MOTHER SAVES DAUGHTERS
Burning House Caves In After Escape
(New Zeaiana Press Association, DUNEDIN, August 30.
Clad only in their night attire, a mother and her two young daughters escaped death by minutes when a four-roomed wooden house in Blueskin road, on the main Waitati-Port Chalmers highway, caught fire early on Saturday morning and burned to the ground. Hie mother, Mrs Constance Elizabeth de Carie, saved her six and four-year-old daughters by putting them outside the blazing house through a front window. She threw blankets after them. Mi's de Carie returned to take a dress for herself from a wardrobe. found that the passage was full of choking smoke, and jumped quickly out of the same window. A minute or two later part of the house caved in. Mrs de Carie received slight burns to her hair, forehead and arms, but the children were uninjured.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 13
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