GENERAL CABLES
SHOCKING'TR AGEDY
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT-
- LONDON, Sept. 21. . A,, shocking tragedy occurred on a f arrii'/ at Duiidohald, in Ayrshire.- A party - bf mien and women engaged as potato gatherers slept in a partitioned loft, over la barn. A fire broke out at one o’clock in the morning. The occupants of the loft made a frenzied search for a small ladderway, the only means of escape, but smoke obscured the outlet, with the restilt that five women and four men were incinerated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 9
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85GENERAL CABLES Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 9
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