GAS EXPLESION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 5

GAS EXPLESION.

A HOTEL DAMAGED

(Ter Press Association) Timnru, October 10

At 9 p.m. on Monday the diningroom and two bedrooms above in the Fairlie Hotel, a wooden building, were wrecked by an explosion of acetylene gas. The gas bad neoni escaping somewhere, as it was smelt a day or two before. The leak was apparently between the coiling and the tloor above the dining-room, as that structure was practically destroyed and the furniture damaged by falling through. All the windows were blown out. The explosion, which shook the whole building, was beard all over the township. Fortunately it did not start a general lire, although the broken gas-pipe was flaring till the meter was turned off. No one was near, except Mr Heckio, a visitor, who struck a match on entering the room, and was cut about the - face.