Shanghai, Apr. 27.
Shortly. before 11 p.m, yesterday, 1 coolie, in 149 Szechuen Road, jumped from the second floor onto the pavement below in an effort to avoid being burnt to death when turpentine and wax went flames in a little room of the bulld-ing, It was believed that the victim had put" the wax to melt electric stove and. then fell asleep. 'The wax caught fire and the flames spread to turpentine, 'When the man awoke, his clothes were already burning and the' flames enveloped the little room. Threatened with certain death, the unforttunate coolie opened the window and jumped down, sustaining fracture of the skull and left thigh, in addition to being badly burnt about his body. Taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital, he was given little chance to sur vive.
The blaze was extinguished by a itt boy employed in the building. He, too, sustained slight burns.
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