| Show ELEVEN CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH T Terrible Tragedy at a Rehearsal I Ifor for School Entertainment J BLAZE IN DRESSING ROOM Lulls press Dreu Fie Fire a aGa Ga Jet aud Isa 10 1 a l Pew nv Seconds Maor Were cro Abuse Quincy I ill D Dec tile tho school children ot of St Francis parochial school Seventeenth and and Vane streets were teh rehearsing this afternoon for tor nn an entertainment to tie be shen next Tuesday evening ono one of at their ses caught on fro lire from I a CI gas jet ant and ten minutes ator tour four or of were burned burnell to death two died nn an hour later and five 10 others died before midnight Hal Half I a dozen others were Yere burned more or less seer severely ly lyDea Dea Dead Irena Irena Frieberg May Wavering Mary Althof Bernadine Freund Col Colleta Colletta leta letta Mar Mary WU Wil Olvia Timpe Ad diG dlo Jos Josephine Dohne Bohne and Margaret Warner r rAll All these are between D 0 and 1 11 years old Helen Heien and ond s several other teachers Father NIcholas and Prot Prof were painfully burned In tr try lag Ing to save tIme the children The fre fire started In a I little tto Jr room moon Three or tour four little gIrls were there dressinG dressing for tor the rehearsal and laughing saly among themselves A dozen othes vero grouped In the tho wIngs ot of the tho stage near the tho foot Coot ot of time the stairs descending from time the The Tho gIrls In the tho hind nearly completed their costumes when one ot of th them m brushed brushell against the gas jet hut but which child I it was as wi will never bo be known A touch ot of the tho flame fiame was and in an Instant her dress ot of cotton and light coth cloth was In B a ablaze blaze blaz She screamed and rn ran au out t ot of the room spreading the tho Ore fire to the others I as she rn ran Ono One ot of the tho girls with her dres dress In a ablaze blaze jumped jUmp d out ot of n a small window Into tIme the stairs leading beading to the stage and down the stairs stain J A flaming tor torCh h site sho was nl as she ehe almost fell ell down the tho stairs and rushed Into the groups ot of childen n standing In time the wings They were ni all clad like her hor tim In fancy taney tos Cos ot of cotton lao lace unit silk lk and the lie theIr Ir lire with Incredible rapidity from one to the other T There ro were fourteen children In th the cast ot of the Christmas entertaInment and n a to few It WAS al all over oer In ten minute sd In that into tour four perished seven more were ero tatal fatally burned and others more or les less severe seere by Injured |
