Fatal Fire in Dunedin.
TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH
Duneiun, May IS. A fatal fire took place on Saturday night in a three-roomed wooden house at Mornington. Mrs Stokes, wife of a laborer, bad pat her five children to bed. Mrs Stokes was in the kitchen awaiting the retain of her husband from town, when she beard an explosion, and on looking, found her bedroom ablaze. She called out to the older boy, who caught np his little brother, sleeping, and together they made their escape, but Mrs Stokes, instead of snatching the baby from the cradle, ran oat for assistance. The boy Albert, managed to escape, but his sister Amy, who was iu the same room, became confused, and appears to have gone into' the room where the fire started. All attempts to reach the two children when tbe alarm was given, proved unavailing, and their bodies were afterwards discovered very much charred.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1833, 17 May 1886, Page 3
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154Fatal Fire in Dunedin. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1833, 17 May 1886, Page 3
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