... School Fire occurred on December 1, 1958. The fire was started in the basement of the Catholic grade school in Chicago. The school was a two story building with about 1,600 students in Kindergarten through 8th grade. The official cause of the fire has never been determined, however, all indications point to arson. A ten ... only way left to escape was to jump to the concrete and rock below the windows. Some of the nuns, left with no way to escape, had the children sit in a circle in the middle of their classroom and pray until the intense smoke forced them to go to the windows for air. Th...

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