The bee., 1884-01-12
AN ILLINOIS CONVENT BURNED.
TwENTY-sEvEN OF rHENMArEsLosT


The convent a Belleville, Illinois, has been
destroyed by fire. There were sixty female
pupils between ten and twenty years of age,
and number of other inmates besides the
Sisters. An attempt was made by the Sisters
TO eItinguish the flames, but this failing
efforts were made to save the pupils. The
fire spread so rapidly that order could not be
preserved, and panic seized both the chill
dren and Sisters, all making wild, confused
rush to escape. Miss Mary Campbell, of East
st. Louis, teacher, leaped from the third
story and died in few minutes. Another
climbed to the roof portico, and either fell
or was blown of, sustaining fatal injuries
Among the Others injured By jumping are
Daisy Eberman, who resides four miles from
Belleville; Agnes Schneider and Lon Mott,
of East St. Louis; Fannie Renker, of Wash
ington, No.; Sister Reparata, Sister Stylita
and Sister Manussa.
HThe loss of life is much greater than at
first estimated. Instead of two, as at hrst
supposed, the total known deaths are 27---22
pupils and sisters. Among the latter is the
Sister Superior.
The convent was known as the Institute of
the Immaculate Conception, and was con-
Quoted by the Sisters Of Notre Dame. The
fire was the most destructive TO life and
property that BelleVille has ever expsrisnced.
Park Theatre. at Cleveland, Ohio, recently
erected at cost of $50, ,ol0. has been burned
to the ground The First Presbyterian
Church adjoining the theatre was also burned
out. Insurance on the church, 81, Goo; on
the theatre, $4,000. No lives were lost.
The inmates Of Chicago's most stylish
apartment-house. the Beaurivage, just south
Of th Leland Hotel on the lake front, were
alarmed by the cry Of fire. There were more
than one hundred persons in the building.
Half clad in their night clothes, affriRhted
families escaped from the building and across
the icy street to the Leland Hotel. One sick
lady, Mrs. Turner, from fat No. Is, had to
be carried wrapped in wooden blanket by
the patrol. 1t is asserted, notwithstanding
the expensiveness of the of the appointments
of the house, there was no private watchman
employed. At four o'clock the temperature
was % degrees below zero. Eleven engines
were pouring volumes of water into every
! floor of the Beaurivage, and the men who
manned the hose were almost rigid, being
coated with ice from head to foot. num-
Der of the inmates escaped by the ladders at
the peril of their lives, everything being
coated with ice, and many had their fingers.
toes and ears frozen before they could reach
the Leland, only block away.
At st. Louis fire broke out in the old st.
Nicholas Hotel building on Fourth street,
which resulted in its total destruction.
Three boys, while out hunting near Elmira,
N. z, found the body Of young woman
frozen solidly in the ice in stream under a
wagon bridge.
The cold weather has seriously interferred
with navigation on Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries.
There is quite petroleum excitement in
Sandy Valley, KY, some fifty five miles from
Catlettsburg. One well has obtained depth
of 1000 feet.
People in Terre Haute, Ind, have boycott
ted the telephone company there, and have
ordered all the instruments taken from their
houses, because of high prices. A new COM
pany will be organized.