A distressing calamity occurred at Pembroke, Brighton parish (Carleton Co.) Friday morn. last by which a three year old boy was burned to death and the fond parents left frantic with grief. David McKENZIE and his family were aroused at an early hour to find the dwelling in flames. The family comprised Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, two children, boy and girl and a hired man named BRITTAIN. They all slept on the second floor. Brittain succeeded in getting down stairs and out a window and went to get a ladder. Meanwhile Mr. McKenzie succeeded with difficulty in dropping his wife and eldest child out of an upper window and then endeavored to find the other child, but the smoke and flames prevented him from doing so and he, sparcely conscious, barely saved his own life by leaping from the window. After the fire burned itself out, the remains of the little boy, a few charred bones, were found. The other four who escaped with their lives were all more or less badly burned. The barn and all its contents were condumed. Dr. Sprague was sent for and rendered all medical assistance possible. (see also DISPATCH 6 June 1894)