FIRE TRAGEDY
SEVERAL PRISONERS BURNED TO DEATH
United v> ress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright AvMt.raliau PreßS Association. —United Service.
NEW YORK, 7th October.. A message from Junction City, Ohio, slates that at least six prisoners in the State Penitentiary- were burned to death when fire destroyed a dormitory in which 270 prisoners were asleep.
SEVENTEEN DEATHS
(Received 9th October, .10.15 a.m.) VANCOUVER, BUI October. A Junction City report places (lie number of deaths from the penitentiary lire at seventeen. WOY WOY OUTBREAK
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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