FIRE TRAGEDY
HOTEL IN GEORGIA SLEEPING GUESTS' FATE SERIOUS CASUALTY LIST TRAPPED IN BUILDING By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, May 1G At least 24 people were killed and 10 others injured in a lire caused by an explosion in a basement kitchen, which destroyed a five-storey biick frame hotel at Atlanta, Georgia. The flames broke out while 50 guests were asleep and spread rapidly. Dense smoke inado impossible the attempts of many to escape. The roof collapsed and plunged through tho charred floors to tho basement, ending all hope of tho survival of any of those trapped. Sixteen bodies .-wore recovered from the ruins. Five people died in hospital and five leaped from windows, one breaking his neck. Tho switchboard operator attempted to awaken the guests by telephone, but burned his hands and body and narrowly escaped doath.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 14
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139FIRE TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 14
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