were reduced to empty shells. Houses in six streets were wholly or partly destroyed, and fully 700 are homeless. Fortunately they had a timely warning and hurried away with furniture in all sorts of vehicles. Tho firemen were unable to check the fire, hut succeeded in preventing it from reaching West Hartlepool, which was at one time threatened. The damage is estimated at fullv £1.000,000. y There were no casualties.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16625, 6 January 1922, Page 7
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