FIRE IN SUB-NORMAL GIRLS’ SCHOOL
TWENTY-TWO LIVES LOST. Los Angeles, June 2. Twenty-two are dead and eighteen suffering from minor burns as a resuit of a fire which destroyed' the Hope Development School at Playa Del Rey for sub-normal girls. Twenty of the girls killed were in their ’teens or early twenties. Mrs. D. Thomas, the matron, sacrificed her life in a vain effort to lead the girls from the burning structure. Wilfrid Ringer, the son of an attendant, was also killed. ■ Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 214, 4 June 1924, Page 9
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