FIVE DIE IN FIRE
LONDON JRAGEDY FAMILY _TRAPPED THREE CHILD VICTIMS (11 a.m.) LONDON. April 14. Five persons were incinerated in a fire in a three-storeyed building in south-east London early to-day. All the occupants were asleep when a fire broke out in the house, which was let as fiat? and which was practically destroyed. Firemen saved the adjoining houses. The victims were an elderly woman, a 28-year-old mother and her daughters, aged three and five years respectively and a son aged 18 months. The children were trapped on the top floor of the building when the fire broke out in .the basement. The firemen rescued survivors by smashing the top-floor windows and taking them down ladders. Several persons were severely burned and were sent to hospital. All the victims were related. Tragic figure to-day is Mr. Charles Henry Clarke who lost two of his children,' a niece, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. Mr. Clarke managed to get his wife and a one-day-old babv to safety. They are in hospital suffering from shock.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 15 April 1946, Page 3
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