FIRE IN RAILWAY YARDS
SLAB WOOD BURNS I NEARBY HOUSES IN DANGER [ Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, Jan. 3. ; Fire which broke out about 9.15 ■ this evening in a stack of slab wood k I used for locomotive fuel in the Inver- /v * cargili railway yards threatened not r I only the rest of the timber and one or I two railway buildings in the yards, but | also a number of old wooden hcuses iin Liddell and Clyde Streets. I A howling gale carried sparks and I embers for hundreds of yards, and while the brigade was fighting the ! main outbreak constables and volun- ! ters kept running from house to I house dashing buckets of water on ! places where burning embers had I lodged under the eaves. I The fire was close to the railway I coal supplies, but the wind carried the 'Hames in the opposite direction. The I brigade had the fire under control by 110.30, hut the stack was still burning I fiercely.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 10
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