TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 25

TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING.

VXSTEI.- MAX'S LONG ORDEAL. Trapped in the a burning build- __?«„ ," P lo hls nect in ""ter, John Toope of Cardiff, was rescued alive after ■ sis hours' ordeal. _ In addition to risk of death from fire aect^T 112, hG had also been ln P erU of electrocution and gassing. He was taken to Catdm Infirma critical condition. The fire broke out in an electrical stores to St. Mary. ss t Satur(Jay ««ht. Not until the early hours of Sunday -m it got under control, and then, on thS Cellar ' the came across Toopes body standing in fire feet "water, with only his head showing He was huddled up on a pile of debris, out in S p lte of hi 3 six hourg , or _ eai he was able to speak to his rescuers C_7L Ea _r 6 3n addreSS in York stre <* Wrdiff. How he got into the cellar is at Present a mystery. The fire is believed to hare originated U the cellar, and adjoining buildings were Ig-agea. The firemen had to wear smoke I ggpets, and were roped together in their t JW-t against the flames.