MOTHER IN FLAMES
BRAVE DAUGHTER'S FIGHT Fighting her way through a smokefilled room in the early morning, Mrs. Amy Wnllen, of Chalvey, near Slough, Buckinghamshire, found her 86-year-old mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Slade, lying boside her bed with her nightclothes in Hnmes. Mrs. Wallen tried to beat the flames out with her bare hands, burning herself severely. She and her husband, however, carried Mrs. Slade to another room, but by the time the fire brigade arrived she was dead. Firemen wearing breathing apparatus kept the flames from spreading to the rest of the house. It is believed that Mrs. Slade lit a candle during tho night and that the bedclothes were caught by tho flames.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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