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Show GIRL8 MEET HORRIBLE DEATH. Thirty Children Fall Into Publlo Cess-1 Cess-1 pool, Nine Being Killed. Nino school girls woro suffocatod in n cesspool in Cincinnati during tho afternoon recess at tho Pleasant nidge public school house, and a scoro ot othors narrowly escaped tho samo hor-rlblo hor-rlblo death. All of tho victims wcro from primary grados. On opposlto sides of the spa-clous spa-clous ground In tho rear of tho subur. ban school building nro two outhouses. out-houses. At recess about thirty young girls were In the outhouso asslgnod to thom, whon tho floor gavo way, pre- clpltatlng them In tho stono-wallod cosspool twolvo feet deep, and containing contain-ing four feet of sewerage Tho frantic fran-tic struggles of thoso who woro on tot kept nt least nlno underneath until thoy woro dead. Tho frnmo shed ovei tho sewor waB about twonty feel square, without windows, and hnd only ono narrow deorway, so that only oni girl escaped falling. Sho ran Into th school building nnd told tho tcachen what had happoned. Tho children wor roscued as soon ns posslblo, but not before be-fore nlno had beon suffocatod. |