CHRISTMAS EVE FIRE
OUTBREAK AT TRAKGIE FIFTEEN PREMISES DESTROYED. Tress .Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 23. Fourteen shops and a bote! in the business centre of Trangie. on the Dubbo-Bonrke Railway, were burned on Christmas Eve. The flames were fanned by a strung wind, and there was no fire ‘brigade. There is no organised water supply, but the residents formed a bucket brigade and fought desperately from roof to roof, but their efforts to stem the conflagration were futile. The damage is estimated at from £70,000 to' £BO,OOO. One firm lost its Christmas stock valued at £25,000. Half of the other side of the street was burned three months ago.
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Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 4
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110CHRISTMAS EVE FIRE Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 4
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