FIRES.
TIMARU October 10. At 9 p.m. on Monday the dining room and two bedrooms above in the Fairlie Hotel, which is a wooden building, were wrecked by an explosion of acetylene pas. The gas had been escaping somewhere, as it was smelt a day or two before. There was a leak apparently between the ceiling and the floor above the dining room. The structure was practically destroyed, and the furniture was damaged by falling through. All the windows were blown out. The explosion shook the whole building, and was heard all over the township. Fortunately, the explosion did not start a general fire, though a flare was coming from the broken feaspipe till the meter was turned off. No one was near except Mr Heckie, a visitor, who struck a match when entering a room, and; was cut about the face.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 34
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