BURNED TO DEATH
YOUNG MAN’S FATE CANTERBURY TRAGEDY BROTHER HELPLESS HOUSE WALL OF FLAME (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Waking at about 5 o’clock this morning to the noise of flames crackling in the woodwork, James Henry Whitlow, who lives at Woodend, dashed outside his hut to find the fourroomed house in which his brother was asleep enveloped in smoke and ablaze from end to end.
He rushed to the door in an effort to save his brother, but was met by a wall of flame and with other residents was forced to stand helplessly by until the house was destroyed and the fire died out.
His brother, Wilfred Cornelius Whitlow, was found burned to death in his bed.
The brothers, who lived together on the property enlisted together in the Second Echelon and were to present themselves for medical examination to-day. Wilfred, who lost his life, was the elder, being 34 years of age.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20153, 24 January 1940, Page 6
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