HOTEL FIRE
FORT¥=SIX PERSONS KILLED IN U.S.A. SUPPOSEDLY EXTINGUISHED FIRE. SPREADS THROUGH ENTIRE BUILDING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA, September 7. Forty-six persons were killed in an hotel fire at Houston, not 150 as at first feared. The fire was started by a cigarette. It was believed to have been extinguished and many of the inmates of the hotel returned to bed. Later the fire again started and soon the entire building was ablaze.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1943, Page 4
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78HOTEL FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1943, Page 4
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