BIG FIRE AT GORE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13054, 23 April 1910, Page 5

BIG FIRE AT GORE.

10,000 SACKS OF CRAIN DESTROYED. (Per United Press Association.) GORE, April 23. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co.’s large corrugated iron grain store at Kelso was burned to the ground at 8 a.m. The fire is supposed to have originated m the engine-room, where an oil engine i» installed, but the cause is a mystery. A rough estimate places the damage at between .£IO,OOO and .£12,000. including the loss of some 10,000 sacks of gram, merchandise, etc. Practically nothing was saved.

The railway station, a wooden building, which lies alongside, was saved by the united efforts of the stationmaster and tiimen, though it caught fire on several occasions.

The insurance on the store is not obtainable so far.