FIRE AT WELLINGTON

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1368, 1 February 1905, Page 3

FIRE AT WELLINGTON

(Per Press 1 jiSVellington, laalfnigbTa^ A largo boarding house at tho£olpe| of - Russell Terraco 404 Wa=pori street,'4JowtowD, occupied a motoo man on an electnc %r, was destroyed by fire at 3.20 this \m&niog. /Thirteen or fourteen other erhpl§yees on the electric tram service, whV Were boarding with Southerland, all got -hut safely, some m «ery scanty clothmgXVNothmg was saved. Later.— The boardidfeK house in Russelk Terrace, destroyed by Are, was owned hf Sofia and occupied b\ fourteen lodgers. Spte’s % on the building was £6OO lcvhe N»w Zealand and £l5O in the Commercial anion,Sand the furniture for £2OO in tV Ai|i&n£eP He estimates his loss at £SOO above the insurance. Sutherland* had his furniture insured for £175 m the South \ British. He estimates his loss at £2OO to jg3oo above insurance. STARTLING ■ LODGERS JUMP /r°M STORY. ¥ Per Press" Ass ociaticjbj /■' WELLINGTON, last HigMr. The occupants dL Sutherland's boardi*-g-lia u so canp&fejgxp/atn how fthe fire occurred. AU the lodgers were on the late shift, with the 'electric cars, and reached home about; midnight. There Was then no sign .of hrc. _ . The inmates escaped m various stages of undress, arid not one pL them succeeded in saving any clotlijn,r * Besides losing the personal effects. h j s family, Mr Sutherland leit the sum of £3l on the table in his room. The lodgers also lost their money, as well as their clothes, hut all ap 3> cared to look on their misfortunes with a cheerful face. Some of them had the greatest difficulty ill escaping from the top flat,- and one or two had to jump from high upstairs windows' into "These" acro^feats luckily rc-sul-tori in nothing more serious that bruised legs and a cut face . a it, ~nientv 0 C ''singes on some of the lodgers -Was a striking testimony oi bow close they had been to the iirc--