The outbreak seems to have been [started at about 4am, in the drawing-room by a coal falling from a atate fireplace on to a carpet, which shouldered, Soon the furniture and furnishings, flooring, walls and a wooden stuireuse which leads from. the room to the second floor, became involved.
Shortly before five o'clock smoke and heat awakened Xfm:
Gsell who broke through the front bedroom window out on to a small verandah, descending thence to the: garden below. It is uncertain just what the boy, Frederic, did, but it is reported that he was " also awakened, ran out to give the alarm and returned to fetch his: father. Mme. Gsell, who will be able to throw more light on what happened, is too overcome to make Jany statement. In any case it is obvious that the boy an attempt to rescue his father, who was on the heavy side and who wa:
unusually deep sleep. The boy could have escaped with his mother, but father, and bedroom in a comatose condition. In spite of resuscitation methods ployed at the Hospital th fellow died shortly after Grell was on the floor partly rossed and had been dead for some time when found.
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