FIRE IN MELBOURNE
INSURANCES £53,000. [ujsited press association.] (by electric telegraph copyright.) Melbourne, February 16 A fire this afternoon gutted Hency's lar>>e four-storeyed boud and free stores in Flinders Lane. The building wa3 heavily stocked with wines, beers, spirits, keroseue, and other inflammable materials, besHe3 between eight and nine hundred thousand pounds of tea, The fire started on the ground floor, and burned with tremendous fierceness. There was a general muster of the fire brigades, but they were powerless to do anything beyong saving Blogg Brothers, manufacturing chemists, another large building adjoining. Immense crowds congregated in the streets, aud the tram and vehicular traffic was blocked. In the rush of the hose-carts a boy named O'Neill was knocked down and killed. The insurances amount to £53,000.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 400, 18 February 1899, Page 2
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