The Fatal Fuel
(Per Press Association.) Chbistchukch, Jan. 30. The names of George Truman's four children burned at Balcairo are-Hilda Winifred, aged 9 years ; Mabel Eleanor, aged 8 ; Elizabeth Mary, aged 4 ; and jtmes Gilbert, aged three. They slept Upstairs in one t>ed. The bouse took fire at aboufc 10 o'clock. Truman had gone to a neighbour's house. Shortly afterwards he heard his wife screaming. He returned with two neighbours and found Mrs Truman outside the house, and the upstairs rooms on fire. He tried to get upstairs and io by a window, bat could not. The stairs and top part of the house soon fell in. Two children who slept downstairs i were saved by the mother. The house was an old one of wood, with iron and Bhingle roof. The fire is thought to have been caused by a detective chimney. It was insured « for £150 in the Alliance office. Trnman's father and brother were burned to death at Waikari nine or ten /Tears ago.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 31 January 1896, Page 3
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167The Fatal Fuel Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 31 January 1896, Page 3
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