500 Children Face Questioning In School Fire |
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 - (UPI) - Heavy-hearted city authorities Saturday mapped additional steps in an exhaustive, formal investigation into the Our Lady of the Angels fire. |
Commissioner Quinn said police and fire experts would quiz at least 500 of the 1200 boys and girls who escaped from the inferno that saddened the world. |
Quinn, top assistants and police and building experts revisited the charred, water-soaked ruins of the school late Saturday. |
Quinn said each pupil who was in the upper floor of the old 2-story building when the fire broke out Monday afternoon would be asked. |
What children left the classrooms during the half-hour or so before the fire was noticed. |
What students smoked cigarets. |
What students dumped wastepaper in the basement on the fatal day, and what was the procedure. |
The fire commissioner said investigators were sure of one thing - the blaze started at the bottom of the northeast stairway of the school. |