SERIOUS BURNING ACCIDENT.
WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN INJURED. FORMER FEARFULLY BURNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. ELTHAM, July S. A serious burning accident occurred this forenoon on a.farm between Eltham and Mangatoki. Some clothes were drying before a fire in a house occupiad by a share dairy farmer named Bills, on Mr Parker's property, when by some means Mrs Bill's clothes caught fire, also those of two daughters, aged four and eleven, who went to the mother's assistance. The house also caught, but the children escaped, and the mother was dragged out by a son who came on the scene, followed by the husband, and others, who had been some distance away, and did not at first observe the lire. The mother had the whole of her clothing burned on her body, and is fearfully injured, and the girls are also badly burned. Their hair was destroyed, but their injuries are not so serious as their mother's. The were brought into private in Eltham. The house and contents,' including some ''money* werei totally destroyed. The family only possess the clotheß they were wearing. I Mrs Bills has not even her clothing left. ''■■''
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 5
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190SERIOUS BURNING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 5
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