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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3132, 18 February 1889, Page 3

Jumping from the Flames.

A few minutes nfter 5 o'clock on New Years morning a. (ire broke out inja cheap lodging house on North {aLb-street, opposite the Union St. Louis, mitl in the panic that- followed among the lodgers three women leaped through the windows, Mrs Mary Wrdtty was killed instantly, and Mrs Davidson and Lizzie Durham are not expected to live. There were 30 lodgers in the bouse, and the fire, which started in the laiindry, spread with great rapidity, filling the rooms and corridors with a suffocating smoke. People rushed in from the street and began arousing tho lodgers, and the panic that followed was frightful to behold. The lodgers on the second floor jumped from tliß windows, and though many received severe bruises, none were seriously injured, The lodgers ou tho third floor were told to remain at the wiDduWß and all would be well, as the firemen were rapidly placing ladders in position for tho rescue. Tl)e women could not bo contl oiled, and Mrs Westland, who was struggling in the grasp of her husband, brake away with a shriek and leaped through the window to the slroet below. She was dashed to pieces on tho pavement Durban), an employe of the preoccupied a third-story room on tho aW* As the tongues of flumes shot uf about her window she, too, essayed the leap and struck on tbe stone pavement, fracturing her arms, legs, And ribs. She was taken to tbe hospital m a dying condition, Mrs Davidson, another employe, leaped from a window in the rear, She was mortally wounded. A minute later tho firemen rescued all on the floor, and, although there vrore Beveral narrow escapes, the casualties were confined to the women, The loss by fire was about §IO,OOO.

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