The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05

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 to the rear, hoping to effect an entrance there and save her children. She was joined by a man. whose name is not known, and the two of them tugged and pulled frantically at the door. They were unable to move it in the slightest and there was nothing at hand by which they could hope to break 1t down. In utter despair of saving any of the children they turned their attention to the windows and by smashing some of these they managed to save few of the pupils.
 They could have saved many more," said MT. Kelley tonight, If the door had not been locked. Nobody knows how many of the children might have made their way out before my wife had reached there if the door had not been locked. If half dozen men had been there when my wife and her companion arrived at the school house perhaps they might have broken down the door, but these two could do nothing, and the flames spread so rapidly that it was all over in a few minutes"
 Frantic Parents.
 The suburb of Collnwood contains about 5000 people and within half an hour afte. the outbreak of the fire nearly every one of them was gathered around the blazing ruins of the school house, hundreds of parents fighting frantcally with the policemen and fremen, who were busily engaged in saving the lives of the chl- dren caught In the burning building and doing their best to exiting uish the fire.
 The police were utterly unable, through lack of numbers, to keep away the crowd that pressed upnn them. and tho situ- ation soon became so serious that number of more cool headed men in the throng took it upon themselves to aid in fighting back the crowd while others worked to help the fremen and police.
 Among these latter was Wallace Upton. who reached the building shortly aftef the front door had caVed in and dis closed to the horror-stricken crowd the awful scenes that had been enacted there. Just in front of Upton's eyes was his own 10-year-old daughter, helpless in the crush badly burned and trampled upon, but still alive. The fire was close upon her and if she could not be saved at once she could not be saved at all. Upton prang to help her and with all his strength sought to tear her from the weight that was pressing her down and from the flames which were creeping close.
 Fight With Death.
 
 of despair his strength was unequal to the task. He fought until his clothing was partly burned from him and the skin of his face and hands were scorched black Other men attempted to induce him to move, but he refused until he saw that his girl was dead and that he could not save her life by sacrificing his own He then withdrew from the school house and although so seriously injured that he may die, fingered about the place for several hours, refusing to go to the hos pital or to seek medical attention. The flames spread with such terrific rapidty that within 30 minutes from the time the fire was discovered the school house was nothing but few blaekened walls sur rounding a cellar filled with eorpses and debris.
 The firemen dashed into the blazing wreckage and with rakes, forks, showers and their bare hands, worked In the most frantic manner with the hone of saving few more lives. Tn ey were unsuccessful for none was taken out alive from the ruins after th,, floors collapsed. Fragments of inciner- ated limbs, skulls and bones were found almost at every turn, and these things were piled together in a little heap at one side of the building.
 Never To Be Identified.
 The great majority of little bodies that were taken from the ruins were burned beyond all possible recognition. And it is no small part of the sorrow which is bearing down the people of North Collinwood that positive iden- tification of many of the children will never be made. Besides the children who were killed inside the building three little girls, Mary Ridgeway, Anna ID A,t, IA.. ly killed by leaping from the attic to the ground Miss Ethel Rose, q teacher on the first floor of the btlill- ing whose pupils were youngest in the school, managed to get all but three of her children out of the build ing in safety. The three smaller ones she carried in her arms.
 Miss Anna Moran, the principal or the school and two of the teach CTS Miss Gollmar and Miss Rowley, escaped by one of the windows in the rear. They remained with thes panic stricken children until they could do no more for them and sought their own safety.
 Broke Through Window.
 Miss Laura Bodet the only teacher on the third floor formed her pupils in line and marched them down to the second floor, where, finding the f1am4s rushing up the stairway she turncl them around and hurried them back again to the third floor. She broke window with a chair and getting onto the platform of the fire escape. lifted out her pupils one by one and sent them down. Four or five children, who broke the line she had formed, ran down the stairway and were all killed.
 One of the heroines of the catastrophe was little Mary Witman or o2l7 Lake street She ran through the smoke-flled halls and grasped her little brother, whom she managed to drag from the room and take out through a window. both of them being nearly strangled with Smoke. Another teacher. Miss Pearl Lynn, narrowly escaped death. She was carried toward the rear entrance by the rush of the panic-stricken pupils,