Fatal Fire at Tamahere.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5046, 16 March 1885, Page 3

Fatal Fire at Tamahere.

Two Lives Lost

[Pee Pbess Association.)

Auckland, Saturday. Camp's hotel has been burned, down Et Tamahere. It was insured for £/00 in the Colonial Office, and the furniture for £500 in the same office. Camp estimates hi. loss over insura n c^6oo. his(}ay Additional particulars re tbe burning of '•• tbeTamabere Hotel showed that Camp. * the publican, was roused by two men who were riding past; when be awakened, h.« at once made for the staircase, but.when half-way down he was driven back by he flames and smoke, and waking up Ins eldest son Harry, about 16, iold him to try and save his brothers.. He• Ihen himielf got out of one of the front windows, clambered along the parapet, »nd let himself down by the amp over tho door. They then got the ladder used for • lighting the lamp, and put it to Mrs Camps'Nrindow, with great trouble, getting her and her new born baby out of the window, as also four little children. In the meantime Harry Camp got hold of one of his brothers (Willie), and carried him to escape by the staircase, which runs, up the back of the house. Here he met a man who took the child from him. Harry then faced the fire, and tried to go back and «aye his brothers-Edward, aged four and Albert, aged eleven. The flames and imoke, however,' beat, him back, and sweeping over him, forced him to jump through the flames by a window .at the back. He was, severely burned about the head and chest, and one of arms was broken. He now lies at Mr Armstrong's house in a precarious condition, attended by Dr Cushney. The ho boys, Edward and Albert, were both lost in the flames. Willie Camp was also severely burned, but is in no danger. It"«P- ---" posed the fire was caused through the ashes beine blown under the hotel from the ash pit. Camp has lost every penny, the insurance being in favour of the Building Society.