FOUR CHILDREN KILLED.
TRAGIC FIRE NEAR HUDDERSFIELD. (b-s cable—phess association—coptbioht.) (australian and n.z. cable association.) (Received "January 2nd, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 2. Four children aged from four years to seventeen were killed in a fire near Huddersfield when a cottage occupied by a man named Haigh, a nightwatchman, caught tire, apparently through an accident to an oil stoxe. Tho mother awoke and noticed a smell of burning. She ran into a bedroom and awoke the eldest girl Elsie. While the mother was calling the neighbours Elsie ran back into the cottage to save her brother and sisters. Later four charred bodies were found huddled together. They had fallen from an upper room when the floor collapsed. Mrs Haigh was found wandering in the snow in a distracted condition clad only in her night attire. She was badly burned and was in a state of qpllapse.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19198, 3 January 1928, Page 11
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