Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Alton Evening Telegraph Monday, January 7, 1884 AN ALTON GIRL BURNED AT BELLEVILLE MINNIE FITZGERALD, one of the girls burned Saturday night at Belleville, when the Convent was destroyed by fire, was but lately a resi- dent of this city. She was about 7 years old; her father, WM. FITZGERALD was killed by a railway accident a few years ago. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. TEMPLE then took the little girl and cared for her until last summer when her mother having remarried, sent the child to the ill-fated institution. ==========================================================================