Selma, March 14—A negro baby, three or four years old, was burned to death yesterday when a pressing club belonging to Harvey Richardson and a barber shop belonging to Frank Sims were destroyed by fire. The building housing the two establishments was a frame structure. The boiler in the pressing club exploded and in their hurry to save themselves from the onrushing flames, three negroes, employees, rushed out of the building, leaving the baby to be swallowed up by the fire. The firemen quickly answered the alarm and extinguished the flames a few minutes before the baby died. The baby was the child of Harvey Richardson, owner of the pressing club.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, March 16, 1926
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