Creston Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2013-10-04
issued: 1931-11-06
description: All the News of the Creston District
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note: V6l.^XXIII CRESTON. B. C,. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1931 1 I. ft' * m ������ r iS 1 oUU I _ 13. I. '* I I. .. ��������������� So , E. e 'Co> ys n _a IT I_PM_ fl _ a *������s^ iva Blaze Well Under Way Before Detected but Two Other Gars Saved���������Fire Origin Mystery��������� Short Circuit Suggested, The garage and Nash car belonging to A. E. I>aviea, general road foreman, were completely destroyed by fire at an early hour Thursday morning. Autos owned byH. W. McLaren and K. Thomson, and quartered in an old shed alongside the Bavies garage, were saved, the McLaren Ford being got out of the burning building just a minute before It was ���������nveSoped in names. The Davies garage is on his own. property and is within a foot of the other structure which is at the rear of the former Trotter place on Hillside Road. The blaze was _lrsS *������-*��������������� 4*������������**������.<5 arm _vvjiw������M ��������� little after 4 a.m. by Gladys Davies, who was awakened by ihe glare on her bedroom window, and she immediately awakened the household and got word of the fire to Mr. McLaren and Mr. Thomson, who live close by, as well as having an alarm turned in. The fare originated in the Davies building and had gained such headway that it was impossible to get at the Davies car, and efforts were directed to getting out the other two. The fee brigade responded with the chemical ������ngt_^;and^h^.^t^|^hu3dii^was tcfo' far gone to make ahyiise of , the v������quip ment. Just how the fire occurred is of course a mystery. The theory is advanced of a short circuit In the Davies auto, hut as this was put away before rnidnigh and the fee did not take place until at least four o'clock, the. interval of time seems too great to admit of the short circuit claim. Incidentally the fire was at the front of the car when the first spectators arrived. The car, it is stated, is the property of the provincial public works department. This is the second mysterious fire of the same sort; A couple of …
note: Print Run: 1909-1983 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Creston (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0174681
language: English
lat: 49.0975
long: -116.5130560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Creston, B.C. : Creston Printing and Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text