FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

Colonist, Volume XLII, Issue 9367, 31 December 1898, Page 4

FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

Another Hotel Burned. Narrow Escape. [Per United Press Association.] Wellington, December 30. The Tramway Hotel at Newtown, a tw:storied wooden building, was totally destroyed by fire at 2.30 tbia xnormcg. The barman discovered the outbreak, whioh originated in a s'ore.oam, and ha quickly alarmed the household : bat owing to the denee volumes ef smoke which filled the pBBJEgfs considerable difficulty web experierced in getting oat tin women. Miss Jans Fitzpatrick, the cook, lest self-control and jumped oat of an upper window on to the footpath below. She waa very much shaken by the fill and taken to the Hospital with an arm broken in two plaoaa. Most o! the inmaUs olambered on to the verandah of the hotel ani thence on to the b r;et. Ihere was a Btairvay fire escape leading to the ground, bnt the door leading to it was locked. Theie were t9n people sleeping in the hou-e ani great txoitement.'prevßiled owing to the fact that one of tho f.male biarders could not be accounted fir fcr some time. i Ihe batman had soma trouble in mooing I the liceneee'a chidreo, aa it was nece.aary , t3 enter their rooms from the outside by meana of a ladder to get them out. The flamea spread very quickly and noihiog whatever was save<7. Mrs Ryan, the litenst e, was nearly suffocated by smoke, and ahe liea seriously ili from the effeolaThe bniidiDg waß inEured for £500 in the Commercial Union Office, £250 ia the Soatb Britißb, and £250 in the National, 1 and the oontentß for £550 in the South British.