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Show PUPILS PERILED IN SCHOOL FIRE 540 Flee to Safety as Building Burns PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Jan. 4 JP Five hundred and forty pupils and 20 teachers escaped today as flames enveloped the Point Street grammar school. The blaze started In the boiler room of the three-story, 50-year-old structure and quickly spread inside partitions throughout the building. Many of those occupying occupy-ing third-floor classrooms were forced to lesve by fire escapes. The children, unable to reach their overcoats, so rapid was the spresd of the flames, were sheltered shel-tered In the near-by Tyler' Parochial Paro-chial school. |