. Complete story of the Collinwood school disaster and how such horrors can be prevented . CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF THE FIRE. FIRE WRECKS BIG SCHOOL—CHILDREN PERISHBY THE SCORE. In a horror without parallel in the history of Americanschools, 172 children and two women teachers lost theirlives when Lake View School, North Collinwood, Ohio,burned on the morning of March 4, 1908. Ten minutesafter the fire was discovered half the families in the prettylittle suburb of Cleveland were in mourning, and the na-tion, informed by telegraph of the soul-stirring disaster,was in tears. Three little girls co
. Complete story of the Collinwood school disaster and how such horrors can be prevented . CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF THE FIRE. FIRE WRECKS BIG SCHOOL—CHILDREN PERISHBY THE SCORE. In a horror without parallel in the history of Americanschools, 172 children and two women teachers lost theirlives when Lake View School, North Collinwood, Ohio,burned on the morning of March 4, 1908. Ten minutesafter the fire was discovered half the families in the prettylittle suburb of Cleveland were in mourning, and the na-tion, informed by telegraph of the soul-stirring disaster,was in tears. Three little girls coming from the basement saw the janitor sounded the alarm a mass of flames wassweeping up the stairways from the basement. Before the children on the upper floors could reach theground floor egress was cut off and they perished. It was all over almost before the frantic fathers andmothers who gathered realized that their children weredoomed. School officials believed at first that an incendiarystarted the fire. They were forced to that conclusion aftereliminating all othe
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