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Show - i i" FOURTEEN CREMATED IN A CONVENT FIRE Bisters Succumb In an Effort to Gave Lives of Helpless Children. Montreal. Tho llttlo vlllogo of St. Genovlcvo Is In mourning ovor tho loss of fourteen lives In a flro which destroyed tho convent of Sto. Anno thoro early Friday. One nun, nlno children ranging In ago from 10 to 19, and four aged women perished In tho flames. Two puns woro so severely burned that it s feared thoy will dlo. In their grief ovor tho cntaBtropho tho villagers find some comfort In relating tho heroism displayed by Sister Mario Adjuteur, who gavo up her llfo, and SIstors Mario Thoreso and Mario Rob-ortlno, Rob-ortlno, who woro porhaps fatally burnod In their efforts to savo thq lives of tho children and helpless oh women In their charge Tho flro started about midnight In the old ladles' hospital, and tho smoko was so thick that tho children on tho floor abovo woro unable to get down. |