SCHOOL ON FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 7

SCHOOL ON FIRE.

CORRIDORS BLOCKED. THE CHILDREN PANIC-STRICKEN. PUSHING AND STRUGGLING FOR LIFE. MANY BURNEP TO DEATH. • PY TELEGRAPH —Pit ESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Rec. March 5, 9.45 p.m.) New York, March 5. The Lake View Gornmon School, at Cleveland, Ohio, attended by 360 children ransing from five to fourteen years of age, has beep burned. The fire commenced in the basement of a six-storied building during morning school. • ' The smoke quickly filled the building, creating a panic, all the classes becoming terror-stricken simultaneously. The children-on {he upper floors rushed ' pell-mell down stairs, only, to find the lower corridors already blocked by chil? dren from the-lower class-rooms. All ■ were pushing and struggling for their lives. - . Miss Moran, the principal of the girls' school, w|io escape?],! the children ivero made mad, and rushed to thedoors and windows, it being 'Impossible to Uesp them in check, though they had been taught how'to act'in tho ievent of fire. There wsro only two exits, and the back one was blocked. The other doorway also soon became blocked with fall- \ ing children, who were trampled by . those pressing behind. ;