FIRE AT PENROSE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 11

FIRE AT PENROSE

MOTHER *NQ BABY SON BURNT

RETURNED SOLDIER'S CON TJNUEP BAD LUCK.

( W f»u.«»*(>B^-m?8. assocution.) AUCKLAND, 13th. November.

. A shocking affair occurred at Penrost this afternoon, when" a young married ■woman and her baby son ( were very sitfiougly burned as a result .of the ignitipn of wme benzine, which was bein| used by the mother in lighting the five, The victims of the accident were Mrs Dorothy Louisa Williams, aged dM, wife of Henry Hugh William?, stoneworker, Penro.se, and their boii, Ueoffrey, aged two and a half years. Mr. and Mrs. Williams lived with their two little sons, aged five and two years, iria two-roomed sottage in I'ernside road, between-Penrose and Panmure. Mr. Wpaffl» was busy »t Jus worfc in a nntiry not fw from the house this afternoon, and his wife W» at hornf with the two children. At about haM past 4, Mrs. WilikW M* »b^ fc, hKhtin<v the fire, and apparently had som* di&culty. According to the ttory ot thVoJdw boy, she* then hm4 , urn motor «pirit> in an effort to $et the fir, aiing. Evideptiy the flame reached a fajgw qu'ant^y of thp ipirit than wai intind<4, and disaster followed, Th, mToj'«w% tb, urterbj. of th, room alight,, and get firs to, Mrs, WiLl£n,V# clothing. The »*»«?•' man rushed outside with her clothing alight. She was seen by a paww-by, J, O'H»lkra,n, who ruihed to her assistance; "akin* off his coat and w*appan| it round h*r,.apd (thug quelling the flames. Mrs. William* was ma stat* of collapse, wi waa seen *P "ir^Hr* feed al) pw the bpdy. The el^ bfly got (?ut at the burning house mjr hurt, but Geoffrey wa^ kft in.side. Anr other map !»ppened ,}a be h^ndy at the Jjme, Peter Tps^fen, who rushed insidf and brought him out, though the little fellow Ayag alsq very badly burnetf about most parta of the body. ' Mr^. Williams a^d the ' babj were tiiifiri to a j).GJg!ib.puring house and everything possible yas 4p«? >9V iU«mDr. W. M: M'Cormick;'of Remueva, wai spilt; for, ,apd after preliminary; treatment the two sufferers were brought t? the hospital by the ambulance. - Jtfca.nwhile the house was burning fj^rpejy. The flames obtained a goo# hold right" from the commencement, iin« were/helped by a strong wind. Nothing could be done to save the house o,i' its .contents, and the buildiri| was absolutely destroyed with eyerytlijng in it, , The )iquse waß pwned by P«Fcy Winstone. ofßemuera. ■'■._•. . Much sympa|hy is felt: jn the district for the afi%ted r family/ Williams if a ' nehrne^ soldier, .^rid has. been a patient for some time in the Evelyn Fjrth Home aV'Parnell. Since leaving thjsre he had been\making. every, effort to establish'a home at Penrose. He had no insurance on his ( furniture. J>