A NARROW ESCAPE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. With a wall of flame blocking tho staircase, W. G. Duggan, a middleaged man, had a narrow escape from death when his residence in Cashel street was found to be on firo early yesterday morning. He managed to get to tho window and in his night attire leaped to a lean-to building and then to the ground. The blaze originated in tho centre of a block of shops on the east side of the Zetland Hotel, and before it was suppressed the centre of the block was gutted and two shops and a residence were seriously damaged. The heat became so intense that all the occupants of the Zetland Hotel had to leave the building, as there was danger of the fire breaking through the windows. All the windows on the east side of the i hotel were broken by the heat. The damage is estimated at several hundred pounds.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 10
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159A NARROW ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 10
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