DOG SAVES SIX LIVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 6

DOG SAVES SIX LIVES.

RESCUES FROM DEADLY GAS. 1 la the comfortable back room of a shop ( ia Upton PaTk, Tiny, a little King ( Chafles spaniel, lay on a specially prepared hsd of cushions and blankets, blinking indifferently at a group of four or five persons who sat round doating upon him. Earlier in the day Tiny had saved the i lives of six people. J Mr David Reedi is a furniture dealer with a shop in Green sfcreet nearly opposite Upton Park station. On Tuesday night he and his household retired to bed aa usual. Mr and Mrs Reed occupied one bedroom; their friend, Mrs Maud Walliams, aged 23, with her fLfteen-montWold son, another; Miss Lillie Tidmaireh, aged 19; the niece of the Reeds, and Jdris Jones, aged 17, two other rooms. Tiny slept, as usual, downstairs in the back room beneath the table. Between four amd five o'clock wn the morning a subtle deadly gas from a bmm- '1 ing -electric cable ia the street began to . permeate tne house. Tiny, feeling that something was wrong, mounted the stairs - to his master's bedroom, found the door ajar, and enteajed, and began, to whine amd howl pitifully. Mr and Mrs Reed were awakened, and the light was turned up. Tiny was in great distress. Mr and Mis Reed discussed the matter, and Mr Reed got out of bed. He noticed through the window 1 that there wais a fire engine in the street to attend to a fused electric cable which was burning on the. edge of the pavement. I Mrs Eeed immediately raaa upstairs. Bofore she reached the room, Mrs Williams j had fallen oa the bed unconscious by the side of her infant. Mrs Reed cried out to 'heT husband, amd he ran up, only to find bis wife lying senseless on the floor. He could feel fcbe gas oveipoweiring himself, but he had the presence of mind to •rush to a window and smash it, and to call for assistance to a constable in the street. Then he staggered downßtaire, semi-con-scious, and opened the door to the police. Willing rescuers were at once hard at work. Mr and Mrs Reed, Mrs Williams and her baby, Idris Jones, and Miss TidmaTeh, all of them unconscious except Mr Reed, were taken into neighboring houses, where the police rendered first-amd fill doctots could be fetched. Subsequently the sufferers with the exception- of Mr Reed, were removed to the East Ham Hospital. Later in the day they were- reported to be out of danger. — London Daily Mail.