FIRE AT WADLESTOWN.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 5 June 1902, Page 6

FIRE AT WADLESTOWN.

The firo at Wados'.o wn, brief particulars of -which appealed in our second edition of- yesterday , broke out in a 4roomed cottage in v Janovor-street, owned by Miss Taylor, and occupied, by -uj\ Benson. Mrv P,enson came to town about 1 o'clock yesterday, leaving tbo house unoccupir.t'., H nd halt an hour or so afterwards Miv. Tver, who lived in the adjoining hou* c O u the southern side/, noticed that th/j placo was in names. She immediately g llV e tho ulurm, anc'r very iHoou tv nuraber of residents, including Messrs. 1». J. O'llegau, W. and Q. Nash, ;J. and F . Larkin, H. Tuft, and others, t wero on the spot and working energetically to remove fm-uiture from the houses of Messrs. Tver mid Shepherd,, on either tiide- «/. Uenson's. Thin thoy partially Bucccftled in doing, but Tiler's bouse caught alight, juml, togetbyjr with BensoPi'm and ll't t>>ntonts, w».B completely deployed, iiothin<; being liftf t standing but tb«. chimney hU<:b\ Tho supply of water uvailablo was too «.nall to be of much up, in putting out* the fire, but enough was obtained in buckets to sav<> Shepherd's house from almost certain drstiu c.ion. The greater part of Mr. Tver's furniture was saved, and about i 220 will cover his loss ; the house, a nix -roomed, one, owned by Mr. Taft, of the Shrlw.g block, near Eketabuna, wa» uninv u-ed. Mr. Bonson's furniture, which v« s completoly destroyed, was insured in tho Pboeuix Office for £85, and tb.«. house in the Northern Tor £150. One, side of Shepherd's house caught alight, 7 jut iho fire was put out. In this instant • about £10 or £16 should cover the dp,Tnage, and there is an insurance o£ JP,IOO in the United Office. fChe cause of tho firo is unknown.