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Fire, The Rose and Crown,
Kirkby Lonsdale
Dec. 7. This morning, about one o'clock, the house of
Mrs. Roper, the Rose and Crown Inn, Kirkby-Lonsdale,
was discovered to be on fire. The hostler, who was the first
person awakened by the flames, immediately gave the alarm to
all the family whom the violence of the fire would allow him
to approach. Mrs. Roper, two of her daughters, a female
servant, five servant-men, a traveller, and a professional
gentleman, who was a lodger in the house, effected their
escape, most of them by leaping out of the windows. Five of
the female servants became the victims of the devouring
element, and were literally burnt to ashes. The house is
entirely destroyed, and scarcely any part of the furniture
was saved.
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