ATHABASCA LANDING FIRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13171, 3 September 1913, Page 9

ATHABASCA LANDING FIRE.

TOWN SWEPT BY FLAMES. ATHABASCA LANDING, Aug. 5. Nearly all the business section of this town haa been wiped out by fire, starting at 3 a.rn- The fire started either m a poolroom or m the Grand Union hotel. The flames swept through Strathcona street and Litchfield Avenue. The two hotels were destroyed, and over thirty business houses. Backet brigades finally cheeked the flames, but no before a total damage exceeding half a million dollars was done. Constable Blair received serious burns waking the guesta of the Grand Union hotel. The City Council this morning met and formed a relief committee.

One hundred people were absolutely destttute, and twioe as many had no place to buy a meal oar get a place to rest. The Government placed the immigration hall at the disposal of the Council, and those merchants having any goods left offered what' they had to relieve the stricken.

.. The heaviest individual ?os6r was Mike Gagnon, who lost a number of buildings worth £40,000, and all uninsured. The, Athabasca Forwarding Company's warehrvse, filled with goods consigned to the l-_.ee river, was burned to the ground. The goods were worth £10,000.

The waterworks were not completed, and only a hand-pump engine was available to light the flames except the bucket brigades. "