Summary
At 10 p.m. on that warm summer 75 years ago, the Sisters of the Visitation already had gone to bed in various parts of their convent on Alta Vista Street when a fire broke out on the far end of the complex where they lived and ran Visitation Academy.
The sisters were quickly roused as flames spread from a basement laundry room into the stories above. As the sisters escaped unharmed, firefighters rushed toward the growing inferno. First neighbors, then people from across the city raced to the scene. Many offered to help the frantic sisters save school and chapel furnishings and personal belongings from the advancing flames. A priest entered the congregation's chapel and removed the container holding consecrated hosts in case the altar and sanctuary were engulfed.See the full content of this document
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At its height, "the fire was visible from almost any point in Dubuque," as well as in Illinois and Wisconsin, with flaming crosses reddening...
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