FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE.
v (From last night's "Evening Star.") Fires almost innumerable have occurred in Dunedin and its suburbs at various times. Sometimes the damage done by the consuming element has been comparatively trifling, while on other occasions property of immense value has fallen before the ravages of the flames ; but the catastrophe of last night—or rather this morning—has had but TWO HORRIBLE PARALLELS in the history of Dunedin fires, viz., the destruction of an hotel in Stafford-street some 13 or 14 years ago, when a man named "Charlie" met his fate, and the burning of Mr. Jago's establishment some nine or ten years since, when a human being was literally roasted in the building. Rumors that a similar fate had befallen an unfortunate man during last night's fire were only too amply verified to-day, and it is now established beyond the possibility of a doubt that the destruction of the boarding-house was but a bagatelle compared with the catastrophe that attended it.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 270, 15 March 1877, Page 2
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