The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-15
Full Details of the Terrible
Disaster-List of the
Dead and Injured.
Twenty-Six Pupils, Five Sis,
tiers and the Mother Su-
perior Perish in the
Flames.

grown all girls and several teachers.
There were no other inmates In the build
ing
The fire is .id TO have started In the
rear Of the third story, which was used as
dorlnitory, aud an atiemp t was made by
the sisters to e1tingui>h the flames, but
this failing efforts were made To remove
the pupils. The flames spread so rapidly,
however, that no order could be preserved,
and panic seized both sisters and children,
and there was wild confusion in the rush
to escspe. Forty or more pupils are
known 10 have got out or were taken from
the building and gi ven shelter In neigh
boring houses, but several, ia their fright,
iamped from the windows, and were either
killed or badly injured. Miss Mary
Cam belI, teacher of East 81. Louis,
leaped from the third story and died in
few minutes One other, nsme not ascer-
tained, climbed to the roof of porticO
aud either fell or was blown off and fatally
injured.
TIE INJURED.
Among other. injured by jumping are,
Baisy Eberman, residence tour miles from
BeIlville.
Agnes Schneider and Lou Mott of Eas,
st. Louis.
Fanny Renker of Washington, Mo.
Sister Repsrta
Sister Stlllta.
Sister Manussa.
Fifteen 10 twenty smaller pupils.
Also Sister Mary jerome.
The lady superior was missing at late
hsur last night, and it was feared by some
of them that she persisted In the building.
Sesrching parties are actively at work to-
dav, and no further information has been
obtained.
The scene at the fire was one OF the wild
est excitement and terror. The str cts in
the vicinity were thronged with people
anxious TO be of service, but owing 10 the
rapid spread of The flames, were helpless to
render aid. While terror stricken parents
rushed franticaly around searching for
their missing children, and weeping over
their supposed loss.
The fire department was Of little avail
against the m id rush OF the surging flames,
and in an hour the entire bnilGing was In
ruins.
Another report says the fire started from
the furnace in the basement, and this Seems
the most probable on examination. as the
flames spread upward, thus cutting off most
Of the exits and compelling some OF the pu-
pills and sisters to leap from windows.
LATER.
The following dispatch from Belleville
to the Associated Pres gives further par
ticulars of the frightful calamity by fire a.
the convent Notre Dame last night. Ii
was the most destructive Of life and prop
erty BelIeville has ever exp,r ience. A
visit to the scene this morning found the
the fire department still on duty endeav-
oring to quench the flames, SO as TO pre-
serve in recognizable shape the bodies of
the victims. When the ruins had sHff
sientiy cooled volunteer corps of men
went to work to bring out the bodies Ii
was terrible sight. AT times the search
ers would find two or three charred masses
hsddled close together, seemingly seeking
protection In one another from The advanc-
ing and terrible flames. Two bodies were
found in the rear of the building burned
into an unacceptable mass, and the ma
jority were found beneath where the dor
mortary was situated They seemed 10
have sought shelter in this room when
they recognized that their escape was i'm
possible. The flames beneath, eating
away the supports, let down the floor into
seething vortex IF Ere and smoke.
The loss of life is much greater than
mentioned In last n gifts brief dispatch.
Instead of being two, as at first supposed,
the total known deaths are twenty-seven,
twenty two Of which are pupils and five
sisters. Among the latter was the mother
superior.
Ga the fourth floor the pupil boarders,
with three sisters, slept. Ga the third
floor the remaining sisters slept, and on
the second, or floor above the basement,
were what are termed orphans and half or
phans slept. On this second floor the in
mates escaped and were saved. The FOL
lswing is list of the saved.
THE SAVED
Prone Schleruiizewr.
Name FITZGERALD.
Anna Feankie.
Maggie Donohue.
Ora Montgomery.
Emile Fournie.
On this floor also were the following can
didates for the veil who escaped:
Miss Josephine.
Miss Bridget.
Aiss Johanna.
Miss Gretahen.
Miss Eliza.
Martha Mauntel, of Carondelet, Mo.
Mary Bartelles.
Miss Cert
Josephine Ploudre daughter OF County
Commissioner Ploudre; of Centerville sta
lion, Ill.
Lolita Pierson, of st Louis.
Susie Wilmar, of st Louis.
Emma Stark, of Carbonate, Ill.
Mamie Scaling, of St. Louis.
Agnes Scaling. of St. Louis
Lizzie Ish of Centerville station.
Laura Thompson, of Chester, Ill.
Mamie Pulse, of Columbia, Ill.
Minnie Bailey, of Belleville
Hilder Hammel, of Trenton, Ill.
Emily Leonhardt, of Trenton.
Virginia Heinzelmbn, of Belleville.