New-York tribune., 1879-12-07
DETAILS OF HE FEE.


Two ALARMS of ire followed by special calls for
engines were sounded shortly after IL o'clock last
night. bringing . large part # the Fire
Department 70 the foot Of East Twenty
sixih-st where il was understood
iTe was raging in Bellevue Hospital. That part
Of the city was thrown INTO a state of wild excite
ment, and crowds of people rushed from their
homes, thronged the wet streets. ami sought view
of the disaster which thought to be
impending. Clouds OF smoke were rising
from a long low pavilion fronting on Twenty-sxth-
St. at the corner of First-ave. 1t was soon seen
that this pavilion the only part of the hospital
on fire. space OF ten feet or more separated
the pavilion from the main building. 4 high
wall shuts off the view of the pavilion from the
street. The fremen cmbored over the wall and
extin gushed the flames in half houT's time.
During this time q score of policemen assisted by
the keepers and at the hospital and many of
the inmates endeayored to save the women
aud ch.ldred who were IN the bu ullIng.
The pavilion was divided into two parts. one
which contained fifteen sick women and the other
eight children, whose ares ranged from twelve
wears TO six weeks. All the women
were rescued from that part of the
pavlion known rs the ThiTty-irst Ward. The
other ward. the ThIiy-second. was cnvelOped in
flames before the alarm was sounded and
there was great difficulty the children
Three infants were burned All the other
children were saved. The following is the
lit Of the burned children: Thomas Sheeuey,
AGED nine years. sick with typhoid fever; Tony
Bently. aged eighteen months; Martina Rechior.
aged six weeks.
Oae oi the children saved. Joseph Wolf. was res
oued on Friday from the fire at No. 2i7 East
Seventh-st., in which his younger sister WAS burned
to DEATH
The child was taken TO Bellevue Ho.pitcl having
been slightly burnt aud nearly suifocated with
smoke He was again saved last n ght from ter
rible death.
.One of the women in the pavilion was jennie
Woods. c twenty-four, Of Reading, Penn. she
was very low with consumption ut tie time, and
the shock produced by iright prOstratcd her, She
died a few minutes after she was taken INTO
the hospital. Otiicer Smith. Of the Eigh-
teenth Precinct, was severely burned while
rescung woman.
Mrs. Tar Soneur the night nurse in charge Of the
pavilion. related to TRIBUNE reporter the manner
in which the fire broke out. She said: Il was stand
ngin the womans ward talking to one of the patients
about her troubles when / saw smoke aud flame
darting out from the partition between the wOmens
and childrens wards. called to one of the portcrs
that the pavilion was fire. and that we must save
the Ch lalt4i he liilits SIlCaQ WIN l44LiAlilg-
like rapidity and the whole interior of the childnns
ward seemed to blaze mp at once. The smoke was
50 sitting that for time | was stunned and over
come With fear but at length we managed G. save
some of the little ones. IL seemed long time be-
fore any help came. but it dld come at length and
every one worked bravely to rescue the sick women
The excitement in that portion of the nam build
ing which faces the pavilion was terrible. Women
who lad been IN their beds for weeks
rushed lrom them frantic with fear, and II required
the utmost oxertons OF the attendants 70 restrain
them from committing acts which would have been
fatal 10 themselves. All the patients in that wing
Of the building were removed after mnch difficulty
II ~ feared that The efec.s Of Tie temporary panic
VIII be serious Ia many Instances.
lie nurses and attendants ac,ed with remarkable