The day after as flames did settle.

Smoke ascended like from a hot kettle.

Cries were heard across our nation.

Reality strikes like a revelation!

Upon the second-floor from what is said.

Calmness became terror, as people fled!

Many escaped, but some went back in.

They gave their life lending a hand!

It all started a happy Children's play.

Oil lamps overhead suddenly gave way!

Cleveland School Fire became a force!

Similar likeness of a "Train" off course!

From a higher level some had to leap!

Stairway collapsed from under their feet!

Billowing smoke against the nighttime air!

Three hundred to flee in desperate fear!

What then happen is hard to describe.

They say eighty citizens shockingly died.

Sad but true, to depart in such haste.

God brought them home to see His face.

The date recorded -- May 17^th, 1923.

What did occur is now true history.

Things we learn, from what we hear,

Memories, sometimes, can bring us a tear!