FIRE THRILLS.
INTO FIREMANtTARMS. LEAPS FOR LIFE. LONDON, March 21. There were thrilling scenes at an early morning fire which destroyed the three-storied Corporation Hotel. Grimsby. Six of the occupants wero entrapped. The fire escapes wero too short to reach the top windows, from which Rose and Ena Drayton, the daughters of the licensee, clambered in their nightdresses. They clung to tho flagstaff on the roof amid the flames, Rose, clinging to the flagstaff with one hand, dropped her sister into a fireman’s arms after which she jumped. She fell head first and suffered concussion of the brain.
Mrs Drayton, who was badly burnt, jumped from a window and sustained a fracture of the skull, from which she died. George, the younger son, rushing to secure a rope to help his mother, was cut off by the flames, and descended by the rope, which burnt through and snapped as he landed. A maidservant jumped from a window and broke her ankle,.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 8
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161FIRE THRILLS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 8
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