HEROIC NUN
FIRE IN A CONVENT WARNING GIVEN INMATES OUTBREAK IN AN ASYLUM United Press Assn.—Eleo. k'ei. Copyright) (Received Feb. 17, 3 p.m.) QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 16 A heroic nun, a Sister of Seven Sorrows, gave her life to save twenty nuns and twelve girl boarding students during a night fire which caused damage to the extent of 100,000 dollars at the Guardian Angel Convent when a petrol lamp exploded, spraying the nun with flames. She ran through the corridors warning all the inmates to leave. Her remains were found in the ruins of the convent three hours later. A thousand patients were safely removed from the Saint Michael Provincial Hospital for the Insane, also aonducted by nuns, who moved through the corridors herding the screaming insane past the steel fire doors. The institution was partially destroyed.
Damage was done amounting to 150,000 dollars. The fire is attributed to a defenctive furnace.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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152HEROIC NUN Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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