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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fearful tragedy in Roxbur. (search)
Fearful tragedy in Roxbur. --Four Persons Burnt to Death.--The recent tenement house tragedy in New York has found a parallel at Roxbury, Mass., where a fire broken out, in the midst of a snow storm, at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and communicated to a house occupied by fifteen poor families. The Boston Journal says: In one of the rooms on the second story was the family of John Smith, consisting of himself, wife, a daughter and several sons. The father, aroused from his sleep to find the flames raging all round him, leaped from the window, but not until he had been severely burned in endeavoring to rescue some of the members of his family. The distance to the ground was about 15 or 20 feet, and he was so much injured by the fire and the fall that Dr. Streeter gives his opinion that he cannot live through the night. After the fury of the flames had been somewhat abated by the persevering labors of the firemen, some of the police entered the house through the almos