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Show IE DESK SCHOOL Bil SCHOOL. TEACHER 18 HEROINE IN BLAZE 17 PUPIL8 INJURED IN FALL TO GROUND Teacher Strives Desperately to save Ward; Funeral Party Halta to Aid Children Who Were Be. ing Lowered from Windowa Covington, Oh. Two d;d and 88 injured was the toll taken in the burn-Ing burn-Ing of the High 'Point' Community school house near here Wednesday, when the structure In which !H children chil-dren were engaged in studies was destroyed de-stroyed by lire. A caw fur check today to-day showed that all the others had be'-n accounted for and identified. The dead were James Steele, 8,-yeni son of John J. Steele, and the 8-yeai old son of Charles ltucjitlor. These pupils were In the room of Mis. Oscar Orunt, who heroically stood by the window and dropped forty children to the ground b?for the lloor of her room gave away, ard she wiis engulfed In the flumes. She was unable to save the two boys who were lost In the smoke. Investlga tion showed seventeen children were sulTring from broken limbs as a re-Bid re-Bid of the twenty-foot drop. A funeral iwrty pnsilng the school discovered smoke pouring out of the windows. The procession halted and the men and women of the party rescued many of the children. An overheated stove Is believed to have caused the fire. The school house was a two story frame building, build-ing, situated In a prosperous farming community. Authorities Buy the building build-ing hud been condemned as a flr trap more than a year ago and funds had -hen provided for a new Are proof building. .The erection of the new school was delnye l because of a dissension among residents as to Rs locution. |