Fire Tragedy In Mountain Home
Received Thursdav, 12.20 p.m. GEXEVA, Jan. 12. Twelve 'Swiss children wero burned to death when a niountain home fo;children at Chateau d'Oex -was destroyed by fire today. A thirteonth chilil was-'bitdly bunled and is nqt expected to live. Two children were only slightly burned. Fif'teon children wero asleop in thichalet when the fire broke out. A spark from a v.ood stove sot alight clothes hung up to dry in the bath,1'oom. Tn a few minutes the whole chalet was in fiames. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 January 1949, Page 5
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