FAMILY TRAPPED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 12

FAMILY TRAPPED

THREE DEAD IN HOTEL BLAZE GIRL'S LEAP FOR LIFE Three persons were suffocated, and there were thrilling escapes from death, in a fire at Farnworth, near Bolton, which ccfmpletely gutted He Golden Lion Hotel, Gladstone Road. The victims were: — Mrs. Sarah Ann Kay, 86, mother of the licensee. Walter Kay, 18, son of the license*. Jane Seddon, 21, a servant giri, ■whose home is at Leigh. Mr. Walter Kay, the licensee, his wife, and their daughter Netta, maoaged to escape with their lives by jumping from their bedroom windows. Trapped in Top Storey Mr. Kay jumped first, and then caught his wife. They then saw their daughter at her bedroom window on the ton storey. She jumped also, being caught bn her father, but fracturing her arm Farnworth fire brigade was on urn scene in a few minutes. Their scaling ladders were burnt an they were placed against window* while the fumes were overpowering Police-Constable Richards and sist ant-Superintend put Entwiatlei, however, gained an entrance to I front bedroom. Brigade Chief’s Fall They discovered the body of the son lying near the bed. Near the dressing table was the body of the servant girl, who had ap parently lost her life in a gallant a» tempt to warn the son. In another bedroom the body of the old woman was found. She had beta suffocated and her body was bumedSuperintendent Entwistle, who waa in charge of the brigade, fell from the second to the first floor when the staircase collapsed as he was attempt ing a rescue.