Training School Building at Women's College, Greensboro, Destroyed by Fire, March 11, 1926

College Building Is Burned Down. . . Training School at N.C.C.W. Totally Destroyed Yesterday

Greensboro, March 10—Fire starting at 4 o’clock this afternoon destroyed the training school building on the North Carolina College for Women campus here, with loss of valuable records of the dean of education and director of the summer school of the college, in addition to the $100,000 building going up in smoke.

In the building when the fire was discovered were about 50 persons, including 45 pupils, children who attend the school. Their teachers calmly marched them out of the building, in actual fire drill, the children moving out without a semblance of panic.

The blaze was found at 4 o’clock. At 5:15 two of the walls had fallen in and the structure was a roaring furnace. All the fire-fighting equipment of the city was called to the blaze, but it had gained such headway that it could not be checked.

Standing almost in the center of the campus, the building was a menace as it burned, to others, but fortunately the fierce winds of March had abated somewhat this afternoon, and the firemen protected other buildings, none of which caught.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, March 11, 1926

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