BURNT TO DEATH.
SIX CHILDREN' VICTIMS. MOTHER'S STRANGE STOR\. Broken Hill, June 30. A strange story of a tragedy in the interior has been related to the police. According to Mrs O'Bryan, she and her husband—a rabbit trapper—and their six children, of whom the youngest was aged six months and the eldest twelve years, lived in a five-roomed wood and iron house at Lake Cudgellico. During the night of May 1, she heard a crackling noise and detected a smell of smoke. She called to her husband, but before they could get out of bed flames burst into their bedroom. They managed to reach a passage way, when flame 3 burst around them.
Her husband, Mrs. O'Brien states, escaped injury, but she was badly burnt about the legs and body.
She endeavored to get to the children—five boys and a girl—but the wall of the room they were in collapsed and they were burnt to death.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1920, Page 10
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