Show I 1 I 1 y three hundred children become panic stricken in school house fire and many meet death sickening disaster at north collin wood ohio caused by over h cited furnace and the fact that rear exit was waa locked cleveland 0 0 penned in narrow hallways hal lays jammed up against doors that opened only inward chil then in the suburb of north th collin wood were mere killed hilled 13 1 flie die by smoke and beneath benrath the grinding heels ot of their panic fat ilcken the I 1 he awful tragedy occurred wed morning in the public school of collinwood tn ten miles east of this city at 10 0 clock wednesday night corpses were mere in the abo morgue at collinwood six children mere still unaccounted for and all tile the hospitals and houes for two wiles miles around contained numbers of 0 children some fatally and many less lesa injured all of the victims were between the ages of 6 and 15 years iha school contained between and pupils and of this entire liu number niber only about eighty are aie known to have left the unhurt it will be several days daya before the exact number of killed Is known as the ruins may still contain other bodies and the of fatalities fatali liea may bo be increased by a number of deaths among the children who are now lying in the hospitals hovering between life and death the school house was of bilili tm two 0 stories and an attic in III height I 1 ihal ho number of pupils was waa mole moie than nor noi anally liro and ill jhc thc smaller sin alloi children had bad been beca placed in un fin attic of tio tie building iheke was waa but one tire ire escape and that was mas in III the rear icar of the building chere were two stairways one leading to a door in front and tho other aher to a door in the tear lear both ot of cheso doors opened inward and it la Is claimed the rear door was locked as adl an attempt was made to have the Lb children ildren maich out but a panic en sued ailis catherine weller one of I 1 he be nine teachers in the school lost her life in a vain effort to marshal the pupils of her class and lend lead them to safety she died in the crush at the rear door her room was mas on the second floor and when the file alarm sounded bounded she marched lier her pupils puella out irto the hall thinking it was only a fire drill there the truth dawned damned upon both teacher and pupils and control was lost the children in their frenzy plunged into the struggling wass mass ahead of them miss aliss weller weiler at tempted to stem the rush but went merit down under it and her body was mas found an hour later piled high wilh alose tl ose of her pupils aless I 1 isk an other teacher was taken out alive but she can not live ille ahen tell iiames wore were discovered the teachers throughout seem beem tollag to have acted with courage and slon elon and to hae bae struggled heroically tor for the safety of their pupils and the little ones into col dmn for the flie file drill which they had often practiced |