FATAL FIRE AT ROTORUA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 5

FATAL FIRE AT ROTORUA.

. * r COLLAPSE OF A KOOF AifD THE , EESULT. (By Teleffroph.-Press Association.) 1 , ' Rotorua, December 28. i Fire broke out in Goodson llros.' goods i shed shortly after 9 o'olock" Inst night. 1 When tho alarm was given the building < was in a blazo. Tho bngado'icached tho 1 scene promptly, and confined the fire to ' tho shed." A number of horses were in stalls underneath tho shed, and it was , that all-were ,taken Vbut,/but . ; .ono::was found r ln its' stall badly .burnt' ; about the :face,',ohd,ohothor : horse,' which .- wossin v a; : stalr throughout the ifire,' was E. uninjured.':;:; ..:'.;.',;v;;:-. . -; During the progress of the fire two fire- ": 'mon>nna-a'stranger went oh; the l roof of ' "a lcah-to' ! of : the. building; The..'roof fell 'in,:. apd-.tho 1 )-stranger/ ;named:.Grierson, : ';■• .was pickedup dead with his neck broken; ■. A, .fireman named;;:Chilton■■'•■; had ; : -broken'-', v «liid..S suffered 'internal-, injuries., ;, /The other -fireman;' 'named Leach, is con- ■\ fined to :hisbod; '.sufforin'g from internal ' : ' injuriea/v. ,; ?;vV'V ; '/■•■'•V■.'',-'-,■•■ : ;{ ; / '■••'-.'.•■' .'•'■:'•'"'";■ c ;It is'supposed', that the fire started'in \ .the'base';oi::the-building. ■ : ;No-one. had *. .been in the building:since Saturday.'The upper story a■large.'aroount; off oats and, chaff,-and a\ quantity ofgene'ral l . goods.wasvetorcd;. in. tho "•' lower; story;' V. Everything, .■fire-..and " .water;/..Goodson;/Bros, are,,heavy, losers,', 9 Itwas.,a' calro. : :;night, or otherwise -the' 1 .fire -must'.have ; :proved: a" very disastrous.' J one, as the,building was in' close projeimi ;ity. to:-tt..inain block of /buildings m'Fen- {' tbn ; Street.;.-The, -salvage-corps 'did good' t . work, and rescued' a wagon-load; Of ;wobi 1 whiofr the flames had roaohed.* >. -• - -:-.-