Fire at a Hampshire Mansion.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7715, 18 January 1905, Page 2

Fire at a Hampshire Mansion.

A fire which resulted In- the aft most total destruction of WeatbyMl >9 ihT 186 ' u 6 " l iloon < near PetenriMfe S I^ W is reß »T°n 0/1 Colonel *" "9 fi , ber 21«t n ', OCCUrred Coloiwl Le £?« 'SLSfS lives wore lost by the fire, bat t£ . si housekeeper. „n oH.-riy woman nan? od Jane Henley, who had beat ia Z% the service of the family for many '"•§ , S rs V ,l! th o roof from duett ''t °" d before she could tia "i rracued. The cook, whose name il . ■l®"' Juniped from the roof in night, ami broko bor wrist. She IiS&A removed to Winchester Ho»plUl/®1' ITie efica))o of the occupant* mat • exciting. The French gow! * new. who occupied a bedroom «f the roar of the main ptut of the STin hj!!"* 1 V° a,arw Bt 8 a.m. Her cries wore heard hy Colonel i>» who Imrnorfi. ately did what he could to root*. , the family. Hushing out of hit * ' bedroom he found the staircase' ' * burning uml tho corridor* fin«i k with smoke, and all means of «h 1 capo cut off. His (trot impulse w«« hroS oWWral, ' "«*» W nrough the flames to the chUdrens wing and found (hat part of ho house was safe. GeMta* out of a window, he scrambled*.ig!l n narrow lodge to a slack pi«j down which he slid to tho «i " .'i™ , of iJ abont mt < ««>W Sim i, slatHes, and with Homo difficulty roused tho lAahlanes, and with the nid of three of them triedi it to rnisc a heavy ladder to tSf *• Fnmch governess's window, but ifc MI and broke. Tw 0 more men a" T " sco »«, and ladder was procured, by moau* gf 4* i r I '^ l!nc,, Kovernesa waa r»- -H leased from her dungwrous position, i tho flame* having by «j|i H fi, M mxched her room Vie J M? nt«B WOK now lu-nrd calling 4£ bi-lp from a room on llk> other cMa .1 of the doorway, and she was also M rebcued by means of the ladder. J| l?»n hO ,r V ,r ,r ,Vcro ,n thebedrootna i I hev ™'lt JT " ,<te "* (tK ' h j""» c ' «»<* J { Ra«H*d accoKa to the roof mm! j| managed to clinrt) over tho sl*f«a to ■ Jj 'the ,I" r0< f >f the children's wing, M the point furthest away from tS i. Wus from this |>art that the . J| and here the house. J| keepw died. One servant at the end ; ill oi the houxe could not reach thtl ,1® roof, and triiKi to scramblo do«n» ifiß the ivy which covered the gafchw && Hie ivy gave way, but she Ml among some bushes and was prao* , ticatly unhurt. I'y the aid of UiN&.%* J' rs Mrs J -e Ho.v-l«wls. who was Isiißlrtly burat aliout the faee. and „;Si ah r nu f v^i c . h " dren ' about thirty servants, were all rea- "iS '""J- . *>° Sickly did the flatoM M spread tlwt in about two hours af> «IS tor tho alarm was raised the root 3B reii in with a crash. A memenger was despatched to Peterafleld on a W bicycle, some eigiit and a half inllw *% distant, and the IVtcrsfleld Klre Brigade arrived -about sis o'clock. ; > hut they could do no more than play on the burning building and 9 JIS prevent the flre from spreading to the children's wlnjr, a new paii«(\JSffi the house which had only beoatiMUt . some three years. 11*o mansion itself is an old one, standing ta a well-wooded park' of 000 acres, and ' * Ik In the Queen Anoe style. It con- ■ .ilj tained many fine picture* and aoiaa rich carvimg by Cibhons. Most of tho rooinfl wore waliveotted te oak, and thero was a fine Ufarmm '"<*■«! All those huw been deatroijwi, a few articles of furniture -%>ijjKr saved. The family lost all ' ttSgflH personal belongings, ly "retired