HOTEL FIRE TRAGEDY.
♦ MOTHER AM) DAUGHTER PERISH. •
Invercargill, October 28
A fire tragedy, one of the most distressing for many years, occurred at Riverton in the early hours of- this morning. With terrible rapidity flames destroyed the old “Carriers’ Anns” Hotel, and in the conflagration the wife and a little child of the licensee, AV. Trembath, were burnt to death.
So devasting in its rapid spread through the old building was the fire that the fourteen boarders had litofrally to flee ' for their lives. Some left the blazing building by means of the fire escapes. There was no time to save property or possessions.
Mr. Trembath made his way front the upper floor oL the building with two of the children. Mrs. Trembath took charge of the other child, (but the beat, -sinoke and falling debris proved too much for her. When Mr. Trembath found that she had not followed him and the two children (o safety, he made a desperate endeavour to light back into the inferno and save them, but he was burnt about the head, face arms and hands, and could not make his way. . / .
Later, when the fire had reduced the building to smouldering ruins, the charred remains of Mrs. Trembath and the child were found in a position which showed that the bodies had fallen through when the floor collapsed. Little could possibly have been done to stop the fire spreading, for in the borough of Riverton no public fire-fighting apparatus is provided. Mr. Trembath is well known as a brilliant athlete, holder of many' trophies for running and other sports. After living in Invercargill for some time Mi’. Trembath and his family removed about two years ago to Riverton, where he look over the proprietorship of the •Carriers’ Anns” Hotel, one of the old-established licensed houses Jn the town.
Mil’s. Trembath was about 38 years old and the little girl, Moira, with whom she perished, five years old. The two other children are unhurt.
The hotel, which is owned by Mr. C. Berryman, now of the' fOorhmer•ial Hotel, Waikaia, was insured, but the amount is. not at present available. . '-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40016, 29 October 1929, Page 2
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355HOTEL FIRE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40016, 29 October 1929, Page 2
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