| Show ONE ONEHUNDRED HUNDRED AND FIFTY SCHOOL SCHOOLCHILDREN PERISH In Panic Following Fire in School Building at Collinwood Ohio Pupils Fall Victims to Mad Rush Through Jammed Exits Scores Fall Into Red Hot Embers When Floors Give Way Entire Surrounding Country Turns Out to Fight Flames and Render Aid Cleveland March I Over 1 school schoolchildren children lost lo their lives Hvos today In III a 11 fire oro which destroyed the tho building buDding on In III i Col Collinwood linwood Inwood ft U suburb Just outside tho Uio cit efty limits At I 2 this afternoon 14 bodice bodIc had bean recovered and It was behoved were VCr several severn I others in the ruins The rho fh fire stared In the thc basement ot o l about 10 Just otter lIfter si hoot convened It was caused by hy hyan an I rhea furnace The from the thc quickly filled 10 and alarmed the tho children And ehrs A panic ensued No fire drill dull was vas used In rescuing tho the chil children dren iren They The rushed for tor tho tha doors and Md windows m An DOOR DOOn LOCKED Walter r ller C Kc a newspaper man manta mantl mant ta tl t 0 of ot whoso children wore In the tho building was as one of ot the first upon the tho thon thes theIne n s Ine Ho stated that the rear door one ne of oC the two exits was locked The he children rushed for tor tho the front IKI roar rear doors Tho The front was WILS soon jammed full of fighting and panic humanity Many who reach roach 11 ii the exit first escaped but those who followed choked tho doorway Th Those Thoe who foil fell trampled upon upun rim pod ninny many are supposed to have havo been In this manner Those behind touted and mado for the windows me tho the second and third floors Ji j from the th windows and es cs esc csc c pod pfd In III this way three or four tour vere killed while others were more f t i l escaped with slight In Injuries injurIes juries jurl s The Tiu greater number of at thoa who inn death Ilea tit were yere cut oft ot from froni ft h 1 tilt tho smoke which blinded them FELL INTO RAGING FIRE FInE aught like rats In this thiN manner they ft riI li with tho the lower floor amid the timbers to the tho bc bo bow Mv 1 w There the tho little bodies bedIe could be bere bere re 11 writhing In their last struggle 1 were weN taken to tho the morgue at atIn In Lake Lillie Shore Michigan Southern li 1 shops factories In tho the Immediate neigh dismissed thair men who wint to 0 work In un art effort to rescue tin ilu little ones os A few minutes after the building was waif wa known to bo on oi lire the tho th school Ys surrounded by ly l y fathers and moth US H cr who were frantic In their efforts to Ic rescue their children Very Yer few fow ro saved from among the children ho were behind the tho Jam at tho the front dior Ihor l or orThe The others escaped with but slight Injuries Tho Th school was of the corn com common non mon grade and contained chil n ranging In ago ase from 6 8 to 14 oars Two or three of tho the teachers olao OZo D O are Aro thought to have havo perished THE DEAD DAD Among the tile known dead are Edna dna Faber Fanner 12 years cars old oid n Schubert 10 years old 7 years old iyer 6 C years old RECOVERED At 11 1130 30 25 bodies bo les bad been recovered ered Im from tho ruins and wore taken 10 to the tho hospital of or tho thA Lake Lako Lall Shore t Michigan Southern Railway company compan v wh litre re the tue physicians i o tho th Injured Practically every ambulance In tho tIm eastern part of Cleveland was called as 11 well veil an overy available physician Many children rescued are uro In to ho lie fatally Injured either cither by b fire oro or Mug trampled upon Scores of chil children dren uren have been taken to city hospit Three girls mot met Instant death J In m attempting io to Jump to safety from fromme me the third floor of ot the tho burning building li y were Mere Mary Ma Ridgeway Anna and Gertrude Davis Dals DavisA A man named Dorn Darn discovered his hi little girl among tho mass Injured anti and crushed ru Ho lie caught tIu girl by h tIme tho th and In his efforts to ao her pulled arms firma from her liady bUll FOUR IN JANITORS FAMILY I Y The THo Th four tour children of ot tho the janitor tit et f the building lost their lives lIes to i f 1 her In i the iro The Tho greatest loss lose of ot life was waR caused i iIII In III b one of thy the exits exit a being belne closed to tp t Mui li point scores of the tho children wits was blocked by a 11 dour door lUt opened Inward In tula this manner thy riv wre re delayed In reaching tho the nth oth othi l i 4 dOor lOor and ana windows It Jt Is la gold said that thata Us OB a U result nf of this odo alone SI 81 II rs of children lost their lives HP n as 1111 to the number of ot Dr ey Tho first estimates placed the tho number an us high as us Reports aDo Irig at this thili time In the tho ex cx It va Impossible to form 1 it reasonable r Judging from I the he number of r bodies that have been re i r red d and In tho number r missing ml to tor t R tb r with tho the that can enn bo be bor It r In tho th it in iii I safe to unto tl that nt ul at last In t 71 have lie er 1 I hed TWO Or Of the tho Iliac nino of ot the school r 11 i lire are accounted for the Tho two mis are uro t II or of ot f ond draco Fisk ot of East nil al l V P 1 Whittle of ot tho lImo i h noi l estimates the Iho number of ot dead doid ii 75 a to ICO lO GO Tho rho pupils pupil worn were fv cry fy children ranging 4 Ilme IO e Train from 9 0 to 10 13 22 I 1 to 10 1 Ih Ilija afternoon Gt 61 Muni hOlt hem recovered from tent time till tillI I I ll N Of 33 31 been rh Th 0 o of 12 art boyn booi and 11 u rr at tho burned o rIm DEAD Iw Girls 10 Pod 11 I rath 10 yearn cal II 0 earH Kelil 11 yearn H 10 years Two 10 ansI and 12 1 1 10 n t Ihrl r t Martha Werner Hurter L K Kelly lly boy 10 years Ke Kelly Keily ly boy bo 7 years earo Wailer Weller teacher Hal lo 10 years Lucy Lue 8 S years ears Mablo SillIer SIgler 10 years Don Rush 12 years yee Irene Davis 14 H years Angelene Angelono 11 years Edward C G years Frank Widman 6 years rears ears John Widman 10 years yean Lillian G 6 years Emil S years Schaefer boy 9 Ii years MISSING Lyon Lon LonI Emma I Heinle Peter INJURED Glen OIen Barber Darbor 10 iO years Mildred Schmidt 10 years The Tho panic that bad work worked d such fluch fearful results Inside tho the building spread to the tho helpless crowd outside but only anI for Cor a II brief time Ume Organized efforts at rescue were noon soomi under way Firemen lloyd I lo d streams upon the piles plies of bodies In the UC doorways anti tried to drag out bodies with rakes and other Ambulances and automobiles were POOH Mon available to take tallo tho the Injured to Lo tho th hospitals BODIES FIVE I FEET DEEP DEEL After the ilmo fire ore had hn been reduced some somewhat somewhat what plies piles of charred little bodies wore ero still visible In the tho doorways In Inthe Inthe Inthe the rear remI door eor bodies burned beyond I recognition lay Ill plied piled five nyO foot deep deepA A man who reached the school build building ing In shortly after aftel tIme the fire 1110 broke broko out de tie declared dared that tho lie back door was vas locked Ie Ho attempted to break brcak down tho the door but failed to do so Ho He then smashed In thu tho windows with tho the hid aid Ild of some somo others and ad secured some somo children by dragging them out out The Tho flames a shot up through the central c halls with terrible rapidity It ItIs 1 itis Is stated the tho children wore terrified beyond all al control anti and d the tha teachers although they the struggled bravely to marshal their charges out of ot tho ho build building log ing In In something like Iko order were ut utterly terly teril tHI helpless BAD DISCIPLINE Those boso who hool were vem familiar with the tho building and were early on 01 tho scene believe bellevo bloo that most or o tho tim loss of ct f lire was duo due to tho the tact fact fat that tnt aU mU I U of tho the rooms rOmS er dismissed at once Pu Pupils Pupils pils pis pouring down the stairs mado for tor forthe tho the doorways already n full tul of children escaping from the tho lower floors The exits exis Were soon choked The rime desper desperate ate ato ones Dues behind pushed and struggled for foe their lives driving the human wedges In thorn thom tighter In place Neighbors living across tIme tho street who were tho the first to reach tho the burn I Inn In building said wid the tho lower halls hails hals were already filled with flames flameR when whelm I they arrived They h y helped out such Buch children as they could reach but they the vere forced to see many perish be bo beyond yond ond their aid ald The Tho doors and windows were cool packed with terrified little ones whoso whose panic left thorn thom helpless to 10 Many children descended the tho t fire firc escape hut but feared eared to Jump reaching tho bottom They ho were pulled pul ell down downto to mako room for tor others PANIC AMONG A PARENTS Fearful scenes R enacted around tho tIme burning schoolhouse Fathers and Ind mothers raved cursed or prayed Many tried to break through tIme tho crowd and gome tomUO got so far as IS to t dash toward the flaming damning doorway Ono One big Ig man malta Inn In dver r I nih and Jumper jump r was restrained by tur In broken English that his hIli kinder were In the tho th build buildIng Ing lag ho struggled desperately with the three men who held him Finally thoy they threw throw him to 10 tho the ground and sat eat at on him him forcing his great It form torm down In II tho limo ankle dc dtP deop p mud Thu Tim building was I completely destroyed only tho th outer brick walls wal remain standing Tho rhe floors und anil roof lOt foil fell fel Into the tha Interior early In tho tIme fire oro making tho time rescue r of at bodies boIes absolutely hopeless ho leR SCENES OF OE HORROR As Al soon as firemen and volunteers could get got close coBo enough lough attempts wore were made to pluck bodies from the tha death heaps at ot tho limo doors dorA It was found that tho the flames had hUl practically Incinerated tho the Oodles bodies olles Firemen 1 with rakes forks and Ind up blackened bodies little skulls skull mosses masses ma ses of nf charred flesh but bodies as IH such ouch luch werl no 10 longer to be found A Ii added to tho tIme horror of ot Miss Anna Anla Memo principal of time the school who escaped says las that tho the chili chil children dren dron a IL mad mush niNh for tor the thu ho door 1101 as Il fOI as I tho time alarm of or fire lre was wag Hounded but ut wore were driven back by tho limo choking smoke Later Lter tho time flames llames lames prevented tint tIme escape ing In oC ot many from Com the tha burning buring build building buld buldIn buIlding |
