The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project lists recordings of OHIO PRISON FIRE by B & C Barnes, Bob Miller, Miller & Burnett, and Carson Robison.

About the fire itself, The Ohio Historical Society has only this to say:

[I]n 1930 the Ohio Penitentiary [in Columbus] became the site of the worst fire in an American prison in history. At total of 322 lives were lost in the fire.

There is more information at The Morning Journal (of Lorain, OH). An excerpt:

The state's largest prison was at 300 percent capacity with about 4,300 inmates when the fire broke out about 5:30 p.m. on the day after Easter. Firefighters responded when someone called in an alarm from outside the prison about 15 minutes after it started. A breakdown in command kept guards from unlocking the cell doors. Those who were killed were trapped as if in "a giant bird cage," according to a report to Gov. Myers Y. Cooper by a task force led by Attorney General Gilbert Bettman. Columbus Fire Chief A. E. Nice said no one would have died if the inmates had been let out of their cells.