DREADFUL FATE OF A MOTHER AND CHILDREN.
A;six-Btorey; building, 89' street,-New York, the'upper stories ajL which were occupied by two families^ '" while the rest was devoted tobuyfifra.'' caught fire on the morning of August lst/:-<:|artl)plomew • O'Kreefe,. the fatally burned. .-. Ann Gibbons'and her children (George, aged 1 six, and' John aged two) were terribly burned.. J|anies Gibbons, aged four, was-burned to death. James O'Keefe is: so badly that he will die. 1 . Mrs Gibbons climbed the stairway, to the roof with two children in her arms, all having their clothes burned. The'police found them on thereof with their clothes burning, the flesh coming off with the clothes. They were taken to the Hospital. After the .fire.- was extinguished the body of James Gibbonjs, a four-year-old boy, was found burned to a crisp.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 4 October 1884, Page 2
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131DREADFUL FATE OF A MOTHER AND CHILDREN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 4 October 1884, Page 2
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