FIRE AT LONG ISLAND
' NEW YORK, August 31. i Fire destroyed the St. Macalachy's Home, on Long Inland. The bodies of seven children have so far been recovered, and it >s feared that there are more fatalities. LONDON, September 1. There were 10 death* at St. Malaehy's Hcme, Long Island (New York), as a, result of the fire. Six hundred escaped. Th.-i nur.s literally dragged 200 out of the burning building. I Sifter Concepts carried 65 babies from the smoke-filled nursery, two in each arm, taking them from their cots to the staircase, ■« hence four elder girls carried tbeni to ihe yard. 1 * vi ■ i hi iii
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24
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