FIRE IN HOME FOR AGED.
TWENTY-SIX BURNED TO DEATH. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 26, 5.5 p.m.) PITTSBURG, July 24. Twenty-five persons are known to be dead and twenty missing-, while more than one hundred are in hospitals, after a fire which destroyed the home for aged of the Littie Sisters of the Poor here.
Later details of the fire state that v-venty-six persons (twenty-five of them believed to be inmates and one nun) were burned to death. Two hundred and seventeen others are in hospitals. The Are occurred on Friday night. Tile physicians fear that the shock, terror and confusion among the aged will increase the fatalities.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18939, 27 July 1931, Page 7
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110FIRE IN HOME FOR AGED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18939, 27 July 1931, Page 7
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