DISASTROUS FIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5

DISASTROUS FIRE.

STRATFORD BUSINESS AREA ABLAZE. THREE .KRSONS SERIOUSLY |' INJURED. IBy Telrijnii>h~l'ress Association. 1 ] STRATFORD, April 6. A disastrous fire occurred early this morning, destroying the largest single two-storey building in Stratford, known as ih.< Trocadrro, and containing Prebble's private hotel of about sixty rooms, also a row of shops on the ground floor, occupied by the Singer Sewing Machine agency; A. Rpache : bootmaker; and Bowater and Co.. land agents. These were all totally destroyed with their contents. ' "The premises of G. Gould, confectioner; Lane, fruiterer; and Beckett and Roberts, painters and paperhangers ,were gutted and damaged by water. Three persons were seriously injured and taken to the Stratford Hospital, suffering from burns. Six others were slightly injured by burning and two through jumping from the upstairs window. The condition of Mrs K. G. Carson, milliner, is critical, and Miss Flora Thompson, telephone operator, is also seriously injured. So far as can be ascertained the hotel furniture was insured for £3OO in the London and Lancashire, and is believed to be an insurance %I £3OOO on the building, the Commercial Union being principally affected. No further particulars are available.