MAN SETS FIRE TO HOME.
SIX LIVES LOST ON FARM- . (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) REGINA, February 3. While his wife was at a party, Joseph .Tost, a farmer, set fire to his home, burning himself and five children to death. Only the fifteen-year-old Annie, who slept in the same rojin as her father, escaped. After a battle with her apparently demented parent she leaped from a window into the snow, running a mile to neighbours scantily clad i" a temperature of 30 degrees below zero. Her legs and feet were badly frozen. The other five children in an adjoining room perished in their beds.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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103MAN SETS FIRE TO HOME. Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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