A FATAL FIRE
WOMAN FALLS FRO AI FIRE ESCAPE. By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 14. Small damage, but a loss of life, attended an outbreak of fire at 4 o’clock this morning at the Hotel Oargen. The outbreak occurred in the old wooden part of the hotel where the staff were quartered. It was discovered by the night porter who set the fire alarms ringing and aroused the other inmates.
The main lounge, one room'rfnci corridor wore fairly damaged, but a further spread of the flames was prevented by the prompt arrival of the City Fire Brigade. The hoarders were in the brick part of the building, and were protected by fireproof doors. Afiss Sadie Lynch, head waitress, fell from a fire escape and was killed. The porter had got her out of her room and told her to get on the balcony. She did so, but went back to her room to recover some of her belongings, and becoming alarmed by the smoke and .Ire, climbed out of her window to the fire escape, from which she fell. A sheet was found hanging from her window by which she had apparently let herself down to the fire escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1929, Page 5
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