Brother's Heroism.

Waikato Times, Issue 12189, 26 September 1911, Page 6

Brother's Heroism.

TWO LITTLE BCYS SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE. Two young boys wore suffocated by ! the smoke from a fire which broke j out apparently in a draper's shop i und*r their home in Bishopthorperoad, York. The tire, which was iiiscovered by a policeman, spread with great rapidity, and escape by the staircase from the upper room? was cut off. These ! Wc r? ovcapiei! by Mrs Miller a:>a her I i ;l s- .-,,' tihr p 3 sons —James, aged I eighteen, William, aged nine, and I James was the first to he awaken- j € ' 1-y the policeman, and he roused his mother, who carried her baby to J a : ?ck I.enVoom. He then went to i hi; two younger brothers, who were sleeping in another room, and_ told them to remain near the window. Returning to his mother, he with the assistance of a neighbor who had , scaled a ventilating shaft, lowered j ha: a nd the baby by means of a j B-lii to safety. j G.-ir-.r t-ben to the ether bedroom, he found his two brothers missing, and was forced by the growing densty of the smoke to heat a retreat ar.i maiie his escape by the back twinlow. The dead bodies of the bovs were eventually found in their room.