GLASGOW FIRE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 July 1925, Page 5

GLASGOW FIRE.

WIND-DRIVEN SPARKS

CAUSED FRESH OUTBREAKS,

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON. July 7.

The damage caused by the lire at Glasgow is estimated varyingly from £250,000 to £1,000,000. No live s were lost. Seventy-eight flats were involved. The flames were so great that spectators were first driven back two hundred yards, and were then forced to retire still further. The wind carried the sparks and actually started a fire a quarter of a mile away from the central fire in Kelvin Halt Thus at Kelvin Grove the new Free Church was set ablaze. Firemen rushed to the new outbreak, but a! re ad v the interior was a roaring furnace and the building was completely destroyed in fifteen minutes. The church, which was relatively new, was a small rep’ica of Rheim s Cathedral. While the flames were roaring below the towers collapsed and crashed into the street. Spectators had a very narrow escape. Kelvin Had belonged to the corporation and had the largest floor space in Scotland. Blantyre Street, from which the tenants fled, resembles a war-shat-tered street in France. Not a single pane of glass is .’eft in the houses. The tenants attempted to return to collect valuables, hut the police had to prevent them. The firemen had to fight six fire s at the one time.