TRAPPED BY FLAMES
Man’s Leap for Life
SHOPS AND HOUSE BURNED
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. WITH a wall of flame blocking the staircase, Mr. W. G. Duggan, a middle-aged man, had a narrow escape from death, when his residence in Cashel Street caught fire early yesterday morning.
In his night attire lie managed to get to a window and jumped down on to a lean-to building, and then to the ground. The blaze originated in the centre of a of shops on the east side of the Zetland Hotel, and before it was suppressed the centre of the block was gutted, and two shops and
a residence were seriously damaged. The heat became so intense that all the occupants of the Zetland Hotel had to leave the building, as there was a danger of the fire breaking through the windows. All the windows on the east side of the hotel were broken by the heat. The damage is estimated at several hundreds of pounds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 1
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