LIFE FOR CHILDREN
Woman Trapped By Fire FATAL JUMP AFTER RESCUE Trapped with her two children in the upper Toom of a blazing dweiliiig, Mts. Eleanor iteah, aged 35, wife of Jacob Eeab, of Cherryknowle Cottage, Seaham iJarbour CounLy, Durhafn, saved the children and. tben jumped 18ft. from • bedroom window. She was killed. Awakeued by smolse and fla-nes, Mr. Reah, a platelayei on Ihe London-Norlh-cast Kailway, found the staircase iu flames. ile rau to the front btdroom to a means of escape. Meautimc .Mrs. Jteali had lowered lior children — Gwernloline, ugcd J i, und Gordon, aged (3 — from ihe back bed rt-om, window. i The children eseuped with bruises, • but wlxen Mrs. Keuh jumped, her bead struck the eement yard, and she died almost im-nediately. % Mr. lieah then jumped, and eseaped with a cut hand and bruises. Olad only iu his shirt, Mr. Reah ran barefooted a quarler of a uiile for assistanee.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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