Boy Becomes 92d Victim of Chicago Fire |
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 - (UPI) - An artificial kidney failed Monday to save the life of the 92d victim of CHicago's Our Lady of the Angels School fire. |
Kurt Shutt, 9, died in Edgewater Hospital just one week after the West Side parochial school turned into an incinerator of death. |
Eighty-seven children and three nuns died within a few minutes last Monday, and the fire claimed another child victim in a hospital Friday night. |
Kurt had been burned over 80 percent of his body. Doctors used Chicago's only artificial kidney to drain off body poisons, but the boy was too horribly burned to survive. His mother, Dorothy, 32, was at the bedside when her son died. |
There were still 57 children in the hospitals, 10 of them in critical condition. |
A blue ribbon coroner's jury was named to investigate the causes of the tragedy. |