FIRE FATALITY
MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN BED. FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Waking about five o'clock this morning, to the noise of flames crackling in woodwork, James Henry Whitlow, who lives at Woodend, dashed outside his hut to find a four-roomed house, in which his brother was asleep, enveloped in smoke and ablaze from end to end. He rushed to tire door, in an effort to save- his brother, but was met by a wall of flame and, with other residents, was forced to stand helplessly by until the house was destroyed and the fire died out, when his brother, Wilfred Cornelius Whitlow was found burned to death in his bed. The brothers, who lived together on the property, enlisted in the Second Echelon and were to present themselves for medical examination today. Wilfred, who lost his life, was the elder, being 34 year§ of age.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 4
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151FIRE FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 4
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