The Archive · 1935

IRISH SWEEPSTAKES

BURNT TO GROUND

Dublin, Apr, 24, The Plaza, headquarters of the Irish, Hospitals Sweepstakes, was burnt to the ground by fire, Tocendiarism is strongly suspected. and the police are making intensive investigations in. this connection, "Among the many valuable articles saved from the fire were thousands of counterfoils. stored in steel boxes, The huge drum, from which many fortune had emerged, was just, a mass of twisted wreckage when dis covered.

"Among-the thousands of spectators of the fire were many of the 300 girls employed in the building. Most of them were In tears as they watched the flames slowly reduce the Plaza toa mass of smoking rulns—Reuter.

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