WESTPORT LAID WASTE.
POST OFFICE AND TIMES BUILDING WRECKED. No Casualties, but Town Isolated. A wire received by the Press Association frcpn its agent in Westport, yesterday, just after the restoration of telegraphic communication with that town, states that Westport was wrecked by & violent earthquake this morning. Business is paralysed and the town has been without communications. The water and electric services are destroyed. The Pojst Office is wrecked, and the Times office demolished. There were no casualties.
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Shannon News, 18 June 1929, Page 3
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78WESTPORT LAID WASTE. Shannon News, 18 June 1929, Page 3
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