BIG WEST END FIRE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 312, 23 December 1913, Page 5

BIG WEST END FIRE.

FLATS AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. j PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] i Ri 23 _i a.m.) London, Dee. 22. A fire occurred at the Pm-k Mansions fiats Knightsbridge, early in the morning. The occupants on the sixth floor were rescued by ladders. A charred body was found. It was the largest fire in tlie West End since the humin am the Carlton Hotel. AN EXCITING TIME. HEROIC WORK BY FIREMEN. (Received 23 10.30 a.m.) London. Dec. 22. The inmates of Knightsbridge wri a aicuscd by the shouts of <>nIcokers in the street. Throe maid servants in lheir nightdresses took refuge on the roof. A fireman«climbed ladders 2itt> foot high to tiif screaming women, who threatened to j.-mp unless rescued immediately. They were finally rescued singly on a swaying ladder. The two upper storeys blazed furiously. A waiter named Edwards, died when returning io rescue some inon-

A liGii-’emaid sttiies that while escaping down a corridor in suffocating smoke she heard Edwards the waiter siumb!-‘ and fall helpless. Sim dragged him until the Haines and smr.ko i vi-ipcwei-rd her and obliged bt-r to Gw him.

The fli t-mens’ heioic < fit ri* in scaling the building hold tnt> spectators spi-li-bo’.ind.