DUBLIN TRAGEDY
SIX LIVES LOST IN FIRE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 8. While children were playing with fireworks in a street at Summerhill, Dublin, on Sunday night, a lighted squib entered a shop basement and fell into an oil tank, which exploded. Sheets of flame shot up to tho ceiling. Streams of burning oil flooded the basement, and within a couple of minutes the whole building was burning, cutting off four families who were living above. A crowd gathered, and soldiers held out coats and mattresses. One mother threw out her children, all being safely caught. Those in the upper stones were too high to jump, but the fire brigade saved.some. Mrs Fennell and her two infants and Mrs Brophv and her daughter perished. Mr Urophy is missing. It is believed that he was killed. The bodies were not recognisable.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18757, 10 January 1923, Page 5
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