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DESTRUCTION OF HALIFAX HOTEL PLIGHT OF HELPLESS VICTIMS. NO ESCAPE FROM UPPER STOREYS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), March 2. Eye-witnesses of the Halifax hotel fire in which forty persons are known to be dead or are missing told a graphic story of men, women, and children clinging at the hotel windows piteously begging for air, only to drop back into the flames. . The fire spread into the business district, entailing a total damage amounting to 800,000 dollars. None of the guests in the three upper stories of the five-storey building escaped. Seventy persons escaped unharmed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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101TRAPPED BY FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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