Another Fatal Fire.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1911, Page 3

Another Fatal Fire.

p — in an auckland boarding HOUSE. IVZn PREB9 ABBOCUTION.I AUCKLAND, Tins Day. Scotia House, Hobson street, owned by Mr Robertson, and occupied by Mrs C. Short and daughter as a boardinghouse, was destroyed by fire with the contents this morning. The house contained fourteen-rooms. There were two boarders. Albert Norris, agod 72 and a Maori man. The fire had a good hold, when it was discovered. Mi's and Miss Short escaped from a room on the ground floor uninjured. The fire brigade arrived promptly, but the iliouse was then in flames. A member of the brigade entered the upper rooms at considerable risk, and found Norris in a small upstairs room lying on the floor quite <Vpd, partly clothed. Evidently he had thrown on snme clothing and wxs .suffocated in attempting to es;"ipo. The Maori escaped by jumping through a glass •front-.window. IT: was ha elly cut, but otherwise was uninjured. The ihouse and contents were insured.