VAULT ON FIRE.
LONDON, October 17. Smoke and the smell of gunpowder issuing from a 100-years-old vault in the parish churchyard at Thames Ditton, ‘Surrey, led to the discovery yesterday afternoon of a fire among the coffins in the vault. Pails of water were used, and after the smoke had partly cleared a larger entrance to the vault was dug. Firemen descended with an extinguisher which was brought to play oil the smouldering woodwork of the coffins. The fire is said to have been caused by boys who. finding an aperture at the top of the vault, threw fireworks into it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 4
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101VAULT ON FIRE. Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 4
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