SERIOUS FIRE
FOUNDRY OUTBREAK IN VICTORIA PRISONERS ESCAPE DI KING TURMOIL (UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION* — R Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 10, 7 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 10. A disastrous fire yesterday destroyed the pattern shop at Thompson's large foundry at Castlemaine. Two hundred firemen had a difficult task saving the other portions of the foundry. While the fire was at its height three prisoners in the local reformatory scaled the high walls, slid down a drain pipe and escaped.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21419, 11 March 1935, Page 6
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79SERIOUS FIRE Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21419, 11 March 1935, Page 6
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