BURNED TO DEATH
MAN'S TERRIBLE FATE RESCUE WORK PREVENTED MET BY WALL OF FLAME (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 24. Waking at about 5 o'clock this morning to the noise of flames crackling in woodwork, James rjtenry Whitlow, who lives at Woodend, dashed outside his hut to find a four-roomed house in which his brother was asleep enveloped in smoke and ablaze from end to end. He rushed to the door in an effort to save his brother, but was met by" a wall of flame, and, with other residents, was forced to stand helplessly by until the house was destroyed and the fire had died out, when his brother, Wilfred Cornelius Whitlow, was found burned to death in hisbed. The brothers, who lived together on the property, enlisted together in the second echelon, and. were to present themselves for medical examination to-day. Wilfred, who lost his life, was the elder, being 34 years of age.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 10
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