Fire in Willough by Street.
Shortly after, midnight this morning a fire broke out in an empty house in Willoughby street known as "Baithby and Muir's," and the property of Dr Kilgour. The building was in a perfectly untenantable state, being, in fact, a perfect shell, and the rendezvous of the loafers and larrikins of the region round about. A few minutes after the first alarm the Shortland Brigade, under Superintendent-elect Moore and Captain J. West, were at tho scene of the fire, which was by this time blazing fiercely, the roof being all on fire. A well-directed jet of water in a very few minutes began to tell, and by the time the Grahamstown Brigade arrived with their hose reel and manual engine the fire was under, and they had their run for nothing. We never saw the Shortland Brigade work better, Some little damage was done to the. furniture of neighbouring houses in the haste of removal.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3685, 16 October 1880, Page 2
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159Fire in Willough by Street. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3685, 16 October 1880, Page 2
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