Show SCORE OF gui CHILDREN mm CAUGHT IN TRAP FIRE IN PAROCHIAL SCHOOL CAUSES PANIC LOSING THEIR LIVES six hundred children in building when explosion in boller boiler room starts fire blockade occurring when pupils rush for doors peabody mass twenty one children most of thorn them girls ranging in ago age from 7 to 17 years lost their lives thursday in a fire which destroyed st johns parochial school another girl has injuries which are regarded as probably fatal while others were less severely hurt the children had entered their class rooms for the morning session when the are was discovered and although a majority of 0 them were guided to safety by sisters of the order of notre dame who were their teachers panic seized a large number as they neared the front door and in their rush to escape tho lost their tooting footing and their bodies blocked the exit it was in ohp front vestibule that nearly all the bodies found all of the sisters escaped but mother superior marte carmalita Carmell ta was seriously burned at the convent house it was said that her injuries probably were nonfatal not fatal although she is prostrated by the disaster and the suffering ot of her charges now how the tha fire started may never to be known an early theory of a boiler explosion having been dIs dismissed the state police officials weyo were of the opinion on that a store room in the basement where a gas gaa meter was located was its source but investigation ot of the theory was diff as the place where the store room had bad been was destroyed st |