MARLBOROUGH HOME BURNED
two wen have narrow escape, RESCUED FROM UPPER FLOOB, By Telegraph—Pre £S Association. Blenheim, Last Night. The Blythefield homestead,-one of th* oldest residences in Marlborough was a#* stroyed by fire at midnight on Saturday. It was a wooden two-storey structure *f 20 rooms owned and occupied oy Horgan Bros. The origin of the outbreak is unknown. , Two men upstairs narrowly escaped. One, Mr. Con Horgan, was overcome by smoke and could not reach the ladder. Vincent Horgan wrapped a cloth about hi* head, mounted the ladder and rescued hi* uncle only just in timeThe house was insured for £lOO and th* contents for
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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