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Show GIRL'S COLLEGE DESTROYED. Five Children Lose Their Lives In Early Morning Flro. Lynchburg, Va. Fivo children lost their lives early Tuesday In a fire that destroyed tho girl's college of tho Presbytorlan , church orphanage hero. Tho victims woro all inmates of tho nursery. it was Impossible to rescue tho childron who polished. Ono of the chlldron wjio mot doath was .taken out of tho building, but when sho ascertained as-certained that her younger sister was still Insldo, sho ran back. Tho flro was discovered by Mrs. Priest, tho cook, whon tho entire basomont and first floor wero enveloped. en-veloped. Mrs. Priest rushod to the third story and brought fifteen children chil-dren down to the second floor, leading lead-ing them to tho veranda top, whoro thoy woro takon down a ladder or dropped Into tho arms of boy students stu-dents of tho Institution. |