TRAGIC COTTAGE FIRE.
FOUR CHILDREN LOSE LIFE. MOTHER WANDERING IN SNOW. (Received January 2. 9.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. / LONDON. Jan. 2. Four children, from 4 to 17 years of age, were killed in a fire near Huddersfield, when the cottage of Mr. Maigh, a nightwatchman, caught fire, apparently duo to an accident with an oilstove. The children's mother awoke and noticed a smell of burning. She ran to a bedroom and aroused the eldest girl, Elsie. While the mother was calling the neighbours Elsie ran back to the cottage to save her brother and two sisters. Later the four charred bodies wore found huddled together where they had fallen from an upper room when the floor collapsed. Mrs. Haigh was found wandering in the snow distracted. She was clad only in her night attire, and was badly burned and in a state of collapse.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 9
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145TRAGIC COTTAGE FIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 9
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