DISASTROUS FIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 245, 22 November 1909, Page 2

DISASTROUS FIRE.

TIMBER MILLS DESTROYED. DAMAGE £70,000. By Cable—Press Association,-Copyrignt Sydney, November 20. A large lumber fire is raging at Saxton and Binn's mills at Pyrmont. No details are to hand.

~,, ~ , „ Sydney, Later. llic hr t . at Pyrmont is now under contiol. Th e timber yards and mills wore completely demolished. Six divelliii... iiouscs and the premises of a carrvnrr company were also destroyed. The dam" age amounts to about £50,000

FIERCE AND RAPID.

GOOD WORK BY FIREMEN,

SAVE A WHOLE BLOCK.

By Cable—Press Association-Oopyrig it Received 21, 5.5 p.m. 0 Sydney, November 21. Saxon and Binn's nulls covered an area of eight acres. Of this the (Ire swept four acres, destroying enormous stacks of timber (estimated at seven million feet) and a great quantity of valuable machinery. J I ™L, fl ''V St ir- tcd the dam "g<= at 1/0,000; only £fo,ooo is covered by insurancc. Between 400 and 600 enl'loyces are rendered idle. also Sr"yed: long ' ng l ° fln » ™ Twi otl ', t ' r P r °P crt y. Wlonging to the

..i.u II, „s. (carriers) had 70 horses stabled near the outbreak. They were liberated safely after a accne of wild eldestroyed. The firemen made a good effort to save the latter The fire was on e of the fiercest and most rapid seen in the State. It was a hard light. The whole force of t£! cnous disaster, a whole block at one time appearing to bo doomed. Saxton and Binn's 600 feel, wharf and stock of timber were destroyed.