FIRE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 1 September 1923, Page 5

FIRE

A MIDNIGHT ALARM. FAMILY’S UNFORTUNATE LOSS. In a raging gale at a quarter to one o'clock this morning, the tire-bell rang out an alarm, but so wild were the elements that many people close to the station failed to>bo aroused. In the ease of the iiromcn also those conditions prevailed, and out of fl total of twenty-five members only twelve mustered at the scene of the fire. Tlie outbreak w»s found to be in a small six-roomed house in 0 lando Street Extension, owned and occupied by Mr J. Stevenson with hi» wife and four children. When Mr Stevenson was roused by the fire one of the front rooms was burning, and he lost nb time in conveying the members of the household outside the building. By the time he gave the alarm at the fire station and the brigade arrived, however, two rooms were blazing fiercely. Tinder Lieutenant J, Pearce. the brigade put in some good work, running out GOO feet of hose and succeeded in confining the fire to these rooms, but they were completely gutted, and indeed the whole building was badly damaged by smoke and water, together with the contents. Very little way saved, and Mr Stevenson is a heavy loser. It is understood that there was an insurance policy on the house for £l5O and on« ojt the furni--1 turs for