BOY BURNED TO DEATH IN STRAW CRATE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 10 August 1929, Page 5

BOY BURNED TO DEATH IN STRAW CRATE

INCINERATED BEFORE MOTHER'S EYES. FRANTIC RESCUE EFFORTS UNAVAILING. LONDON, August 9. A six-year-old boy, Percy Krossland, residing at Liverpool, was incinerated before his mother's cyos. While playing with his eight-year-old brother Harold, Percy climbed into a straw-filled crate seven fe«t high;. Harold lighten the straw and the flames shot up. Harold made frantic efforts to rescue' Percy, but the crate was too high. He then called his mother, who also was unable to reach her son. A man was hastily summoned from an adjoining shop. He flung himself at the crate which was overturned, but he was unable to reach Percy owing to the heat, and the boy was dead when the lire brigade arrived.