FATAL FIRE AT FEILDING.
HOTEL DESTROYED—A FIREMAN
KILLED
ri’KK. Prkss Association. I FEILDING, October 5
A big fire, attended with fatal results, occurred here between 1 and 2 o’clock this morning. Hastie’s Feilding Hotel, a brick building, finished four years ago, at a cost of £BOOO, was gutted, leaving the walls standing. The fire started in an unoccupied bedrcom upstairs, and spread through the roof and walls.
The Fire Brigade, with a strong pressure of water, confined the flames to the upstairs portion. Whilst holding a nozzle on the landing at the head of the stairs inside the building, Fireman D. Williamson was instantaneously killed by a chimney collapsing and falling on him. Several other men, including Superintendent Saywell, were within a few feet of the spot. The insurances are: On the building £3OOO in the Commercial Union, £3OOO in the Queensland Office; on the furniture and stock, £2BOO in the Commercial Union.
Mr. H. T. Grave, chief inspector for New Zealand, of the United Insurance Company, was present at the fire last night, ancl was an interested spectator. [The hotel just burned was built on the site of another one, also known as Hastie’s Hotel, and also destroyed by fire.j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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201FATAL FIRE AT FEILDING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2625, 6 October 1909, Page 5
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