DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION IN WELLINGTON.
o — FIFTEEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED WATER SUPPLY FAILS THROUGH MAINS BURSTING. FIREMEN PUT UP A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT. DAMAGE ABOUT £100,000.
(Per United Press Association).
WELLINGTON, October 22. A disastrous fire was discovered in the Wellington Auctioneering • Company's Mart, ,near the Times office, at 3.30 o'clock this morning. The fire Rpread with great rapidity, owing to the shortage of water through the main pipe breaking.
First, the windows in the top storey of the Trocadero tumbled in, and the flames, rushing up from the little building below, crawled up to the roof, along the eaves, and thence to the rear of the Commercial Hotel adjoining.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12003, 22 October 1906, Page 5
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107DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION IN WELLINGTON. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12003, 22 October 1906, Page 5
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