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SUMMARY:Little Sisters of the Poor Fire\, Pittsburgh\, PA (1931)
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DESCRIPTION:Little Sisters of the Poor Fire\, Pittsburgh\, PA (1931) -- Th
 irty persons were known to be dead\, twenty were missing and more than 100
  were in hospitals after a fire had destroyed the home for the aged of the
  Little Sisters of the Poor here tonight.
Most of the dead were aged and
  infirm inmates of the home which was located at the corner of South Aiken
  and Penn avenues\, in the East End district.
The fire which apparently 
 started in the lower part of the building near the institution's morgue\, 
 was first sighted by a nearby resident who turned in the alarm. Six alarms
  were sounded in rapid succession as the seriousness of the situation was 
 discerned\, and firemen and police were called from all parts of the city.
 
250 Inmates In Home At Time.
In the home at the time the fire started
  were 250 inmates\, about evenly divided between men and women.
The flam
 es quickly spread through the home and many aged persons could be steen st
 anding at windows screaming for help. Nuns and Brothers of a religious ord
 er aided the firemen in the work of rescue. After a four hour fight the fi
 re was brought under control and rescue parties entered the smouldering ru
 ins in a search for further bodies.
The Mother Superior of the Instituti
 on was among those most active in assisting the elderly men and women from
  the building. After the fire had spread so that it was dangerous for anyo
 ne to enter\, she had to be forcibly detained from further attempts at res
 cue.
Six of the missing were volunteer rescue workers who entered the bu
 ilding in search of bodies.
30\,000 Persons View Flames.
Police battle
 d an estimated crowd of 30\,000 persons who gathered as the flames lighted
  up the skies.
Most of the inmates of the home were all but helpless bef
 ore the fire. All were old and most of them suffering from infirmities.

 Seven women were trapped in a third floor room among them a MRS. MARY KLIN
 E\, 80\, who is blind.
"I just got down on my knees and prayed to God\,"
  she said\, "and then I was rescued."
Despite the care given those rescu
 ed from the home\, DR. W. HOARD EVANS said he believed that the shock of t
 he tragedy would be fatal to many because of their extreme age. All those 
 in the home were more than 60 years old.
Dead Not Identified Hours After
  Fire.
Hours after the fire the dead could not be identified except in a
  few cases.
In the Penn avenue and South Aiken avenue courts of the burn
 ing building\, scores of volunteers massed on a stout fire escape and pass
 ed inmates from hand to hand until they were brought to the ground.
With
 out the assistance of the many volunteers most of them young men from the 
 nearby balloon field district of the city\, firemen would have been unable
  to cope with the situation. Scores of neighbors who hurried to the home a
 s the first cry of "fire" was heard said they were unable to enter the gro
 unds because heavy iron gates to the sidewalk and drive way were closed.
 
Many of the volunteer rescuers scaled the high stone walls about the in
 stitution and firemen arriving a few minutes later battered down the gates
  to get equipment inside.
In some instances ladders placed against the w
 alls of the building were burned away before firemen could mount them. The
 n the life nets were brought out and many of the aged occupants whom firem
 en could not reach jumped to safety.
All Records Of Home Saved.
Fire d
 epartment officials said that all records containing the names of the home
 's residents had been saved and with the air of these records they started
  a final check on the dead and missing.
The cause of the fire has not be
 en determined. From the first floor where it apparently started\, it sprea
 d rapidly to other sections of the home.
Oxygen was administered on the 
 lawn to many of the victims and beside them reposed hly images salvaged by
  the faithful on occasion at the risk of their lives. MRS. MARGARET CONNEL
 L\, 75\, one of the many who tried to aid feeble and ill fellow-inmates to
  safety told how women battled againse suffocation and heat.
Aged Woman 
 Describes Holocaust.
"We were almost suffocating\," MRS. CONNELL said. "
 The women had to run from window to window for air. Sister PASCALINO in ch
 arge of the floor made them stick their heards out and breathe before goin
 g on. There were no lights and the heat on the floor was intense. I felt t
 oo wrak to go on. I sand back on a bed and a fireman carried me out."
Si
 ster PASCALINO remained at her post directing rescue efforts and refused t
 o leave until the floor was cleared.
One body was taken from the ruins a
 ppeared to be that of a nun. It was clad in block clothes not unlike that 
 of a habit. A number of other sisters collapsed while bringing inmates fro
 m the doomed structure.
A score or more of priests from various parts of
  the city risted their lives in the flaming home to administer last rites 
 to the dying.\n
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