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Show SCORES OF CHILDREN nrn pis ipi FLAMES Bodies of Forty - one Little Ones Recovered From the Ruins of the Grey Nunnery at Montreal ; Searchers Say Toll of Death May Reach 100. AGED WOMEN AND MEN ARE SAVED Wounded or Sick Soldiers Sol-diers From Overseas Taken Out; Heroic Nuns and Nursing Sisters Sis-ters Strive Valiantly to Rescue All of Thefr Charges. MONTREAL, Feb. 14. Th charred bodies of forty-one children had been recovered late tonight from the ruins of the Grey nunnery, which was destroyed by fire. It is feared many more perished and searchers believed the toll of death might reach 100. All the inmates of the great buildings except the children, are believed to have escaped. They included nuns, nurslns sisters, wounded or sick soldiers from oversea, aged, sick or crippled men and women to the number of almost a thousand. thou-sand. Alarm Quickly Given. When the flames were discovered in the west wing tho alarm was Quickly given and all those able to help themselves fle-d j to place of safety. The heroic nuns and ! nursing sisters strove valiantly to save tho sick and wounded as well as the infants 1 under their charge. The children were housed in the section of t lie building where the fire started and the flames spread so quickly it was impossible im-possible to save them all. Soldiers Escape. None of the soldiers suffered injury however, although nearly 200 of them were quartered in the building. The ages of the inmates of the nunnery ranged from two or three days to almost a hundred years. Many of the infants who died in the fire and smoke were only & few days or a few weeks old. The elderly inmates were housed In another an-other section of the nunnery, and were not immediately menaced by the flames. Three more children's bodies "were recovered re-covered early this morning. |