HOTEL HOLOCAUST
FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION SLEEPING GUESTS TRAPPED IN GEORGIA MANY KILLED AND INJURED (Recd This Day, 12.20 p.m.) ATALANTA (Georgia), May 16. At least 24 persons were killed and 10 injured when a fire, due to an explosion in the basement of the kitchen, destroyed a five-storied brick and frame hotel. The flames broke out while 50 guests were asleep and spread rapidly, dense smoke making impossible the attempts of many to escape. The roof collapsed and plunged through the charred floors to the basement, ending all hope of the survival of any of those trapped. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the ruins, five died in hospital, and five leaped from windows, one breaking his neck. A switchboard operator attempted to awaken the guests by telephone, but burned his hands and body, and narrowly escaped death.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1938, Page 8
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