FATAL FIRE IN TENNESSEE
Women And Children Burned To Death
LEAP FOR LIFE FROM SECOND FLOOR
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright)
(Received December 10, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 9.
A message from Knowville, Tennessee, states that two women and seven children were burned to death in a fire in a three-story apartment house. Nineteen escaped, many in a spectacular manner. One man leapt from a second floor window clutching his five-months-old son in his arms. He was uninjured, but his wife and three other children were burned to death. Another man holding two children jumped from the third floor, and alighted on the second floor porch, and tossed the children to a spectator, who caught them safely. Thereafter he and his wife jumped, escaping with minor burns and shock.
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Southland Times, Issue 23380, 11 December 1937, Page 7
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