A WOMAN JUMPS OUT OF THE WINDOW.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 270, 15 March 1877, Page 3

A WOMAN JUMPS OUT OF THE WINDOW.

f Another casualty occurred to a young * woman named Ann Ryan, one of the ' boarders. While jumping out of the window on to the verandah, she slipped and came with violence to the ground, and was apparently so mrtct'i injured that it was deemed advisable to send her to , _ tho EDmpital. However, we are glad to ' < say that she was not seriously hurt, the ' | principal damage incurred being a slight 4 S crick iu the back. One of the girls boaed- ; I ing in the lu>ust> had her J- I t(yrWK» I'BOH ttCE HTGE'ET, 'hwlutu she had removed them: but the policu generally kept the crowd well buck, ; and under the charge of Inspector MaU > lard, did nmuli to prevent confusion, and I wim'u especially active in getting the < o 'uB> .pants of the house—some twenty iu tvutu* a place of safety. VVh.t-m the jf police lefts tlie scene of the fire, about 1 3„'}(), fc!i» boarders expressed themselves 1 ;, 3 t| l( r . ;j ;• i.".iii i:!:there was no | one ruin.i: n:it;'; r :i.'i;! ;ing at the time M the tire br>k in fact the Inspector f , V)i f i »:.•«! until he had seen Pui>, •• j..:.'e , a.i -id mau and an old ifvvoi.;;!, w1 j mii I'-, with Sergeant Major M j-' \ I.;' and -v-v< -an r. Pau , subset pieutly 9 tnw:od b.«i.siv!x '• <-! vcu i>t' safety. I 'CttfS w f.a\u.PCN"tttorsn; $ was a t wo*- s toi'(-'y building conta.iniug l--* jf rooms, owned by Mr. fctenry VVdliam.*, "{of (Javersham, ami by him let to Mrs. h M't'lu-skey. 'fiie lire appeared to Lave I lu'igiuateii ilo wnsf.airs, iu- i-he sitting-'-t»>iu or the kitchen, and was first discovered by ?tlio landlady, who, with her three children, slept in the sitting-room. _ As soon > as possible Mrs. M'O Uiskey ettected the - escape of herself and the children, and | then with all possible speed alarmed the * neighbours as to their imminent danger. j Tho origin of the tire is unknown,d>ut it fis supposed to have occurred through the .kitchen tire-place standing too close to a * boarded wall winch divided the kitchen 'from the sitting-room. Mrs. M't'luskey I was the last one to go to bed last night, i' m<l says that when she retired at nudlight all the tires were out and there was io light burning. Mr. Podds hail not much time to spare u vacating, as ats trot-sic t.s <!o.\trtK*rKt.tr f.pe-nep I'KROt'lrEC n the side fronting the boarding-house, nil his five children and wife were hurried nt as soon as Mrs. M'Cluskey gave the lariu. Th« M' Lenuie's, who lived in a cottage ti the opposite side of the burned buihiijf, also evacuated with, as much haste as ussihte, and, not a minute too soon, for ieir house, which ts owned by Mr. Inglis, } was actually on ti re, and cue ot the walls ifttnd roof were burned through.