HOTEL FIRE
GUESTS’ NARROW ESCAPE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, December 27. While a Union Jack was flying in defiance of the flames, which shone far over the channel, a hundred disconsolate guests faced a gloomy dawn watching tho destruction of the east wing of St. Austell’s Bay Hotel, Cornwall. Many of those thus dispossessed usually stay at the Riviera, but patriotism prompted them to remain in England to spend Christmas, their reward being the destruction of everything but what they stood up in. This was not much, because many escaped in their night attire, sliding down waterpipes. Four fire brigades were soon fighting the flames amid dense smoko, while the guests shivered on chairs or settees dragged out by the firemen. The hotel was erected in 1930 in record time and will immediately be renovated.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 29 December 1931, Page 8
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