THIRTEEN GIRLS LOSE LIVES IN A FIRE
LONDON, May 4. —Thirteen girls are dead and about 24 other people, including two firemen, were injured as a result of a fire in a fashion shop n Argyle Street, Glasgow, today Eleven of the dead?girls were trapped in the building. Two of five others who jumped 50 feet at the height of
the fire from the roof of the blazing store, died later in hospital.
Firemen operating turntables rescued several of the girls, and five were rushed to hospital suffering from burns and severe shock. Thirty girls were at one time trapped on the roof. —Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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