The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-20
SCHOOL BURNS;
 ALL ARE SAVED
Eighty Children March From Blazing HighwoOd Structure at Teachers Orders = Not a Sign of Panic

New Haven, Nov. 20-Placing the 1 lives of about 90 school children in Jeopardy, a fire caused by an over heated furnace, totally destroyed High minute after the two young teachers l In charge led the long file of school
 children from the burning building to safety The presence of mind of Miss Helen Sullivan of 579 Orange street and Miss Catherine Lenahan of 54 William street. the two young teachers what might have been a holocaust. The fire was discovered simultaneous
 lY by the two teachers who led the i children from the building. leaving them under the impression that they were to have a short recess"
 1 The afternoon session had been on 1 had charge of the room on the sec ond floor, detected an odor of smoke coming from the register in the wall. | The young woman believed at the 1 time that the furnace in the cellar had not been properly attended to and called one of her pupils, Edward the draughts.' While young Hanson walked leisure1y down the stairs, Miss Sullivan who had charge of the room
 below, detected the burning odor and left her room to investigate. The door leading to the cellar was forced open by the young woman and the boy and a great puff of smoke shooting out of the aperture caused them to spring back. The cellar was mass of flames and itfwas but matter of but a few seconds before the fire would break through the flooring.
 Miss Sullivan, with admirable nerve,
 grasped the boy by the arm and told him to go to the second floor and tell his teacher, in a whisper that the school was afire. The boy became ex- cited and would have shouted but for the fact that the young teacher press ed-her- hand over his mouths----- The school room on the first floor was partly filled with smoke when time rem aimed before the entire build 1 ing would be converted into a burning ! mass. The young teacher. srasped her her children that there was Something the matter with the fnrnace.1 The pupils left their seats and stood in I smoky hall and finally reaching the l front door where the monitor wait ed for the teachers word 50 file out Tn the meantime, Hanson, the boy sent down to investigate the furnace trou b1e. walked into the school room on the second floor stepped to tf7e 1 teachers desk and delivered his mes To cali for a recess was. the first plan that came to Miss Lenahan'e mind and in a few seconds the long 1 line of over forty pupils were walk l ing. in single. file to the door of the room Hanson stood by and kept them in line while the teacher held the door open. A =
 The children were taken from the burning building just in time. The
 flames closed in on the school just as the teachers in the rEAr of the long 1 line Of children, were leaving Miss Lenaf1an in her haste to help out the little ones, forgot her belongings and was about to returnsto her room for her pocketbook,s which contained .$s and all the change she had, when the flames cut off her entrance. Miss sul- -firan whose room was on the hrst floor. made her way through the smoke filled hall and took her regis try book from her desk just as sheet of flames swept through the wall in front of her. She suffered som ewhat from the effects of the smoke but pluckily kept hold of her registry book and left the building few sec onds before part Of the burning roof began to fall inwards.