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Truax Barracks Fire
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Four Truax barracks apartment neighbors who rescued Walter Alburn and two of his children from the Alburn apartment after a kerosene explosion and resulting fire. Walter's wife, Dorothy, was also carried from the apartment but died later in a hospital. The neighbors in the picture are, left to right: Henry Osborne, a construction worker; Floyd Boyles, a county highway employee; William Ashley, a mechanic at Oscar Mayer and Company; and Donald Crabtree, a driver for the Royal Crown soft drink firm, holding his daughter Darcey Lee. The dog in the picture belonged to the Alburn family.
December 6, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Truax Barracks Fire
December 6, 1948
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 kerosen...
Truax Barracks Fire
November 6, 1948
Truax barracks building where a kerosene explosion and fire fatally burned Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) Alburn, and seriously burned her husband and two of their children.
Truax Barracks Fire
December 6, 1948
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, ...
Ice Slide at Truax Field
February 23, 1950
Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background.
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.
Children Modeling Clothes
April 21, 1948
Group portrait of ten young children modeling the latest styles in clothes for children at a program presented by residents of the 2400 block at Truax Field at a meeting of the Truax 150 club.
