9-Year-Old Boy Dies, Raises Chicago School Fire Toll to 92 |
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 - (AP) - The fire at Our Lady of the Angels School last week claimed its 92nd victim Monday. |
Kurt Schutt, 9, died in Edgewater Hospital where he had been getting special treatment for burns and other injuries. |
Eighty-seven children and three Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary died in the fire last Monday. Friday night another of the critically injured died in a hospital. |
There still are 57 persons in seven hospitals with burns and injuries as a result of the blaze. Ten of them are on the critical list. |
Coroner Walter E. McCarron went about selecting a blue ribbon coroner's jury. The inquest will open Wednesday. He promised “everything will be brought out.” |
He said he hopes to have available the fire and building inspection records of the school. |