A FATAL FIRE.
BOARDING HOUSE BURNED, INMATES LEAP FROM WINDOWS. FIFTY PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received April 20,[9.10 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. A wooddn building, which [was being used as a boarding house in-San Francisco during rebuilding operations, . and accommodating three hundred labourers, has been destroy-, ed by fire. Two hundred of the inmates leapt; from the winduws in their night attire. Fifty persons were burnt'to death," and many others sustained broken limbs in their endeavours to escape .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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85A FATAL FIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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