The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-05 00:00:00

FIRES.

On Saturday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, a
fire broke out in a lodging house kept by a person named
Allen, No. 45, Wentworth-street, Whitechapel. After
the fire was discovered, it was ascertained that a poor old
woman, named Dickson, who has been bed-ridden for some
years, was in bed when the flames first broke out, and a
man, named Thomas Moore, residing next door, in the
most heroic manner rushed through the flames at the abso-
lute risk of his own life, and carried the poor woman down
stairs in his arms. In accomplishing this, Moore himself
sustained considerable injuries, his eyebrows were singed off,
his hair in flames, when he had reached the street, and his
hands so dreadfully burned that it will be some time before
he can leave the London Hospital. The unfortunate
woman presented the most appaling spectacle, but, though
the flesh in many parts of her body was quite burned, life
still remained for about two hours, when death terminated
her dreadful sufferings.
Another fire was discovered in the dwelling-house of Mr.
John Edward Brown, No. 8, York-street, Baker-street,
Portman-square, between four and five o'clock on Sunday
afternoon ; but, owing to the quick arrival of the engines
and firemen from Bedfordbury, the fire was confined to the
lower part of the premises.
About the same time the neighbourhood of Conduit-
street, Regent-street, was thrown into great alarm by a fire
being discovered in the premises belonging to Mr. George
Vonstine, tailor and woollen-draper, No. 23, Conduit-street,
which for some time threatened destruction to the pile of
building. The flames weretonfined to the back part of the
premises. The accident originated through the overheating
of the kitchen flue.

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