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Truax Barracks Fire
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Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in the Truax barracks apartment where a kerosene explosion started a fire in the Alburn apartment.
December 6, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Police officers Frank Eisele and Robert O'Neil examining the explosion-wrecked stove and the kerosene can from which resident Walter Alburn poured kerosene on the embers in the wood-burning stove, ...
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