CHILD BURNED TO DEATH

Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1949, Page 5

CHILD BURNED TO DEATH

Press Associaiion) .

Father Rescues Baby From Blazing House

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HAMILTON, June 24. A boy, ■ aged two years, was , burned to death last night at Horsham Downs when the cottage in wnich he was sleep'ing was destroyi ed by fire:. ,A baby ghl, aged eight • months, wh.o was also sleepjng in - ,th.e house, " .wqs rescued 'by her parents, . . The vietim. was: William David Poole, son of Mr.- and Mrs. Freeman i William P.oole,' o.f Boyd's Road, ; Horsham Downs. v- . ML Poole,- who .is a" farmhand employed on Mr. A. C. Boydfe farm, : oceupied a four-roomed cottage; with his wife and j-two children. : About 10,20. p,m„ M.r, Poole wejfi by car to the Horsham Downs hail to eoliect his wife and several people, When he left his son was sleeping in his cot in a bedr.oom next to the kitchen. The baby girl, Caroiyh, was sleeping in a basin--ette in the sitting-room. Returnlng from the hafi just after 1.0.30 p.m., Mr, Poole noticed from the top of a rise that the cottage was ablaze. , Rescue Inmossible. The . room in, which the boy was 1 lying was burning fiercely. . . Mr. Poole broke a window in the ; sitting-room and rescued the baby girl, -but -there was no hope of getting into the bedroom which the boy was occupying. No water was ayailable to fight | the fire, whjch, it is helieved, had; its origin at the bac^ of a stove. '