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MAN’S ESCAPE CUT OFF ■ OVERWHELMED BY FLAMES B Running back into the blaxing A toria Guest House to recover his cloth® ing, Mr O. C. Anderson, of Milduraß narrowly escaped death when building was destroyed in the earlO morning recently, says the MelbournM “Herald.’’ H As he entered his room, .the closed in behind him. and blocked ttH passageway. Two men outside heaißj him hammering on the wall of room. They smashed a through which Anderson was able escape. The alarm was given by the lesseß Mrs J. Henderson, who awoke to sM| smoke filling her room, and flan®', leaping across the ceiling. |||| The seven guests lost most of th® personal belongings. The damage estimated at nearly £7OO. |||| The building was one of the old® guest houses in Mil dura.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 18 July 1935, Page 3
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