BURNED TO DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 7

BURNED TO DEATH.

51 » tTWO ELDERLY WOMEN. i j s : INSIDE RAGING FURNACE, j i; BESCTJE EFFORTS FAIL | *!' i O. __ ! e ; {By TeS^rapa.—Psess AssoeS«4wffl.« j Sj. CHKISTCKCECH, Friday. j I Two eZde-rly wo-nsen were Jsanaed soi death when a fire, breaking ©art *s i3fe "m rig, to-disy, eomip-le'tely oestroyed * «si»f- ! I jsagreyed gßivanised iron hosse lined with; weed, situated in a right-of-way leading' feaff Morten Street, between Grafton' "Street and the Espßasade, Saimner, were:— **(; r| Mrs. Florence Blaekley 7 aged IS. i\ Miss Gertrßde Mctachtan, aged 56. fa The cause of the occtfereak, wMs-h ws- ; S '',veirv is tsEka-own. The Snmneir el " . Brigitie arrived two sunntes alter Es''theT were summoned, bat the hoase was ;ia raging furnace, bttramg SerseJy froEs !r;iend to end, she galvanised iron keeping jjthe beat in. I There was pJenry of waiter with wbisb jto Sight tie fire. and two leads were fused, *bat the brigades efforts were and after abQ'OS an boor the Jfeiase had been bnrned to the gy«nndi When the brigade arrived the neighibooTs informed shera that the two iwcenen were in the botse and several Xlattenspts at reseae were made witbont r jisaceess. the boose was fairly '<JielQee to other hni&lsngs. no damage was g'done to these. sj Mrs. Biaekfey and Miss Metacblan iffiwere apparently living alone, in the >iea», the former being an invalid and z 'the,latter keeping boose. Mrs. Bla<fkiey e*was the widow of Mr. Robert Biaekiey. ».'who formerly managed the Castle HOI -Istaiiexs, beyond SpringSeM, and the r,Hawkesws»i station, between Cass and, fSpxiEgfielii j