The story of the Collinwood fire/school disaster - It was Ash Wednesday, March the fourth 1908, a typical winter day for the students of Lake view as they went to their classes which began at 8.45am. There were approximately 336 in the school. Emma Neibert, a fifth-grader, spotted smoke rising from a basement storage cupboard beneath the main stairway at 9:30 a.m. Fritz Hirter, the janitor, was immediately told, and he rang the fire bell and opened the front and back doors. Because the fire originated just beneath the main stairwell, the front escape was totally blocked by flames in a matter of minutes. When the students discovered the front escape was blocked, they all made a rush for the rear exit.

One of the children fell which caused them to pile up on top of one another, completely blocking the exit. The children began to suffocate which caused many to jump from the upper floors resulting in their death. Niles Thompson, nine, leaped out of a window when he saw the fire developing. He quickly realised his little brother was still trapped inside and went back into the school to save him, sadly none of the brothers made it out alive.

Collinwood's small volunteer fire brigade and horse-drawn engines arrived tbut were no match for the fire. The three floors and roof of the Lakeview School collapsed into the basement in less than an hour, leaving just a hollowed-out brick ruin. This resulted in the deaths of 172 students, two teachers and one rescuer. Many parents stood by and watched as their children burnt just feet away from safety. Many families lost several or all of their children. 19 bodies could not be identified.

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