| On Wednesday morning a fire which happily was unattended with any serious consequences broke out in some outbuildings at the rear of the premises on the Wellingborough-road occupied by Mr. Spencer, carman, &c. A little son of the occupier having obtained some matches set fire to some straw, and this flaring up ignited a large hovel, on the roof of which was stacked a large quantity of wood faggots. The wood being very dry an immense sheet of flame was quickly created, but thanks to the exertions of the neighbours , who worked away with a will, and the fact that the erection was isolated from the other outbuildings, what threatened at one time to prove a disastrous conflagration was prevented from assuming more alarming proportions. Had the flames ignited the stables and the store room, in which was stored a quantity of oils and other combustible articles, the consequences must have proved very disastrous; but as it was, beyond the loss of a large quantity of wood and the inconvenience caused by the fire, the pigs and fowls (whose houses were totally destroyed) were the greatest sufferers. |
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