Children Trapped In Hotel Fire
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 19. Trapped children screamed for help from windows and the glass roof of a hotel in Tours early today as fire swept through the hotel. Smoke billowing from the fire suffocated four of the children. Others were injured as firemen tried to rescue them from the blaze which lasted four hours-
The children, all English boys, were from a school in Cheshire. They were staying in the hotel for the Easter holidays.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 8
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