FOUR CHILDREN DEAD.
HEROIC SISTER. GIVES HER, LIFI
TRAGEDY AT COTTAGE FIRE.
BY CABLE-PRESS AJiSO-'T AITON—COPYRIGHT
LONDON, Jan. 2
Four children, aged four to seventeen years, were killed in a fire near Huddersfield, when a cottage occupied by Haigh, a nightwatchman, caught fire, apparently through an accident to an oil stove.
The mother awoke and noticed the smell of burning. She ran into a bedroom and awoke the eldest givi, Elsie. While the mother was calling the neighbours Elsie ran back into the cottage to save her brother and sisters. Later their four charred bodies were found huddled together. They had fallen from the upper room when the floor collapsed. ,Mrs Haigh was found wandering in the snow iu a distracted condition, clad only in night attire and badly burnt. She was in a state of collapse.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 January 1928, Page 5
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