THE FIRE AT THE BELFAST FREEZING WORKS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13846, 8 March 1907, Page 5

THE FIRE AT THE BELFAST FREEZING WORKS.

! additional particulars, ' j . (Pes Uhitjd Pbess Association.! j OIIKISTCHUIiCH, March':?; • ''«*i j F c , a '' tl . lo JicKast freezing. works 1 3fuoslroy«l the brick building which accom-.i niodated the wool department, including a i|uantil.y of valuable machinery. The buildings destroyed were solidly built of brick. , , wur o,l °' w ' ll( -'h a largo quantity of wool was spread, was not so much lmroed as (lainagffil by the fall of an adjacent bride wall. I iiis struck tlio standing'-wall o£ tl>o, lower building, and ilio wliolo gablo fell in, Muttering the heaviest beams, whilo an adjacent B abl„ and tho outer wall of tlm„, buikhng- were bodily shifted by tlio crash. olllco midnight until (his afternoon menv iwre cngagcd iii cooHiifr down % ruins. ilio lire brigade belonging .to ttio works •did good service, and, in combination with »10 city and railway brigades, saved llio |Jat house, a wooden structure a'djoinin" *!? burning building.- The fat hoh.se was alight several tunos, and if it hact'isnrowl'. j«wrdi«,l •inimedia£ S0 dM "" S *"* hand"™' lu,iWins wi!l Probably bo pat in The loss will not seriously interfere with' the freezing. It affects only wool and some ot ttie bye-products. \ Tlio insurances 011 the slock in the Belfast works are not available in detail, tint they amounted to £7000. \ Tho total loss is estimated at, £10,000. ■ Jt is thought by many who wore at thk lira that incendiarism was 11, 0 cause, lmK tins theory ,s not generally accepted, as tho* •SLuT m , ,1l0 1 ."1 > 1 ,p . r *'°rey «f the brick ~,i, 11 i. a V " ' , " >-raiso t moaning business would not be likely to ehoose such a start when numerous wooden buildings on the ground altered more likelihood of success , Iho works we.ro completely burned down in December of 1888. and a disastrous firo" occurred in March of 1899 , Tho firo will probablf be made ilio sub-' jeet. ot a magisterial inquiry. It•» understood that il lo total insurances Z "? aclllnel 'y> and plant at t! fl ' cez "ig works' comes' to -56,000 L tho lines bemg thus held:—Alliance £11,000; Commercial Union, £1800' Uardran, £1800; Imperial, '£1300; London and Lancashire, £3700; Atlas, £8000; New Zealand £5400: Jvorlh British, £2000; Norwich, £«00; Farmers' Co-operative, £900; rhoDijix, £1800; Royal. £4300: South S 'v® 1 Standard. £1300; United S i°v' i^ 000; Norih Q«™wland ±»<ttU(J; and Yorkshire, £1700.