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BOYS' CARELESSNESS CAUSES TRAGEDY.—Four boys playing with candles in a New York ice factory ad joining a six-storey 27-family apartment building started a fire which culminated in an explosion which almost entirely wrecked the building. Eight persons were killed and 38 were injured.

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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1947, Page 8

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BOYS' CARELESSNESS CAUSES TRAGEDY.—Four boys playing with candles in a New York ice factory adjoining a six-storey 27-family apartment building started a fire which culminated in an explosion which almost entirely wrecked the building. Eight persons were killed and 38 were injured. Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1947, Page 8

BOYS' CARELESSNESS CAUSES TRAGEDY.—Four boys playing with candles in a New York ice factory adjoining a six-storey 27-family apartment building started a fire which culminated in an explosion which almost entirely wrecked the building. Eight persons were killed and 38 were injured. Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1947, Page 8

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