A DREADFUL FATALITY.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Per Press Association. London, I teeember 27. At a fire in Dixie street. Bethnal Green, Mrs Jams and nine children, whose ages ranged from JC years to eight months, were burned to death. The unfortunate victims earned a living by making matches. Most of them were suffocated in their sleep.
A curious coincidence was that tbe fa'lier died from consumption in the hospital on the day that the family perished.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 588, 29 December 1897, Page 2
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76A DREADFUL FATALITY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 588, 29 December 1897, Page 2
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