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Truax Barracks Fire
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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.
November 6, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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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 kerosen...
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