BLAZE AT RICHMOND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14810, 13 October 1911, Page 4

BLAZE AT RICHMOND.

; TERROR-STRICKEN CHILD' Eft .0'" ESCAPE FROM BURNING HOUSE. ■,- ! '. :' : -'-" , - : ./' ■■ ■'■.'■'■.■:■:"•.■:■-.■.■■:■;';■.■„.■■:■..■..■.,■■..'>," .:-^;--^v^W:li' ! it#» ; THE BUILDING DESTROYED. t - ■ ■ .-, ' r- " .6 • ! The loud screams of children startled t'ha j residents of Peel-street, Richmond, about ' : - | 8.30 o'clock last evening. On the res! IV* / j dents rushing into the street they, fotmd'r k | a -house in the vicinity on fire, and that the children whose screams had '■ attractS ■ ; attention, had Escaped from the bunnW building. JM .-. The house was a five-roomed one, anft was burning furiously, great . tongues o* flame 'shooting * up] through the roof. ;'A»f!S alarm was given, and the Richmond . se©.B|" tion of the ; Grey Lynn Fire Brigade arrived on the scene. The fire had, - hb^Jllf ever, gained a good hold, and the effort*' of the brigade were confined to prevent it spreading to the adjoining building. In Peel-street there is no water laid —, so the brigade had to run a lead of Jjogg from Wamock-street, a. distance of over ' 100 yds. Fortunately there was a good, pressure of water, and with the singly lead—a second one not being availably owing to the length required—the brigade were able soon to reduce the fierceness of the flames, and. after about half-an-hour's strenuous work had the outbreakentirely subdued. Nothing of the house . I remained but the outer shell and a feW charred interior walls. V ; '" Recently the house had been vacated by this tenants, arid yesterday new-/** tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Porteoue ; Md||| family, had brought a quantity of : their furniture to the premises. ; Durino- th«' >'! evening, it is understood, / the parent*' ' went out to see about getting the remainder of their furniture to the house, *andl".£: left the children, including a girl about 16,' in the house. , One of the children ?wSjtsjß ill and y had been put to bed. Realising that their, home was on fire, the .'>oVcu'llf|l pants, including the sick child, rushedf ''.': into the. street, ;their cries being instruV mental in the alarm being raised. The?*; furniture was not insured. , The house is owned by a Mrs. Bryhan, of Gisborne, and the insurances, il anvVlfKj could not be ascertained last night.