Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-07
A CONVENT BURNED.
scenes Of Terror Among Pupils and
Teachers Several Lives Lost and
Many Missing.

bellevue, III, DuFneu NJ eleven q clOCF
last night involving loss OF 500 O0I
TO $l25 900. Details are still meager
There We're about sixty pupils in tn,
: school ranging from ten years to full
grown, all girls, and several teachers
besides other inmates OF the building
! The fire is said To have started in the
rear Of tho third story, which wa.
used as Il dUrmitUry, and an attempt
was made by the sisters to eXtinguisll
it, but this failing, efforts were made
to remove the pupils, The flames
spread So rapidly that no order could
be preserved, and Il panic seized both
the children and the sisters. There
WAS wild, confused rush to escape.
Forty or more pupils are
known to have gotten ont
or were taken from the building and
given shelter in the neighboring
houses, but seV 4ral In their fright
Jumped rom the windows and were
either killed or badly injured. Miss
Mary Campbell, teacher from st
Louis, leaped from the third story and
died in q few minutes. Another, whose
name was not ascertaiued, climbed on
The roof of the pOrtiro, and either
I Jumped or was blown or and fatally
| injured. Among others injured
/ by jumping are Daisy Ebermun,
whose residence is four miles from
| Believille: Agnes Schneider and Lou
/ Mott OF East IT. Louis; Fanny Rinker
of Washington, No. Sitter Reparata,
Sister StSliia and Sister Msnussa.
Fifteen or twenty Of the smaller pupils,
and also Sister Mary Jerome, the lady
superior, were missing 1t late hour
last night, and it was feared some Of
them had persisted in The bGiIding.
Searching parties are actively at work
to day. The scene AT the fire l. one OF
widest excitement and terror. Tine
streets in the vicinity were thrOnged
with people anxious t be OF service,
but owing 20 the rap d spread OF the
flames they were helpless, while the I!
terror stricken parents rushed iranti- /
cgl'y around searching for their miss
ing ch ldren, and waiting over their
supposed loss. The tire department
WAS OF little avail against the mad (
rush uf the surgin= flames. aud in an
hour the entire building was a mass of {.
ruins. Another report says The fire ,
started from iHrnunre in the base T
mrnt and This seems most probable,
~ the Fl mes spread toward the stair
ways, cutting of most Of the escape
sisters 10 cap from the Windows.
LATER ~ dispatch is lust received
from Beilevjlle that the Oodlc, of TWEEN
ty-twu pupils and five teachers, iu-
GLIDING the mother superior, are either !
recovered or known TO toe in the ruins |
@tli later. The following di,ua ch
from Rei!eNllle 70 the Associated Press !
gives further par icular,: The cal IN.
~ oi the ire at the convent OF Notre .
Dame Inst night was Us destructive as i
BclItFi!ie hcs ever experienced. This l
morning found thc lire department on
duty SILL cndcaNu!iug 20 uucnch the
Naue- 50 a> - preserves tcDgniHablc
shape of The bodies Of the victims
When the ruins had sufficiently cool
ed, volunteer corps of men went To-
work al bringing cut the bodies. The
sight was terrible At times the
searchers would find two or three
charred masses huddlcd cl, sc together.
seemingly seeking protection from one
another against the advancing ana
terrible flames. Two bodies found inI
the rear part We're burned into an NM
recognizable mas" but the minority
were FOUND beneath where the dorni-
loIy was situated. They seemed to
nave sought shelter in this room. and
too late recognized that their escape
was Impossible. The flames beneaih
eating away The supports, let down
the ioor into the seethiug vortex /
Oh IRE aud smoke. IN
stead OF being two, as first
supposed, the total known deaths num-
Der TWEEN y-seven, twenty-five Of whom
are pupils and five sisters, among the
latter the sister superior. On the
fourth floor the pupil boarders. with
thrce sisters, slept. On the third floor
The remaining sisters slept, and on thu.
second, or floor abUre the basement.
what are termed the orphans ANA half
orphans slept On this second floor
the ihfaies escaped aud were
saved. The follwing IL a list
81 the saved: R0Xie : .hlernifzsner.
Mamie Fitzgerald, Anna Frank.I
Agnes Sealing Of 1t. Louis: Lizzie
isth OF Centreyille Station; Laura
thompson Of Chester, m. Mamie
rulse of Columbia; Minnie Bailey of
Bsileytlle; Hlda Hammet Of Trenton,
~; Emily Leonbardt OF Tcenton;
nireihln Henselman of Bellevillc:
hltty l hana oil Nandalia: Gertrude
= inhktt Of Germany; Mary Bien of
y lieyiile; Mary Manning OF 81. Louis;
ilelphia '>chIeTnitzuer of Belleyjlle:
,napSie Duhahue, Ora Montgomery,
I'mlIa tournie. ON this II or were the
Iolio"!ng candidates Tor The veil. who
escaped: Miss Josephine, Miss Bird.
~, Mrs .iollanne, Miss Grechian.
MISS Eliza. The missing are: Mar
ina Mauntel OF Corandeet Mo; Mary
bar'eis OF Missouri; Josephine Pau
rre, daughter of County Commissioner
, ,landre; of Centreville station, Ills:
i;otia Person of st. Louis; susie
Weimer of ~. Louis: Emma
,3lafk of Carbondale, Ills;
Mamie Scaling of St. Louis;
9isler superior Mary Jerome, and
BAILEY WAS the grand. duuphfnr of CoI n
Ohm Thomas OF this city; Sister Mary ,
'er9hie was known in the world rs
5arDnra Nj and was from pittsDurp.
ri sister Mudrida, known az Jennie
s,ley; was born near milwaukee,; Sis /
er tdwina, known us Bridget McCnr-
Iey, WAS born I'm Iraland nnd S,sr,,. ,