FATAL FIRE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 155, 16 June 1932, Page 7

FATAL FIRE

CHILD BURNED TO DEATH MOTHER EAVES TWO DAUGHTERS FATHER ABSENT ON RELIEF \\ UKKS. By Telegraph—Press Association UhriStchuteh, June lb. Raiuiuuu Ring, me uiue-years-old ton ul Edward ox Gardiner s road, liuiuwuud, was uuiued to death this luoiiniig when the house was destroyed by me. David ixiug, aged six years, is in hospital with burns to the hand uud lace. He was dragged tuiougu a window by a neigbbour two young twin sisters were saved by the mother. the lather was absent on roller works at the tune. Raymond wandered num his own bedroom into Ins mother's and perished there, lhe outbreak occurred at 1 a.m. A neighbour, .Urs F. Hilton, states that sue saw liumes leaping irom Mrs Kiug s house. Mrs King was in her nightdress and had two little girls with her. Then another neighboui saved Dav id by dragging him through a window The other boy, Raymond, was Mill inside but it was impossible to get into the house as the Haines were fierce and blowing right across the door Nothing could be done. "There was no water or anything that could help to tight the fire,’’ she said. "We were helpless. It was ternbie.”