FATAL FIRE AT NELSON.
(FEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NELSON, March 4. The Royal Hotel, a three-story wooden building in Bridge street, owned by Dodson iuuFSon, E. Cann, licensee, was gutted early this morning. The flames ' in " the back portion spread rapidly. ~.■'■•'" , Some of" "the inmates had only just time to escape, and it was found later that one boarder, named Frank Bloomfield, 57, a seaman off the scow Oban, an Australian by birth, was missinc. His charred remains/were found on the floor joists. ' . ;v I , „ Insurances on the hotel were £.>OO in the Standard, office, and £100 in the Ali hance office* •
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 5
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