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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
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Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city garage. Florence Dinger and three of her children were killed.
November 28, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children.
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bedford Street. The structure is a tenement-t...
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
October 28, 1948
Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far left) where a fire killed Florence Dinger...
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and ...
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the rear of the tenement-type house, which is lo...
Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street
November 28, 1948
Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died.
