Three Dead When Dormitory Demolished
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Recej-ved bunday 7 p.m. • NEW • YORK; Dec. 3. Three students were burned' to deatli and 19 injured at Normau, Oklahoma, early today ,whea a wpodou. dornutory housing 400 University of oklahoma atu- . dents was burned to th'e "ground withi'n a tevv minutes. -The rOsidents, ali'men, leaped from windows or iied- through dooi'ways m p.yj.amas as the. £Lre raced. through all live wings of the two-stoi-ey building. The dormitory and its equipment- were valued at between . 600,000 and_ 700,000 dollars. it was the . second disaster at the University within eight months. A tor- : nado on April 30 caused 1,000,000 dol Lars w.urth of damage and injured 48 persous.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 5
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