Fire at Ormond.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 465, 10 June 1890, Page 3

Fire at Ormond.

A fire broke out at Ormond at about 1.30 yesterday morning, by which the stables connected with the Ormond Hotel were burned to the ground. The stables comprised about eight stalls, with a loft above> and there was a number of pigs in tho building, besides a large quantity of pumpkins. Some of the imprisoned porkers were roasted, and the pumpkins destroyed. The sparks from the burning building settled on the house of Mrs Burke and that of Mr Currie, but they were quenched without any serious damage The burning building was about a chain and a hrif from the hotel. There is nothing definite to be ascertained concerning the origin of the fire, but it is supposed to have been through want of thought on someone who had gone into the stables. So far as we can learn the building was uninsured.

Our Ormond correspondent writes later on in reference to tho above: —This morning early a mysterious fire occurred here, by which tho srables attached to the Ormond Hotel were burned to the ground. The inmates of the hotel were aroused by the squealing of some pigs (housed next the stables) which were being slowly roasted alive, but it was then to late too save the stables, and the energies of those present were directed to saving the hotel and out buildings surrounding the oue in flames. Mr Law thinks that the building was insured, but a quantity of har saddlery, horse feed and other articles stored in it were uninsured, and of course are lost to the owners.

Two or.hr houses in the township took fire, by sparks from the burning building falling on them, and with difficulty the flames were extinguished.