LORD ROMILLY'S TRAGIC DEATH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 25 July 1891, Page 200

LORD ROMILLY'S TRAGIC DEATH.

OUR London correspondent says :— ‘ There is much moralising in the press on the familiar domestic danger of upsetting a lamp, but it is safe to assume that had it only been the unfortunate servants of Lord Romilly who had met with this melancholy fate we should not have heard so much about the affair. Still, lam not disposed to cavil at the way in which editors have lavished leading articles on this topic. Every circumstance of the terrible accident points a new and most forcible lesson on the dangers of the household lamp.

Beyond this phase of story stands out the interesting record of the heroic rescue of one of the inmates of the house by Fireman Byne. When the flames were fiercely bursting from the second floor windows and scorching the escape he ascended and entered the third floor, bringing out one of the half-suffocated servants, at the risk of his own life. So fiercely did the flames leap up from the window below that he was unable to get back to the escape until the hose had played on the flaming window for some time, and he had to stand at the window supporting the insensible woman for some minutes while the water was having its effect. He now lies in the hospital badly burned, but proud in the consciousness of having saved one of his fellow-creatures from a terrible death.’