DUBLIN FIRE CALAMITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 7

DUBLIN FIRE CALAMITY.

SIX PERISH IN TENEMENT.

FLAMES CUT OFF ESCAPE.

CHILDREN'S TRAGIC PRANK.

By .Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A.and N.Z. v LONDON, Jan. 8.

• A dreadful calamity happened on Sunday night at Summerhill, Dublin. Some children were playing with fireworks in the street, and a lighted squib was thrown down into a) shop basement. It fell into an oil tank, which exploded. Sheets of flame shot up to the ceiling, and streams of burning oil flooded the basement. Within a couple of minutes the whole building was: burning and the flight of four families living in the upper storeys was cut off.

A" crowd of people gathered round on the roadway, and a number of soldiers who were present held out their coats and mattresses for the inmates to jump on to. One mother threw out her chil- : dren and they were all "caught in this way. The people living at the top of the building were too high from the ground to . jump, but the fire brigade managed to save some of them. T;

Mrs. Fennell and two infants, and Mrs. Brophy her daughter perished in the flames. Mr. Brophy is missing arid it is believed that he has been killed. When the bodies were recovered from the ruins they were quite unrecognisable.