FATAL FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

Evening Star, Issue 9688, 4 May 1895, Page 2

FATAL FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON, May 4. Three occupants of a two-roomed tenement in Tory place named William Bell Patrick, his wife, and a boy two years bid, were removed to the hospital last night suffering from very severe burns. The child dm 3 during the night, and the parents are still ! in a precarious position. The door was broken open by a neighbor named Moroney with an axe, and, groping on the floor of the room, which was full of smoke, he found the man and then the woman, and lastly the' child. All were badly burned all over their bodies. The bed had apparently caught fire, biit Patrick was too seriously injured to give any account of how the fire happened. . .... Later . i'he man Patrick being in a bad way, his depositions were taken. He said that he went to bed with his child at G. 30 last night, leaving a candle burning at the side of the bed, his wife going about her household duties. Winn awakened a couple of hours afterwards he found his wife alongside him on the bed, and all were on fire. He got up to go for assistance, but remembered nothing more. He denied having been drinking. The doctors say that Mrs Patrick cannot live, but that there is a slight chance of Patrick pulling through.