SCHOOL FIRE TRAGEDY
TEN DIE IN BURNING BUILDING HEROIC SISTER SUPERIOR Reed., noon WINNIPEG, Wednesday. A Sister Superior Margaret and nine children perished in a fire which destroyed the isolated Indian Girls’ School at Cross Lake. Manitoba. Sister Jeanne Deschantel leaped from a window and broke her spine. The building was valued at 200,000 dollars and was of three storeys. The Sister Superior heroically remained, attempting to lead the victims, all under nine years of age, through the flames. On£? hundred escaped. A bishop is flying to the scene in an airplane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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92SCHOOL FIRE TRAGEDY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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