THREE BURNED TO DEATH
NEGROES SPURN RESCUE RELIANCE ON PRAYER NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Three followers of Father Divine, the leader of a negro religions cult, wero burned to death in a fire in a two-storey house they occupied at Newark (New Jersey). They refused to be rescued by ordinary means, insisting that prayer and faith in their leader .would save them. The fire was discovered by a lorry driver, who backed a high vehicle to within a few feet of the second storey window. Escape would have been easy and he bogged the negroes'to jump to the lorry, but they answered only with hystericallyscreamed prayers and were soon enveloped by flames.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18900, 30 December 1935, Page 5
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