FIRE DISASTER
26 LIVES LOST. OVER 200 CASUALTIES. (United Prßsa Aa»ociation—By Electrii Telegraph— Copyright). PITTSBURGH, July 24. Twenty-five persons are known to bo dead and twenty are missing, while more than one hundred are in hospitals, after a disastrous fire which destroyed the Home for the Aged here, conducted by the Little Sister of the Poor. FURTHER DETAILS. PITTSBURGH. July 24. Later details of the fire state that twenty-six persons, twenty-five of them believed to be inmates, and one Nun, were burned to death in the fire at the Home for the Aged. Two hundred and seventeen others are in hospitals. The fire occurred on Friday night.
The physicians tear that the shock, terror, and confusion among the aged persons will increase the fatalities.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1931, Page 5
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124FIRE DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1931, Page 5
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