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Batavia Boy Dies In Fire in Ohio Home Tragedy
Batavia Ohio AP reports a fatal blaze at a two story Parker Road frame house leaving 13 year old James Wilder dead. Eight Wilder children escaped with their mother Mrs Wilder while father Ernest Wilder had gone to work in Cincinnati. Virgil Wilder told firefighters he, Claude, Elmer and James slept on the second floor and heard James scream but could not locate him. Virgil suffered a small nasal burn.
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