A Shocking Fafclity.
FIVE CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, This Day. A shucking fatality occurred at Cubramatta on Saturday nipht, A storeman ( named Bonariua and his wife went to a j danco, leaving in bod their three children ( and one each belonging to neighbours , named Osborne.aud Fabies, who were , also at the dance. A lamp was burning j on tho table. ] In the middlo of the dancing a mes- ] sengcr arrived with the news that 1 Bonarius' house was on fire. When the ] scene was reached the place was a mass ( of flames. ( Gallant attempts were made to save ( the poor children, but it was found iui- , possible, aud tlio hotiso was completely gutted. 1 The romaius of all tho five children, c whose agos ranged from 6 to 10, were found charred to a cinder. Tho ouly consolation to the parents *[ was that thero was some evidence that r { they were suffocated while asleep. - r
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 229, 31 March 1896, Page 2
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159A Shocking Fafclity. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 229, 31 March 1896, Page 2
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