CAUSED A FIRE THIRTY MILES DISTANT

Dec 30, 1892

   It has been ascertained that the fire which occurred in Greene, Chenango county on Christmas morning, and which a loss of $28,000 was entailed was caused by the crossing of an electric light wire and a telephone wire in Binghamton, thirty miles away.

   The heavy current of the electric light wire is said to have burned out the switch boards on the telephone line between Binghamton and Greene and also in some towns north of Greene.

   The telephone wire ran into the building where the fire started, in Greene.

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