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The Schwartzistan Herald · 23 January 1978

A fire in Mill Gate at Norrbruck destroys 3 houses

Norrbruck, 23 January 1978

By our staff reporter, Norrbruck. A fire in Mill Gate at Norrbruck destroys 3 houses. The volunteer brigade attend. No lives are lost. A carter who declined to give his name said: 'I have lived here 40 years and I never saw the like.'

By the next morning Norrbruck had returned to its ordinary business, the causeway being under a hand's depth of water. A carter who declined to give his name said the town had seen the like before and would see it again.

Those concerned: Norrbruck (location); Mill Gate (street).

The Grand Chancellor, Viktor Crull, was informed by telephone and made no comment.

Elsewhere in this issue: Parer Brewery lists on the Vellmar Exchange as PAR. · A storm strips roofs in Hollhausen and fells the old lime in Ferry…

A fuller account will appear in tomorrow's editions.

Read the full issue of 23 January 1978. The Evening Courier's version.

From the Herald's digitised archive. Page images reproduced as printed; the text is searchable. Dates as recorded by the Ministry of Chronology.