MANY LIVES LOST
HOTEL, IX TEXAS GUTTED Rec. 10.30. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. || Forty-six persons died in a fire II which gutted a hotel at Houston, ft Texas, early this morning. The resi- ft: dents were mostly male pensioners. The police at first feared that the .|i death roll might he as high as 150 M as the walls, which threatened to i] fall, were delaying the search for ft bodies. The outbreak was started by a [' cigarette. It was believed to have | been extinguished, and many of the j residents of the hotel returned to bed. Later the fire restarted, and ; soon the entire building was ablaze. |
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1943, Page 3
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