DEVASTATING FIRES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10241, 2 September 1909, Page 4

DEVASTATING FIRES.

[By Electric TjjLKGHArii—■Coi'yiuciit.] (I'kr Pkess Association.) CHARITABLE HOME liIJRNEI). Received September 2, at 8.45 a.m. New York, September l. The fire at -tlie St. Malaehi I lonic eaused 10 de'aths. Six hundred of the inmates escaped. The nuns literally dragged 200 out of the burning building. A Sister saved 05 babies from a smoke-filled nursery, carrying them two in each arm, from their cots to the lop of the staircase, where four of the older girls carried them to the yard.