Well, still nothing about sprinklers, but it appears that the orphans of Itasca did well in the aftermath. (Also worthy of note: the school housed only 100 orphans anyway, so that many people could not possibly have died. Really, nobody died at all, but I just wanted to point that out.)
"Orphan Home Gives Report of Progress,"
Dallas Morning News 16 November 1940, p. 6:
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... The new home for little boys is one of the show spots on the campus this year. It was built to replace one which burned last January. ...
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ETA: Also, the book mentioned earlier does publish the story. See
here. Unfortunately the notes are not included in the preview.
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