BIG HOTEL GUTTED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3

BIG HOTEL GUTTED.

A FIREMAN KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Feilding, October 5. A big fire, e (tended by fatal results, peeurrcd here between one and two o'clock this morning. Hastie's Feilding Hotel, a. brick building which was finished four years ago at a cost of £BOOO •was gutted, only the wills being left. The fire started in an unoccupied bedroom upstairs and spread through the roof and walls. The fire brigade, with a strong pressure, confined the flames to th'- up '-lir-' portions of the building. Wh'lsl '"'iding a nozzle on the landing at the head of the stairs inside the building Fireman 1). Williamson was instantaneously killed by a chimney collapsing and falling nn him. Several other firemen were within a few feet of the spot. The insurances were: On the building, £3OOO in the Commercial t'nio:i and £3OOO in the Queensland; «a urirttnre and stock, £2Slll) in the Commercial Union. Mr. H. T. H. Crave, chief inspector for New Zealand of the United Insurance Company, was present at the fire- last night and was,' an interested spectator. If your property Is not insured cajl at or ring up the United Insurance Company, Ltd., Devoa street. Telephone 198. Webster Bros., district agents. Insurnnce effected on the most favorable terms.—Advt.