FATAL FIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 63, 3 August 1914, Page 4

FATAL FIRE.

INQUEST AT BLUFF. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. The inquest on "the remains of th<three victims of the Club Hotel fire was 'held at Bluff on Saturday. The evidence of John Kerrigan, the licensee i showed that all was safe when he retired at 11.40. The electric light was m perfect order, and there was no si->n of fire. A little later he was awakened oy Ins wife, and made a si-arch; but could not find any fire, but a little lat'-r lie saw signs of smoke in the passageway. All the inmates were accounted for except three.

James Torrance, a medical practitioner, deposed to examining three seriarate remains of human bodies. One parcel of bones appeared to be, tlhe !P mains of a heavier man than the others presumably of Butcher. He knew But-' cher but had never seen Brook to Is knowledge. T he bones were certain!, those of adults. There was a?S lof the trunk of one of the victims but ! bones ™* *"* ° Dly of "^ The coroner found—"That the tin-™ taed, John Thomas Brook. Mk Butcher and Peter Monsen, los their Ihfth I '°r ! ', bran « Sllfr °™ted in a fire wnej took place on July 29, of which lie there was no evidence to show how ;i-x B T" irc i d i,c s i g that the remains found in the debris »crc. those of the three persons namcj'