A FEARFUL FIRE.
AN JHEROIC SLATER
United Press Association.:—Copyright. Received Novemiber 20, 9.36 p.m. LONDON, November 20. Thu-by-two men perished and 32 men wero rescued, though severely 'burned, by a fire which occurred at Councillor Nickol's lodging-house in Glasgow. The ou'tibreak started in the fourth floor and spread to an attic, whence a slater named Finlay helped thence {a cripple, a blind man, aaid a -paralytic) tthrough a window ailong the roof and down a ladder from the tower of the building. Seventeen othars followed them in safety. Fifteen were found incinerated in the attic, and the rest on the fourth floor.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12658, 21 November 1905, Page 5
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102A FEARFUL FIRE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12658, 21 November 1905, Page 5
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