CHILDREN’S HOME: “Thirty-one little inmates of the McKean County
Children’s Home located near Custer City were driven from their
refuge between 5 and 6 o’clock yesterday morning by the total
destruction of the home by fire… Fear of a panic prevented dressing
of the children before their escape from the institution and while
some of the younger ones were carried the majority walked in their
night clothing a quarter mile to the home of A.A. Foster on the
south and to George Courtright’s residence on the north…”
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