SUSPICIOUS FIRES
AT U.S.A. CAPITOL. ' [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] AVASHINC4TON, Jan. 3. Following upon the White House fire, cabled on December “24th. enormous crowds of excited citizens gathered wnen flames swept the Supplementary House Document Room under the dome of the main Capital building. The fire offered a brilliant spectacle as the flames and smoke poured through the roof and the fourth storey windows. A general alarm brought firemen, who got control of the blaze within, half an hour after they appeared. The historic structure was threatened with the worst fire since both of the wings were burnt during the war of 1812. The damage has not been estimated to-night, but it is not believed to be great, and is due principally to water from tbo fire apparatus. Suggestions have been made fiom several sources that the proximity of two fires at Washington indicate the activities of a pvromaniae, but the rumour as yet has not been substantiated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1930, Page 6
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