A TERRIBLE DEATH-TRAP.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 10

A TERRIBLE DEATH-TRAP.

NUMBERS ROASTED AUVBraK (special to "tots txus.") 'iiJs& I AUCKLAND, M»y &lmk Mr R. Walker, of Gisbome, wl ' o .^P! been on a short vi/sit to the 6t*leE| i related a terrible tragedy L occurred on tli© top of Telegraph on the Friday night after the e,u *?y|| quako. Some 200 or 250 people lad fjSjjs for shelter to the top of this hifl, W * l *™|l beliered they would he cafe thp ravages of the- flamce. They ««TW§i or dragged a large quantity of household bejonginjjs to thie spot, <i ' to find that they had entered a from which cscap.3 was next to ml fiblo. A precipitous cliff 400 or 500 *ffi| deep prerented them froau going; ?9fm ward, and. eventually when t3»e reached the buildings behind and a ,^ the crest of tlie hiil, they were. nlivo, despite th? mevt frantic c fi o *ffi*Sßßi •escape. Somo of them rushed f -a< *J~j||K tweon tho buriiiKig liotiice, but otWJjg who did rot tak? advantas o c f oppcrtunity cf this means of found all iuear>; cf retreat cut off- SSg| the previauA night Mr Hunt or and ..H|iß Walker had presc-d ths n'.pit on wfflj| hill, after covering themeelrc* M

■ '•* pomihh Tvith graa? anrl pieces of "Tlie rapidity with which tbo fire «n-ang up in every part of the city imScdiatoly nitvr the earthquake was re•nonei^' o ' cr f * on, ° traffic incidente. One tncfit painful of tiicss vraa witm.*«3lr Vouriy;. H p-'s-eiißer for Sydney Tγ the Moaua. Ho states that ho caw ♦tiree'nw'n 011 the roof of the Win:kor flot'l ftfre r ;t was ori fin>> Tn:>y hil(l ~o wflv of <"(.:tp". «ii(l th?y woro phot V. fl nieanj of Bavins them from tho 'torture of the slow sunl agonising dotitli that Ptarcd t'nem in tho tac-e.