FATAL FIRE.
PLUCKY ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. (BYTELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchuuch, List Night. A firs broke out last night in the dwelling of C. Raphael, and before the flames were got under the building was completely gutted. Nothing was saved, and a number of valuable pictures were destroyed. The family escaped in their night dresses, but the servant, Jane Klaokmore, who was sleeping on the western side of the house, evidently did not wake. An alarm was raised and a ladder procured, and Mr McLean, of the " Press " office, entered the burning building through a window and found the girl lying on the floor pai-tly stupitied with the smoke. McLean succeeded in getting her out, and in doing si both fell on the iron roof ot a lean-to in which the fire was burning. Tho girl remained on the roof, but McLean rolled off on to the asphalt path, and was not hnr f » The girl wa? severely burned while lying on the hot roof without clothes. Medical assistance was procured, and the doctor's opinion was that she could not survive, as all her skin was burnt off.
While the fire was in full blazo annthei fire broke out in Collier's asratod water factory, which was totally destroyed,
Later. The girl Blackmore died at 4.30 this morning. Tiia insurance was £450 on the building, £500 on the furniture, £55 on the piano, and £25 on the shed, or £1,030 in all in the Standard Office. Of this amount one-third was re-insured in the National Office. There was also a special line of £500 in the Standard Office on eight oil paintings.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3043, 16 January 1892, Page 2
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270FATAL FIRE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3043, 16 January 1892, Page 2
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