Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-30 | Page 14 | Five Girls Die in Shop Fire

FIVE GIRLS DIE I IN SHOP FIRE Celluloid Bursts Bursts Into Flames Bodies Are Burne Burned m May rV ny 9 By Bya The Associated Press Press g gare are are dead and eight persons to be seriously Injured as known ch the result ot of II a which swept Sutton a 0 building occupied by the In Top Shop a concern dealing automobile accessories ac s The Tho bodies bod were burned sO badly th Y could not be recognized d One of the thc Injured girls Cath- Cath Catherine erine burned co so se- se severely severely erine Wood was verely about the face faco that It I Is l feared fared she ho ma may go EO blind Others suffered Buffered sprains and Injuries In es- es cs from the the second floor or of ortho orho tho buildIng John Sutton head ot of the firm was seriously burned when he h Insisted on attempts at rescue until forcibly by bythe bythe byth the firemen All but five of ot the 13 girls employed on the tho second ceeder In 1 finding their way out ot of the smoke filled room down the only stairway The Th bodies ot of the five were found by firemen who fought foucht th lr way Into the building The fire started when wilen a strip ot of celluloid being sawed ind in a ma- ma machine machine ma machine chine on on the ground floor burst Into flames names