Fire at Imercargil.
A CHILD BUKNED TO DEATH. fBY TELEGRAPH.). (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.') Dunedin, April 27. Early yesterday morning a fire broke out m a small wooden tenement of two apartments m Port Chalmers, owned and occupied by Mr James Hoi den, fisherman. The fire had such a hold that it was impossible to save anything. When the flames were' got un.ier, the Brigade, under Mr Dobson, commenced to search among the ruins, and they discovered the charred remains of Mary Holden, aged two years. Mrs Holden states that she lay down on the bed, without undressing, alongside of the decease!, and was \va^eued by the crackling of the fi mes. She jumped out of bed and ran into the. street,.leaving the littta girl m the bi>il.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2
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127Fire at Imercargil. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2
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