FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.
OLD LADY’S SAD ESD,
Auckland, April 6,
Mrs Annie Davis, aged 70, widow of C. B. Davis, formerly headmaster of the Howick school, was burned to death in a house in Upper Queen Street yesterday morning. At 1 a.m, Mrs Allen, occupier of the house, hearing a noise in the room let to Mrs Davis, hastened to the room and was horrified to find the flames dashing under the floor. Mrs Allen opened the door and found the room a mass of flames. The woman was lying face downwards on the bed, apparently dead, and was dragged out. It was found that she had been horribly burned, lile being extinct.
The brigade soon arrived on the spot, and confined the fire to the room in which it started. The origin is a mystery, but it is supposed that Mrs Davis touched the curtains behind the door with a lighted caudle.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1230, 7 April 1914, Page 3
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154FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1230, 7 April 1914, Page 3
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