| Show i FIRE STARTED AT MIDNIGHT iGHT Thirteen Lives Lost in Burning Cath Catholic CathI Catholic olic olio Convent I EIGHT VICTIMS CHILDREN J JI I NUN PERISHED TRYING TO SAVE OTHERS OT HERS 1 j Apr J I rore k out at t an ab earty and 1 reduced to ashes the convent COI t in the lit littie tie village e of ol St Genevieve One nun eight fight children and four foul old ladies lost k t their ives lives i Dead I Sister music teacher 32 3 3 years ears old olt Miss Mimi rand li Ii years old oW I I Miss s Tessier IS 18 from fro m Isle 1 I Mal eline Irene Il B t aged 11 of oC St Genevieve I Leona Leo n a Daoust aged ed 1 13 of or Isie Isle I 11 U years Mont Montreal real neal Miss Ducat Ducas DU at 14 Jt years St Genevieve Miss J 15 l 1 years yea Isle Isis I One unidentified uJ denU eti Miss Margaret 98 years Mrs aged 18 r Mine Narcise Lalonde 82 8 Mine Cardinal S Si SC Rescue Impossible Bucket brigades were ere hurriedly formed by hy the villagers but the Ute tire Are had gained such soch su h headway that it wassOn was soon sOn apparent aJ that there was as no chance to sae sa e the building buil from destruction I INot j I Notwithstanding withstanding Not all It efforts I there was a deplorable loss oC of life lift Sister in her bt r efforts effort to i iI I save sae the lives of the tbt children in her heri I II I i charge barge succumbed to the smoke and andI I flames The pupils who perished were I in a i l of the building where when the fire tire hd had obtained too much headway I before the alarm was given to enable those who woo responded tb to effect then their I rescue I An Au effort was made to get Point Claire Clahe by b telephone so that assistance ami tance I I could be li ld d from fro In Montreal but for II some reason Iea n yet to l be e explained no noI I response was wag as received rec from Point I Claire I The fire are re started about midnight in inthe inI inthe the old ladies 1 hospital and the smoke I children the was W UI so thick that the on floor above aboc were unable to get giEt down don J I Th convent was tar called aU Ste Annes Annesi An s sand Ij I i and was a ii braw branch of the convent of the j I Sisters Sister Si of f Ste Annes uneS at Lachine The I building was a grey stone structure I I handsome han i in appearance massive in iii iiiI I SUId hed with Hw time church it formed a central feature e of the pretty wetty l eUy I 1 little litHe village I The parents parent of or Miss fUss Bertha Tessier res ler lerone I one of the victims l are in California |
