TRAGIC FIRE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7

TRAGIC FIRE.

LITTLE GIRLS PERISH

SYDNEY, May 26.

Two girls were burned to death when their home was destroyed by fire near the township of Guyra early, this morning. The victims were Doreen Baldwin, aged five, and her sister, Mary, aged three. The children’s father and a friend narrowly escaped, being dragged from the house just before the roof collapsed. Dlrs Baldwin and three older children were at a dance about linlf-a-mile away. A man at the dance saw the fire and raced to the cottage. He arrived just in time to save the father, Mr Herbert Baldwin, and a man named Cook, both of whom were severely burned.

CAUSED BY PIPE?

THEORY OF OUTBREAK

Received May 27, 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, May 27

The man who rescued Mr Baldwin and Mr Cook from the burning house at Gyra was not aware that tho two children were asleep in another room until Mrs Baldwin arrived, and it was then too late to rescue them.

The police believe that tho fire was caused by the pipe of one of the men setting alight the wooden wall of the room after they, had retired.