TRAGIC FIRE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 89, 24 March 1931, Page 5

TRAGIC FIRE

URGE FAMILY'S LOSS DEATHS OF TEN CHILDREN. NEW YOKK, March 22. A message from Hoiderness (New Hampshire) states that residents of central New Hampshire were shocked ftvhen a lire destroyed the home of Mr and Mrs Louis Avery, killing seven of their 1(3 children and fatally injuring three others. The family was one of the largest iu the State and was desperately pour. They lived in a little house in which they had been making a lengthy struggle against, poverty, rerusmg the aid of neighbours. The fire, occurred on a bitter cold night, The "parents and surviving children rushed out of the house thinly clad into deep snow. Then the parents returned into the burning building and tried to rescue the other children. Mrs Avery succeeded iu saving an infant daughter and the father tried to save another child in the same room, but was driven out by the flames. Six children, trapped in a loft, fell downstairs into the flames. The survivors waited till the home was destroyed and then walked through the snow and biting wind to the nearest, neighbour, some distance away, where they were suffering severely from exposure and shock.