Collection	Pulaski - 1910 Fire Exhibit
Creator	Jim McReynolds
Credit line	Created by Jim McReynolds
Date	1910
Abstract	The fire spread rapidly toward Providence Hospital located at the eastern extreme of Wallace at the junction of Wallace, Burke Canyon, and Mullan Canyon. It was determined the hospital should be evacuated. The route west through Wallace was cut off by a derailed rail car and the fire. That left the route east to Missoula, MT. The resident doctor, Dr. F. Leo Quigley rounded up a train from Burke to evacuate 25 patients, 15 Sisters, and 10 nurses and attendants. They were loaded on the train and headed off on a harrowing trip through the fire to Missoula. (For more on the train ride to Missoula, go to the Northern Pacific Railroad Museum.) Sister Joseph Antioch got off the evacuation train and stayed behind to tend to three patients left behind in the basement of the Hospital. Dr. Quigley manned a hose on the roof of the Hospital keeping the flames at bay. Mother Superior Anthony was already in Missoula visiting St. Patricks Hospital. When she heard of the situation at Providence she prayed to God to erect a statue to the Sacred Heart of Jesus if God would spare the hospital and save those left behind. That was at about the time the fire was nearly at the hospital when the winds changed direction and Providence was spared. Sister Anthony was good to her word and erected the statue. After the hospital was sold many years later, the statue was donated to Wallace District Mining Museum. The statue is now missing - do you know where it is? We'd like to know.
Object ID	2010.21.046
Object Name	Slide, PowerPoint
Title	The Providence Hospital Miracle

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