Title: Reinforced Concrete Schools

Author(s): John T. Simpson

Publication: Journal Proceedings

Volume: 7

Issue: 12

Appears on pages(s): 344-356

Keywords: none

DOI: 10.14359/16220

Date: 12/1/1911

Abstract:
On the 4th day of March, 1908, there was flashed over the telegraph wires to every newspaper throughtout the length and breadh of this land, the news of a great disaster. In a schoolhouse at Collingwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, one hundred and sixty-five children lost their lives through the breaking out of a fire during school hours.