BURNT TO DEATH.
[by telegraph. I Blenheim, May 12. Particulars are just to hand of a shocking death by burning at Queen Charlotte's Sound. On Sunday last Mr. Isaac Landell, of Yelverton run, Tory Channel, left home accompanied by two daughters. They proceeded in a boat to Oyster Bay where they landed, and were joined by a young man named Flood. The party commenced-setting fire to scrub, the two girls being a short distance from Landell and Flood. After firing for a short time, Landell called the girls to come where he was. A strong wind was blowing at the time and the scrub was burning fiercely. In response to the summons the eldest daughter only came ; the other was caught in the flames before she could effect her escape and was burned to death. The father and Flood seeing the danger the girl was in rushed to her assistance, but when they reached her she was quite dead, the flesh being blackened and hard. Great sympathy is felt for Mr. Landell in his painful bereavement.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1278, 12 May 1880, Page 2
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176BURNT TO DEATH. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1278, 12 May 1880, Page 2
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