FATAL FIRE AT MELBOURNE.
A MAN BURNED TO DEATH.
A fire, attended with fatal consequences, broke out early on the morning of Wednesday, the 6th insb., in an eight-roomed lodging-house situate in Flinders-street, Melbourne. At the time of the outbreak the building was tenanted by six persons, five of whom escaped . with injuries more or lest serious, while the eixbb, Henry St. George Cole, was suffocated and burned to death. The deceased, who was 45 years of age, and unmarried, was son of aChurebvof Englatid clergyman residing.at Beading, Berk*, England, and had for three years occupied the position of under-verger at St. Paul's Cathedral. The building 'vtm insured in the Commercial Union Company for £750.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1894, Page 5
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