Arizona republican., 1908-03-05

at the door. They were unable to moe it in the slightest and there was nothing at hand by which they could hope to break it down. In utter des- pair of saving any of the children they turned their attention to windows and by smashing some they managed to save a few pupils.
 They could have saved many more" said Kelley tonight If the door had not been locked. Nobody Knows how many children might have made their way out of the door. My wife reached there and if the door had not been locked or if a 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 two could do nothing and the flames spread so rapidly that it was all over in few minutes"
 The suburb of Collingwood contains about 5000 people within half mile radius. After the outbreak of the fire nearly all of them were gathered around the blazing ruins of the school house Hundreds of parents were fighting frantically with policemen
 
 the lives of the children caught in the burning building and doing their best to eXtinguish the fire.
 A FATHERS VAIN FIGHT
 The police were utterly unable through lack of numbers to keep away the crowd that pressed upon them and the situation soon became so serious that d number of the more cool headed men in the throng took it upon them selves to aid in fighting back the crowd while others helped the fire men and the police. Among the latter was Walter Upton. who reached the building shortly after the front door caved in and disclosed to the horror stricken crowd the scenes that had been enacted there. Just in front of Uptons eyes was his only ten year old daughter. helpless in the crowd and badly burned and trampled upon but still alive. The fire was close upon her. If she could not be saved at once she could not be saved at all. Upton sptang to help her with all his strength and sought to tear from her the weight that was pressing her down and from flames which were creeping close. Though he worked with iespera- tion and despair his strength was un- equal to het task. He fought on until the clothing was partly burned. and the skin of his face and hands was scorched black. Other men attempted 10 induce him to move but he refused until he saw his little girl was dead and that he could not save her life. even by sacrificing his own He then withdrew from the school house and although so seriously injured that he may die, he fingered about the place for several hours, re- fusing to go 10 a hospital or seek med ical attention. The flames spread with such rapidity that within thirty minutes from the time the fire was discovered the school house was noth- ing but few blackened walls.
 THE FINAL SCENE
 The cellar was filled with corpses and debris Bremen dashed into the blazing wreckage with rakes. forks, shOvels. and bare hands, and worked in the most frantic manner in the hope of saving a few more lives, but they were unsuccessful for none were taken alive from the ruins after the floors collapsed. Fragments of incinerated limbs and skull bones were found at almost every turn. These things were piled together on one side of the building.
 A great majority of the little bodies that came from the ruins were burned beyond all possible recognition, and no small part of the sorrow which is bear ing down upon the people of North ColIingwood is this that the positive identification of many children will never be made. Beside the children killed inside the building. three little girls. Mary Ridgeway. Anna Roth and Gertrude David were instantly killed by leaping from the attic to the ground. At midnight there were l65 bodies in the morgue of which 10S were identified and fifty-seven still un- identified. It is possible that other bodies may be found in the ruins as at least thirteen children are still miss ing and have not been heard from since