A GREAT FIRE

Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 8

A GREAT FIRE

KNITTING MILLS DESTROYED ENORMOUS DAMAGE REPORTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. MELBOURNE, July 21. Fire pitted the Lincoln Knitting Mills at Coburg. The damage is estimated ut £400,000, and 800 employees have been rendered idle. MELBOURNE, July 21. (Received July 21, at 10.25 a.m.) More than half the premises of the Lincoln Knitting and Spinning Mills at Coburg, which cover three acres and a-half, wore completely destroyed by the fire. The cause of the outbreak is a mystery. The foreman had just completed his final rounds shortly after 8 o’clock, and had locked up, when flames leapt from a far corner of the building. The foreman declared that everything there was in order when he passed a. few minutes earlier. The fire advanced so rapidly that the firemen, who were summoned from all the metropolitan stations, were _ practically powerless, and confined their efforts to stopping the flames from spreading to the administrative block. ESTIMATES OP DAMAGE. MELBOURNE, July 21. (Received July 21, at 12.15 p.m.) The estimated damage caused by fire in the Lincoln knitting mills ranges from £IOO,OOO to £5Q0,000,