06 Mar 1908
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
1
A catastrophic blaze at a Cleveland school results in 165 child fatalities and many bodies recovered from ruins. Authorities attribute the tragedy to an overheated furnace, marking a horrific entry in the history of school disasters.
Parents witness tragedy as a rear exit is blocked by a raging fire and poorly executed drills. The outcome: several children perish while attempting to escape through inaccessible egress.
A furnace blaze at the North Collinwood school in Cleveland Collinwood suburb traps hundreds of pupils. The crowded two story building with limited exits collapses into a charred ruin. Death toll rises to 161 with 131 identified. many bodies unrecoverable.
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