“The Fire

…Clad in ill-fitting garments, their countenances telling the fright and cold and suffering endured during the past twenty-four hours, they presented a woeful spectacle as they followed the sisters to the carriages which conveyed them to Holy Rosary Academy, where they were permitted to continue their course.  The eight graduated of that memorable year of Saint Catharine, were Misses Mary McHugh, Louise Ware, Gertrude Pursell, Mary Curry, Loretta Tighe, Gertrude Stoker, Nellie Barr and Helen Acosta…”

Reference Data:

Pages from a Hundred Years of the Dominican History; The Story of the Congregation of St. Catharine of Siena, by Anna C. Minogue, 1874, page 195