LOCKED IN HOUSE
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH NEW YORK, Dec. 29. Five officials at Bridgeport (Connecticut) report the reception of a telephone alarm from a small boy and then a voice of a small girl cut in shouting: “You can’t get in. The house is locked.” The brigade put the fire out in a seven-roomed cottage and found the bodies of four boys, aged one, three, four and eight, and a girl, nine, who had been locked in the house while the parents opened a gasoline station operated by the father.
In a convalescent hospital fire, four children and their parents were burned to death at Meriden. This brings the total in Connecticut to 30 in a week.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 68, 31 December 1945, Page 3
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