CONVENT ON FIRE.
;: : p V,:''.NUNS LOWER CHILDREN, FROM BURN. ING HOUSE'. • : 7 ; Scenes of heroism on the part'of nuns were witnessed-iii a .fire- ou'''l?ebruary ■ 10' at' the. Convent' .of . the :Sacred Heart,. housed in Fenham Old Hall,'; Newcastle-on-Tyno. • . - "; In the convent -girls' school and training college' some fifty nuns and ohildren were living. The fire broke, out 'in tho- upper stories and spread' with .great rapidity,■-,cut-ting off' all! escape by' the staircases.';,'. .; Tho mother- superior, however, assisted by a sister, succeeded in 'getting her charges all safely, out of tho burning building. : Theyimprovised'ropes from sheets and lot' tho J 'cliildren down thirty foot, on to tho ground. They were mostly ih their 1 night clothes.'' -' Witlr air tho children; out,-the! nuns, who had'no assistance in their heavy task,= themselves; slid doW-n' the rope's, - the mother superior bpiug last' to leave,' and- then being caught in a sheet as she dropped, "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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150CONVENT ON FIRE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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