The Collinwood school flame (also known as Lakeview Fire School ) erupted on 4 March 1908, killing 172 students, two teachers and one rescuer in one of the deadliest school disasters in history United States of America.
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The Lakeview School is a fire trap, although the same designed buildings can be found throughout the nation. During a fire, the school mason exterior acts as a chimney, sucking a fire upward as the wooden interior burns. Open stairs and the absence of a fire break increase the effect of the chimney. Lakeview only has two exits and fire quickly blocked the front door. The children rush to the back door, but, in the front room narrowed by the partition, they stumble and climb on top of each other, forming a pile that completely blocks the exit. Although later accounts sometimes portray children pinned to swinging doors inside, the doors of Lakeview open outward. The front room, however, creates an impassable obstacle for the crowds trying to break through it. The small fire department and Collinwood horse mower arrived late and were not ready to fight the fire in front of them. In less than an hour, the three floors and the roof of the Lakeview School collapsed into the dungeon, leaving only the ruins of bricks. Almost half of the children and two teachers in the building died.
The origins of fire are still uncertain, although explanations are mushrooming. Newspapers circulate a lot of possibilities, sometimes blaming the janitor of the building, Fritz Hirter, for not being attentive and running the boiler overheating. At other times, girls who smoke in closet closets near flammable materials are under surveillance. A completed coronary investigation concluded that the heating pipe that runs alongside the open wooden blocks triggered the building. Coroner blames fire on "conditions" and is not legally responsible for it. Many parents condemn the speed of checks and objections to his refusal to hold the school board, the architects, Hirter, or whoever is responsible. J.H. Morgan, Ohio's Chief Inspector of Public Buildings explains this issue in his annual report to the Governor and residents: "The cause of the fire is unspecified Many believe it comes from a heating system or boiler, but evidence has been offered to the opposite." A memorial plaque placed on site by the state of Ohio in 2003 agreed that the fire originated from "unknown origin."
The Collinwood Fire, 1908 , a multi-media website launched in October 2016, explores the tragedy, its historical context, and its aftermath.
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Aftermath
The city of Collinwood pays ninety burials of unidentifiable corpses at the shared graveyard at Lake View Cemetery Cleveland. The crew knocked down the ruins of the school, but disputes over land use quickly emerged. For the sake of efficiency and economy, the school board initially planned to build a new school at the scene of the tragedy. The grieving parents objected and filed lawsuits to prevent it. After more than a year of disputes, the state pays the land on which the Lake View School stands and the city turns it into a memorial park. The new Collinwood Memorial School, built to the highest fire resistance standard at the time, was built on adjacent grounds.
See also
- List of historic fires
References
Further reading
- Bellamy, John Stark II (1997). Maniac in the Bushes: More Stories from Cleveland Woe . Cleveland, OH: Gray & amp; Company, Publisher. ISBN 978-1-886228-19-1
- Everett, Marshall. "The Complete Story of the Collinwood School Disaster and How It Can Be Prevented", Cleveland: N.G. Hamilton Pub. Co., 1908.
- Jablonski, Ray. "New Country Markers Respect Victims of Lakeview Lake." Sun News . May 22, 2003.
- Jablonski, Ray. "Schools can be destroyed for home." Sun News . October 28, 1999.
- Jablonski, Ray. "Reactions to proposals vary." Sun News . October 28, 1999.
- Jablonski, Ray. "Tragic past leads to the lessons that are present." Sun News . October 18, 2001.
External links
- Fire Collinwood, 1908
- The Cleveland Encyclopedia of Envelopes: Collinwood School Fire
- Dead Ohio Collinwood School Fire
- Collinwood Fire Statue, Lakeview Cemetery
- Jablonski, Ray. "The environment never forgets." Sun News . October 8, 1998 - Sun Newspapers > 90th warning coverage
- Disgust, Rachel. "Collinwood school flame: 100 years later, an angel is still kneeling among the children." Cleveland Plain Dealer . 2 March 2008. Updated October 17, 2011. - 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
- New Memorial School is built on the Lakeview/Old Memorial School location.
- Collinwood School Memorial at Discover the Mausoleum
- Ash Wednesday in Making Light
- In Compassionate Remembrance - A 24-page memorial book produced in conjunction with an exhibit at the Cleveland Public Library about disaster.
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