SAVED BY FLAMES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 5

SAVED BY FLAMES

PARTLY PARALYSED WOMAN Aged Husband’s Heroism In spite of rapidly-advancing flames and dense smoke, Mr. David. Miller, aged 85, fa 1 her of the postmaster at Strathewan, near Melbourne., tawed his wife, Mrs. Mary Miller, aged 79, when a fire destroyed the post office one night recently. He rolled her out of the burning building. Mrs. Miller is partly paralysed, and she weighs more than 15 stone. Mr. Miller collapsed when he reached the garden. Unable to move, Mrs. Miller lay within five or six feet of a blazing wall until dancers from the Stra/thewan Public Hall carried her to- a place of safety. She was taken on a stretcher on a motor-truck to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 'where she was admitted suffering from extensive burns to the left leg. Mr. Cecil Rankin gave the alarm at the dance, and, with a party including the postmaster, Mr. William Miller, he rushed to the burning building. They found Mrs. Mil lei and her husband lying unconscious. Mr. David Miller wa« not burned, but. he was suffering severely from shock. As there was no water it was impossible to save the seven-roomed weatherboard building.