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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT CHRISTMAS PARTY.

Hobart, Oklahoma, Dec. 26.

Thirty suven were incherated and others are feared dond as the result of a conflagration in a School house during the Christmas festivities, many of the victims being children. The fire originated by a candle igniting the Christmas Tree, which overturned with its blazing decorations. The panic stricken crowds wore trapped in the furnace, from which there was only one exit, the windows being fitted outside with wire screens, rendering escape, thereby Impossible. Agonised friends and parents outside worked franti cally and fruitlessly to extricate desparingly the screaming victims. -Reuters American Service.

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