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souls if not to their bodies. The Sisters removed here with the afflicted people, until those most seriously injured, and the children had been removed.... Soon the place brightened up, Why? There were immense fires blazing up in all directions and seemed hastening to join their flames over the one spot which appeared safe. This danger was averted.

Those of the Sisters who were badly injured, five in number, were taken, one by one to Camp Hill, or to the Infirmary. Some of the others were taken to Mrs. Hurley's Hospital, and others remaining on the bog till dusk, walked to Mount St. Vincent, trusting to find a shelter for the night.

The destruction of the Convent and School was completely by the fearful blizzard which raged the following day. Ah, what scenes of horror that white mantle of snow hid from the gaze of searching eyes: It was well, for no pen could describe them, and no hear sympathize with the stricken, save those who had been in the midst of the disaster, and near the "valley of the shadow of death."

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"But the twinkle of an eye,
But the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of Life;
To the paleness of death."

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(Written by one of St. Joseph's Sisters.)