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to save themselves through an inside staircase but were stopped by the flames. The whole boy's dormitory was in flames. The older girls were heroic in guiding the younger girls to safety. Father
Francois Gagnon almost suffocated. In the blink of an eye the building was totally engulfed in flames. The furnaces had been checked just three days previously. Sister Lea (Elise Bellerose) and nineteen boys, from the ages of 7 to 12, died." wrote the principal of the school Father Mederic Adam. (translation) "The burnt remains of the twenty victims were buried in two caskets." wrote Father Penard.(translation)
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