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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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