AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. J •FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEAV YORK; Oct 22. The fire in a tenement house was started by a pyromaniao, early in the morning. He trapped numerous families while asleep. The flames prevented many from escaping. Besides the fourteen deaths, there were a score of injured of whom many will die. Dead bodies were found in a debris char rod, and most of them were not recognisable. The entire district terrorised, due to the fact that this culminates a series of incendiary fires within a month. (Oitlize-ns are protesting and the authorities are endeavouring to find the pyromaniac.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1922, Page 2
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109AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1922, Page 2
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