Terrible Fatal Fire.
Por Press Association.) Sydney, April 14. A terrible fire occurred at Parkes, 264 miles west of Sydney, this morning. A large tenement house occupied by a widow named Quinn and her family was discovered to be on fire at an early hour. Mr Quinn's brother and another man managed fco escape with great difficulty, but the other occupants of the house, consisting of Mrs Quinn and five children, whose ages range from seven months to ten years, were burnt to death, also a sister of Mrs Quinn, named Perry. All those burnt were apparently suffocated first by smoke. It appeared as if escape was impossible, owing to several of the doors and windows being nailed up as a preventive against burglar..
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 244, 17 April 1895, Page 2
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