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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11.

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Collinwood School Fire

ONE of the most terrible holocausts of school children that has ever occurred in this country was that which took place at Collinwood, Ohio, on March 4, when the public school building containing several hundred children caught fire and was destroyed. In the conflagration one hundred seventy-one children and two teachers were burned to death. Nearly every home in the vicinity is in mourning, and many families have lost two and three children. The cause of this terrible loss of life is not certainly known, but it is believed to have been due to a stampede of the frightened children.