PART 2: “The flames spread rapidly from the laundry to the
kitchen, to the main structure and thence to the annex constructed
of brick on three sides. All were consumed in turn, nothing
remaining to mark the site of the home but the stone cellar walls
and the concrete exterior of a storehouse at the rear.”

So The Era reported on the December 1915 fire that destroyed the
Children’s Home in Custer City.

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