Collinwood
Collinwood is a neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio annexed by the city in 1910. Originally part of Euclid Township, Collinwood grew around the rail yards of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and was named for Charles Collins, chief engineer of the railroad. Collins committed suicide in the wake of the Ashtabula Rail Disaster of 1876, when an iron bridge over the Ashtabula River failed and a passenger train fell into the gorge.
In 1908, Collinwood was the site of an event known as the Collinwood School Fire, one of the most deadly school fires in American history. 172 children and two young teachers died inside Lake View School after being trapped in stairwell vestibules because doors to the school opened inward. While some of the children died from burns and smoke inhalation, most were either crushed or suffocated in the frantic attempt to escape the building. As a result of the fire, national building standards were changed requiring that doors in public buildings open outward. Those killed in the fire who could not be identified were buried in a mass grave in Cleveland's Lakeview Cemetery.
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