Two young yeshiva students lost their lives last night and two others were injured when a fire destroyed one of the four dormitories at the famed Telzen Yeshiva in Wickliffe, a Cleveland suburb. The dead boys, both of the Cleveland area, were Jacob Junef, 12 and Abraham Solomon Glick, 14, Wolf Sabo, 14, of Los Angeles, and Abraham Satz of Buffalo, N. Y., were treated at a local hospital for burns and released.
The fire, which started at 4:30 a.m., quickly spread throughout the dormitory and drove nearly 100 boys in their underclothes into the bitter cold outside. They were immediately taken into warm houses and given first aid to prevent chilling. Bulldozers had to be used to level three stone fireplaces and chimneys before firemen could sift the ruins for the bodies of the two boys who perished in the flames.
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