PONSONBY TRAGEDY.
THE INQUEST OPENED. . MR. PORTEOUS MAKES A STATEMENT. £ST TELEGKAPB — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] ' AUCKLAND, This Day. ' The inquest on the victims of the PonL sonby fire opened this morning. k Dr. de Clive Lowe said he had never \ seen anything like the spectacle preseut- ■ .el by the bodies of the two children who " .perished. They were roasted almost to skeletons. He expressed the opinion that , they had suffered fearful agony for fif- , teen to twenty minutes. ,f, f The inquest was adjourned till 2nd ' March. Porteous, the father of the children, states he was carrying his wife and a . little girl i' his arms over the rcoi of the verandah. When ths little boy be■gaii screaming his wife struggled to go to his assistance, and in the struggle the little girl fell on the verandah, i'orteous ' dragged his wife to a position of safety, \ and then collapsed owing to his own ter- '. rible injuries. He saw the . children perish, and he believes they did not live more than ten seconds after falling. t Mrs. Porteous remains in a critical coi'dition. i The other sufferers are out of danger,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 7
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189PONSONBY TRAGEDY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 7
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