MANY LIVES SAVED
HEROISM' OF A NUN FIRE IN INSTITUTION MEETS FATE IN FLAMES QUEBEC, Feb. 16 A heroic nun, a Sister of the Seven Sorrows, gave her life to save 20 other nuns and 12 girl boarding students in a fire which destroyed the 100,000dollars Guardian Angel Convent last night. When a petrol lamp exploded, spraying the nun with flames, she ran through the corridors warning all the inmates to leave the building.* Her remains were found in the ruins three hours later.
One thousand patients were safely removed from the St. Michael Provincial Mental Hospital, also conducted by nuns, who moved through the corridors herding the screaming inmates past steel fire doors. The institution was partly destroyed, the dar/age being estimated at 150,000 dollars. The fire is attributed to a defective furnace.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 13
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