A FATAL FIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 90, 15 April 1912, Page 5

A FATAL FIRE.

FIREMAN ELECTROCUTED. (Per Press Association,) Wellington, April 14. Shortly after live o’clock this morning a fire, attended with fatal consequences, broke out in a carpenter’s shop in Ellers lane, of! Willis street. While the lire brigade wore at work on the lire a ladder came in contact with a high tension electric wire. The third officer, W. 11. McLean, who was ascending the ladder, caught hold of the ironwork and was instantly electrocuted. Medical aid was secured at once, but the doctors could only say that death had been instantaneous. The carpenter’s shop was occupied by Henry Manning, who bad an insurance of £IOO on the contents, in the Commercial Union Office. The building was the property of Dalziell and Grace, and was insured with the Sun Company. A covered stairway, communicating with a room ia Manners street, carried the fire to a threestoreyed building, which was badly damaged by lire and water. lue second floor of the Manners street building was a billiard room, occupied by Richard Alexander, the first floor by the Sanitarium Health Food Company, and G. P. Hanna (signwriter), and the ground floor by Miss Cooper (florist), Walling (tobacconist), and Fred Turney (baskotware manufacturer). The ground and first floors wore damaged by water only.