BOYS BURNED TO DEATH
THIRTY-SIX LIVES LOST QUEBEC SCHOOL AFIRE By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright QUEBEC, Saturday. Another disastrous fire occurred in Quebec yesterday and destroyed the St. Louis Academy, a boarding school for boys, which was conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. It is known that 36 lives have been lost. Two hundred of the inmates were rescued. The damage is estimated at £50,000. The number known to have perished is the same as the number of children known to have lost their lives in the fire which, on Wednesday, destroyed the Hospice of St. Charles. In the latter case 37 bodies were recovered, and all but one were those of children, while of the victims still missing 17 are girls.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 9
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126BOYS BURNED TO DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 9
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