FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2409, 25 September 1886, Page 2

FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

.. - tt., -*£ . Shcrtlyafterlllaat ai®hl aire kob i out in a foar-*xxnad jOuttags in Wynyardstreet, wlnahwae laiasdtothegrouad. "" and one of-theino>ataa,e aoa of |fr O. B. Madden, aniiritor 'waa burnt to dwtk .' Chariae Wright waa walking aloait 3 Wynyard-amwt» oa the road heme.when ' !>• noticed a glare ia the boat window iof Mr Madden'a houae. IFwlia; a|i|«liM aura that aomething waa wrong, he raaAr> the door and knocked. Ifia came to.the door partty d r *aaed! s opaaed it, and than cliiaad it ia hia jaw in har exc&ement He aaw flimsajnaiila, and at once in tta doafllHt earned oat two children old, who wore ia their mght-dresaaa and took them to MrGampbeft'a, next door. On coming back he aaw lbs Maddaa earning round the bade of the bunas with a child in har waa 4 in a perfect treaty, feaqriag the three other children ware ia the house. On learning that one waa atill missing, aha attempted to go beck into the Samea with the child ia her anna, but Mr Wright prevented her. He waa anahle to peaetrate to the mat where tha nuasing child waa sleeping, as the whole home wal thae indamee. Mrs Madden waa in a state of hyateria, and it was found nrrnaeaij " to remove her to the Hospital ia ar cab. Aaaoou as poasihle the firemen peaatrated into the room indicated aa theone in which the missing- boy andfauad' the body of William Samuel, the thud son, aged fin yeua. The body presented atanbhi qiectaelf, but it waa dear dot the diild oould have Buffered having died in hia deep from « The oldest buy, eight years of age, atptaa ' lhat the fire atoaa fram an expleatoa of a kemarne lamp in the bedroom, which aat fire to the bcdelathea. The boy aitid that Mrs Carey had been accustomed nightly- there, and that she between 8 and 9 o'clock to aee her'named daughter, andretarned to the houaa. Hia impreanbn waa that dw had gone tu bed. The firemen made: a forth or aeaich. hat could discover no other body. .Tha building belonged to Mr Harry Bennett, and waainaured-for £l3O in the: Colankl office. There waa-no insnrsncf on the furniture. Mr Madden was dniai at hia mother's houae and knew nothing of oocurenoe till all waa over. The inqneat on the body of the child ia to he adl thia afternoon.