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FIRE DEATH
WOMAN AT WINDOW
FIREMAN WALKS
A 51 year old man was killed this afternoon, when fire
raced through his apartment, at 7.23 North Marsalis, in
Dallas. The victim, identified as Paul M. Knight, is
the city's 31st fire death of the year. Firemen say
they had no chance to save Knight, who was alone in the
apartment, when the fire broke out.
L a ,1'iremen found 2 , lying on the living
A
room floor. IThe victim's wife was working in a depart-
ment store, at the time of the fire. She went into a
state of shock, when told of her husband's death.. Most
of the fire damage was confined to the Knight's apart
ment.
(tWSo Stephenson, rec4
fl Bess RunW who lives above the
Knight apartment, says she heard a man groaning down-
stairs, and, knowing Knight had heart trouble, she de-
rs$.
cided to investigate. M Stephenson says i she 1
opened the door to the Knight's apartment, and a wall
singeing
of fire hit her in the face, her hair.
the
Deputy fire chief Lester says the cause of MiblazeJ
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fire death], item, December 24, 1963; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc954408/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.