FATAL FIRE IN SYDNEY
FIREMAN KILLED. (United Press Association.) SYDNEY, August 27. A fire, accompanied with loss of life, occurred to-night in Adams' Hotel, which extends from Pitt Street to George Street. The lire started on the fourth floor, which, together with the third and fifth floors, was burnt out. The firemen were using a Simons extension ladder 85ft. long, worked from its own base by electricity, when the top portion from some unknown cause suddenly swung out, and Fireman Brown, who was 60ft. up, fell to the roof of a lower building, and thence to the ground, and was killed. Leanard Chappcll fell 40ft., and is in a precarious condition. A third fireman, named Dwyer, was slightly injured. The damage by fire is very heavy. A large number of inmates had to make a hurried exit from tho hotel, and lost most of their belongings. ,
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15028, 28 August 1922, Page 5
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