THE GRIM SIDE
CHRISTMAS IN U.S.A
Rec. 12.20 p.m
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.
The grimmest tragedy this Christmas occurred in a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, when a Christmas tree ignited and became a torch of death. Flames swept the building and fatally burned 16 persons and seriously injured 12. Most of the victims were aged convalescents.
Gerard Bradford, a discharged veteran, returned to Kansas City to spend his first Christmas with his two young daughters. He found them in bed, and a maid sitting on a chair between them with a nursery book on her lap. All were dead from coal fumes.
Mary Potter, aged eight, before succumbing after an operation for appendicitis, uttered the Christmas wish: "I wouldn't mind dying if only papa would go along with mo." Her father died from a heart attack three hours later when walking upstairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 152, 26 December 1945, Page 4
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