Fire—Narrow Escape.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4601, 3 October 1883, Page 2

Fire—Narrow Escape.

A fire broke out at two o'clock this morning in the centre of a block of five wooden shops in Wyndbam strert. The conflagration originated in a shop and tenement occupied by Jacobs, bootmaker. Jacobs, his wife, and two children, who slept in an upper storey, narrowly escaped. Mrs Jacobs was awakened by the bedroom becoming full of smoke, and. at the same time she noticed flames issuing from the shop window below. A neighbor, attracted by the screams, procured a ladder and rescued one of the children by the window. Mrs Jacobs, in her excitement, got out at another window,, and fell to the ground, but escaped unhurt, and Jacobs and the other child escaped by clambering into the window of on adjoining shop. The Fire Brigade succeeded in confining the ravages of the fire to Jacobs' shop, though Hare's stationery, Buckton's second-hand, and Cavanagh's grocery shops and stocks were much injured. Jacobs' stock was insured for £103 in the Standard, flare's for £2CO in the Norwich Union, Cavanagh's for £150 in the South British, and Buckton's for £50 in the .Union. The buildings, which belong to Messrs Glenfield and Mason, were burnt a j few months ago, : . • : \ Later. The block was insured in the South British Company for £10CD. The estimated loss to the building is £SCO. A patient in the Lunatic Asylum assaulted another with a broomstick today, fracturing his skull.