LANCASHIRE TRAGEDY
NINE PEOPLE INCINERATED MOTHER AND EIGHT CHILDREN LONDON, January 13. A mother and eight children, whose ages ranged from one to 13 years, were burned to death in a miner’s wooden cottage at Tyldesley, Lancashire. The father, Adam Tyrer, jumped from a window to obtain help, but the flames spread amazingly, and overcame the mother; who was trying to throw the children from the window.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7
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67LANCASHIRE TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7
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