FIRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 5

FIRES.

AT ST. MALACHY'S

COURAGEOUS NUNS

Tt.ts A?i.ociatitin -TJy Tc'egniph-Copyright

LONDON, Sept. 1

There were ten'deaths through the St. Malachv-s firo. . Six hundred persons escaped. The . nuns literally dfagged 200 out'of the burning building. They also carried 'Go babies, two in each arm, from, their cote in the smoke-filled nursery, to. the staircase, whence foiir elder girls carried them .to the vard. "

CKEAT LOSS" OF PROPERTY

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 1

A fire in the Krivoirom Kherson district ofßussia destroyed ' 400 buildings," and caused 'damage to the extent of a million roubles. Five thousand persons ::re homeless and.- loodlqssv

PARLI AMEXT BUI LDINC DAM AG PI)

•Received .11.30 p.m.. Sept. "2nd. ONTAIMO, Se^t.

,'The Parliament buildings at Toronto have been partially burnt.: .The. esti'iiinLed damage is 1.000,001) dollars.

STRKET BURNT - .OUT

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, Sept. 2

. Tiiis alteruoon a lire was discovered in" -si house .Sutherland road, Marantti, owned by Mr Wallace, and (>:■- eiipiedbv Mr Grosvenor. The brigade promptly responded to t!u> summons, but 011 arrival it was fomul that owing to a lac-k of water, its services were of little use. A strong southerly wind was blowing, and the flames spread rapidly to the .adjoining house, occupied by Mr Goodwin and owned b.v Mr Alexander Aliliignn. This house, idso wa« totally" destroyed. A third house, also owiied by Mr Milium, and in the oeeimation of Mr JJ.- AlcTvinnnn, was likewise,, destroyed. The Haines were blow.n on t«: a fourth- cottage. occupied' by Mr Wiliiiims and some other youngmen-as. a bachelors' establishment.. The oivnOr of it -is Mrs Walker. This huilding 'was destroyed, and a like fate befell • a fifth house owned by Mr ]?obnrfc Martin, and occupied hy Mr F. Edmonds. The fuuriture and effects iii Mr Grosvenor s house were all burnt, but from the others I n fair amount was salvage:!. One of ATr Afilligan's houses was insnnjd for' £175 in, tJio Ce;iiiiierci- , .l Union, and the other for £'2o(l in the ,Roykl;_ Afr Wallace's for £IOO iif fh" South British, Air Walker's for £2OO in'the National, and Afr Arnrtin's for £4OO in the. Ocean. Air 0 rosvpnor's furniture was for £IOO in the Yorkshire. •