FIRE AT WAIPAWA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1829, 1 May 1888, Page 4

FIRE AT WAIPAWA.

-♦ TWO MEN BURNT TO "DEATH.

(pee pj&ess association.) Napier. April 29. Further particulars of firo this morning Bhow that Sheehsn and his wife and child slept on the ground flooe and only escaped m their night clothes leaving noaily £80 m mooey m a cbeit of de-iwere. Two boasdera slept up sbtlrs name 1 . Odium, a tailor, and Fiolsygon, a laborer native of Auckland From tho p-silionof the bodits when found, U is evidont they had never awakened. A man nrm d-Cooney who slept m the ruxt rorin ?r.i3 wakeuad bp a'lfllag eentitku and roiled out of bed and made fos his door aufi staggered acroJß th 9 room and fell opon his bed j be was giving himself np for lost when m swinging his arms about euffoo^ting, hla lef b hand etrnck oat and Bmaßhed a window pane. He mado one spt:n:> and burst right through the window, cutting himself badly, and lunged ontho verindah, and from there rolled on to the ground. Almost at the same time his eis'e: who occupied the next room waa seen leaping through her window, snd from eff Lhe verandah she jumped to the ground Thue all ware saved with the exception cf Odium and FinlaysoD, and their charred remains now await the Inquest,