FATAL FIRE
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH
vßy Telegraph—Press Association).
WELLINGTON, Dec. ‘ 4
Caught by flames which were sweeping through a burning building at Oriental Bay shortly after midnight, two people made a desperate attempt to escape.
One failed, and was burned to death. She was Mrs Ellen George Watson, owner of the building in Hay Street.
A 'boarder, Walter Gray, married, forty, who was unable to descend by the stairway leaped from the third floor and was seriously injured. He was rushed to the hospital. He received serious injuries and bruises. The injuries are thought to consist of a skull fracture and fractured ribs.
The building was a wooden one consisting of two stories and a basement. The building was enveloped in dailies when a woman in the house smelt smoke and gave the alarm. The lire had its origin in the first storey and
mounted rapidly to the floor albove cutting off the escape of the two unfortunate people. Mrs Watson’s room was just above the seat of the fire. Apparently she was aroused when the alarm was .first given and attempted to make her way out by a rear stairway,- but lost her way in the darkness and smoke, and stumbled into a bathroom, where her charred body was found
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1930, Page 5
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