FIRE FATALITY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1932, Page 5

FIRE FATALITY

BOY BURNED TO DEATH. H . . ' ’ ’>i A BROTHER SEVERELY BURNEP4 < liy Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 16. J j Raymond King, nine years of son of Edward King of Gardiner’s Roncfji Harewood, was burned to death thfjl| morning when their house was de#s troyed by fire. J£' David King, six years of age, is ifthospital with burns to Ills hands an§| face. He was dragged through a wiij||\ dow by a neighbour, who - 'two you nil twin sisters were saved by the The father was absent on relief I (jjvorjj: Raymond wandered from his own bedroom into his mother’s and perished there. The outbreak occurred at 1 a.m. A neighbour, Mrs F. Hilton, states she saw flames leaping from Mi's Kbit’s house Ms Kng was in her nightdress, and had two little gris witu iier. Another neighbour saved the boy, David, but the other boy, Raymond, was still inside, and it was impossible to get into the house as the flames were fiercer, and blowing right across the door.

“Nothing could;-, be-.done,” said Mrs Milton. “There was'no"water, or anything that could help to fight the fire, and we were helpless. It was terrible ”