Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 5 | Five Little Girls Lose Lives in Fire

IVE LITTLE CIS LOSE LIVES IN FI it. Francis Girls' Directory at San Francisco Is Destroyed. rt Intrnatltvial Nrs Service. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 4. Five lit-I lit-I (jirls lost their Uvea at an ortIv hour his morning in the tire whieh destroyed he Sts Francis Girls' Directory, a five-tory five-tory frame structure at Buena Vista nd Central avenues; imperilled the ves of fifty-one other children, who jcaped unhurt through the heroism of He attending Sisters of St. Joseph: The dead: May Condon, 16. Elizabeth O'Brien, Stella Barouch, 4. Catherine Mathers, 4. May Coleman, 7. The scene about the home was paretic pa-retic in the extreme today, fathers and lothers who had been long separated tee ting over the dead bodies of their .ttle ones. The fire started at 1:55 oVlock this j lorning. Only the heroism of the Risers, Ris-ers, who awakened their little charges nd mustered them through the smoke-illed smoke-illed halls, saved the other girls from haring the fate of their unfortunate ompanions. St. Joseph's hospital, close to the rphanage, was threatened by fire, but ie firemen succeeded in confining the laze to the building occupied by the di-?ctorr. di-?ctorr. Above the work of the sisters shines le heroism of Sister Mary Agnes and Iother Superior Margaret, wfio risked eir lives in conveying the children to IjCfety.