It was December 14, 1917, and a Christmas miracle – and the diligent work of local firemen – prevented a good portion of the hamlet of Narrowsburg’s in the Catskills town of Tusten, Sullivan County, business district from being incinerated.
“The old and historic passenger depot of the Erie railroad at this place is a smoking mass of debris, as the result of a conflagration which swept the old structure Friday evening at 6:45 o ’clock, when an acetylene gas machine in the waiting room of the building exploded, and ignited the wooden structure,”
The Sullivan County Record reported in its December 20 edition.
