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Show WITH MY EXIT BLOCKED BY I FLAMES, TEACHER HURLS SMALL I CHARGES FROM 20-FOOT WMDQW School Where Horror Occurred Had Been Condemned Con-demned as Fire Trap, But Quarrel Among Residents Had Held Up Construction of New Building. COVINGTON, Ga., Nov 29 Two dead and 38 injured was the toll taken in the burning of the High Point community school houso near here Tuesday when the structure in which 99 children were engaged en-gaged in studies was destroyed by fire. A careful check today showed that all the others had been accounted for and identified. The dead were James Steele, little son of John J. Steele, and tho 8-year-old son of Charles Bechelor. Investigation today showed seventeen of the children were suffering suf-fering from broken limbs, a3 the result of the twenty-foot drop. I School authorities early today were endea orlng to recheck the list of injured in-jured In hopes of lowering tho misdnrr I number. Practically all of the chll- J' dren. most seriously burned, are jd Si. ito be under 10 years of age. Two oC I those who are believed to have lost their lives were eight years of age PUPILS IN SCHOOL, "here were 12S pupils registered ir the school. 99 of them werf present "ih. look at the pretty white dust." exclaimed one of the children in th' ioom of Mrs. Oscar (irant, located orfJ l the second floor of the building The 'dust' 'was smoke coming from the door, single egress from the room., Mrs. Grant found the room cut off1 by the fire with 40 small children in her room. She told the children to line up. The ground was about 20' I feet below. OWN CHILD VICTIM. The teacher pushed her own child. 'Mary Pearl from the window and then began lowering the other children chil-dren As the flames entered the room.i Marv Pearl Grant was next In lino Her1 mother threw her bodily out of the window. Hums, a fractured leg and ill! Internal Injuries were suffered by tho child. Throo children remained in the lin. when the flames engulfed them and Mrs, Grant, with her clothing aflro Jumped from the window. Doctors say she Is suffering from burns, a fractured limb and in'-rn.i". Injuries. FUNERAL PARTY TO RESCUE A funerai party passing the school u I discovered smoke pouring fronf th windows. The procession was halted and the men and women of the partv flllj rescued many of the children. Duo to the widel scattered home. into which the Injured have been temporarily tem-porarily placed Is making the work o. chccklng up the school roll difficult An overheated stove ls believed to have caused the fire. The school house was a two-story frame build- H ing, situated In a prosperous farming section. Authorities say the bulldlmr had been condemned as a fife trap moro than a year ago and funds had been provided for a new fire-proof building. The erection of the new ,,'jt school was delayed because of a dissension dis-sension among residents as to Its location. |