British Fire Losses in 1913

British Fire Losses in 1913

GENERAL NEWS ARTICLES

As was anticipated, the serious fires of June in this country exceeded, both in number and extent, those of May, and the latter month therefore takes the lead for the present year in the matter of fire loss. No fewer than 50 fires, causing damage amounting to £1,000 or more, are included in the Times' list for June, and the aggregate loss was £442,500, as compared with £387,300 in May, and £100,600 in June of last year. Manufacturing towns in the north of England were the worst sufferers, accounting for 16 of the 50 fires, and £225,500, or more than onehalf the total loss. London had 10 serious fires, with a loss of £54,500; southern counties (excluding the metropolis), 9 fires, and 117.000 loss; Midland counties, 4 fires, and £17,000 loss; Scotland, 4 fires, loss £33,700; Wales, 3 fires, loss £25,000; Ireland, 4 fires, loss £9,800. There were, in all, 13 fires occasioning a loss of £10.000 and upwards, the heaviest losses being two of £50,000 each—a wool warehouse in Bradford, and paper mills at Barnsley. A warehouse fire at Manchester contributed £40,000 to the loss total of the month, engineering works at Blackburn £27,000, engineering works at Wolverhampton £25,000, a mansion at Balfran, Stirling, £25,000; chemical works at Clnelly £22,000, school buildings at Leatherhead £20,000, and a cotton warehouse at Oldham £20,000.