When more than 30 girls sought shelter in their school’s rotting outhouse building, a floor collapse sent them plunging into what can only be described as worse than the pits of hell. ‘The Cincinnati Privy Disaster’ would be a life and death struggle in 11 years of accumulated human waste that would prove too much for many of the girls to overcome.

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