RIVERTON.
Saturday.
The total loss by the late fire is now ascertained to be £10,000, of which only half is covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have originated through a quantity of uoslacked lime stored at the re?? of the building getting wet. There was no fire brigade there, but volunteers manned a private engine, and by the help of a band of 200 men, who formed a line passing buckets from the river to the fire, it was prevented from spreading to a block valued at forty thousand. The night was fortunately calm.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2830, 11 March 1878, Page 2
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96RIVERTON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2830, 11 March 1878, Page 2
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