A CANADIAN HORROR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1907, Page 1

A CANADIAN HORROR.

A CANADIAN HORROR. THE FIBE AT THE MONTREAL SCHOOL. -j The recent fire in a. Montreal school, 1 by which seventeen . pupils and a teach- ' er, Miss Maxwell, were burned to death, has been - described as Canada's most awful calamity of the kind. The school was an old., ramshackle building, with tho kindergarten on the second floor. There was not a single fireoscape, and it was a terrible moment for the principal, Miss Maxwell, when it was discovered that a fire had broken out in the cellar. Th.B principal, without alarming her pupils, told them to get their clothes and hurry home,, and the other teachers v.-er.; rapidly fnsj.-ucted to issue the sams orders. Ml the children on the ground floor were got safely away. With remarkable quickness the lire brigade was on the spat, and the extension ladder waß got up to one of the second floor windows, behind which tho frightened children could he seen cowering 'with a seething furnace of smoko .and flame filling the space below. TheBremen formed a chain along the ladder for the rescue of the little ones, who wore handed down by Miss Maxwel, and passed from hand to hand to safety. The firemen worked like heroes rt their f>slc, though they were being sprayed all the time by hose, and ttno water was freezing on them as it fell. But tha firo spread with inconceivable quickness, and it was impossible to save al! the children. When all thoso ch'ldren about the window had been hinded down, the captain of the fire brigade called to Miss Maxwell to save herself. "No, there are others inside and we must save them," was her reply, and the intrepid teacher rushed back wte^a room filled with smoke, v.haro the- firemen dared not follow her ♦ T fe loS v of Hfe mi 6ht have been less terrible, but there had not been a fof practice m the -school for months and when. the children in the upper stories first saw, smoke a5-.onJi^ by the stlfr case, many of them feared to u ** iL run which would have led to safetv d-r-d if tl o^ Yl!S 6M ' While tl]e >- »'on?kl i he,r cW'dren would bo nmon ff the saved or would be left to perish i* tso hnramg building. For Children's Hacking Cough at nitfht Woods' Great rsppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s od* IJr