Bainbridge School Building on Fire
Panic Averted by Coolness of the Teachers and Discipline of Pupils
Norwich Sun, Jan. 13, 1910
Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 13 [1910]: Great excitement was caused Monday afternoon when it was discovered that the High School building was on fire. The fire was caused by the over heating of one of the pipes of the furnace. It was first discovered by the flames rising though the register in the room of the fourth and fifth grades. Soon the partition between that room and the sixth grade was on fire. Although a panic was threatened, owing to the coolness of Superintendent Treible, Mrs. Hancock and Miss Butler, in whose rooms the fire was first seen, and the discipline of the fire drill the 200 pupils marched out in perfect order. Eight minutes after the alarm was given the hose companies were on the scene and the flames were quickly extinguished. The interior of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades were completely demolished. The loss is estimated at about $1,000 which was covered by insurance.
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