HEROIC NUN
LIVES SAVED IN FIRE
TWO QUEBEC OUTBREAKS
(Received February 17, 1.30 p.m.) QUEBEC CITY, February 16.
A heroic nun, a sister in the Order iof Seven Sorrows, gave her life to save twenty nuns and twelve girl boarding students during a fire which broke out at night and destroyed the Guardian Angel Convent which cost 100,000 dollars. When a petrol lamp exploded, spraying the nun with flames, she ran through the corridors warning out all the inmates. Her re* mains were found in the ruins three [hours later.
A thousand patients were safely removed from the St. Michael Provincial Hospital for the Insane, which is also conducted by nuns. The nuns moved through the corridors herding the screaming inmates past the steel fire doors. The institution was partly destroyed, the damage amounting to 150,000 dollars. The fire is attributed to a defective furnace.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 10
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