HARTLEPOOL FIRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 7

HARTLEPOOL FIRE

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £1,000,000: SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE HOMELESS. Preas Association—By Telegraph—Oopyirigii. LONDON, January 6. The Hartlepool fire is still blazing, after burning for pO bouts. The timber yards were two miles long. . The fire involved a terrace of 28 houses and reduced them, to an empty shell. Houses in six streets ■were wholly or partly destroyed. Bully 700 people' are homeless* Fortunately, they had timely warning, and hurried away their furniture in all sorts of vehicles. The firemen's' efforts were unable to check the fire, but they succeeded in preventing it reaching ‘West Hartlepool, which at one time was threatened. The damage is estimated at fully 361,000.000. There were no casualties.-® A. and N.Z. Cable. FIRE CONTINUES TO SPREAD EIGHTY ACRES DEVASTATED. LONDON, Jennarv Jj. The Hartlepool ; fire'' was caused by the fusing of an electric wire. The fire continues to spread. Three hundred thousand sleepers belonging tc the North Eastern Railway Company were destroyed. Hope? of coping .with the flames last night disappeared with the ignition of two tanks of creosote which were in the path of the fire. The firemen are frantically working to save the big creosote works*, which will afford a great* new hold if they become involved. So far an areas of 80 acrOs has been swept by the flames.—Reuter. BTtIE UNDER CONTROL. LONDON, January 5. (Received Jan. 6, at 8.5 p*m.) Twenty-eight fire brigades were brought to the par tie pool fire which is now under control. It lasted 27 hours and destroyed 43 tenement houses, four shops, 300,000 railway sleepers, and many thousand pitprops.