The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-19

hospital, or any system of water works
10 protect life and property there, ac-
life. 1"e0 'oss u
ii. W, Belden, aged so, of Galesburg,
one oil the victims, and the only one
whose remains presented even the semi
blance of human body, was q promi.
nent man in his section of the state.
He was on the second floor,
was an invalid, and was unable to help
himself.
Superintendent Dewey, aided by an
attendant, placed ladder to his win
dow. Dewey assembled it, broke the
glass with his hands, but being unable
to break the sash descended
for SOME implement to break it. In the
meantime
BkLDENs SHRIEKs FOR HELP
were loud and agonizing. AS Dewey
re-ascended, his cries died away. The
smoke and flames poured from the win
dow so that no help could ba given him.
DIR. Dewey, hearing calls for heip from
another window, hurried to the reseue.
and though man of light build,
dragged EO.pound patient through the
window and bore him safely to the
ground.
The burned building was used as nm
iniirmary, many of the inmates being
unable from sickness to walk. The
only chance for obtaining water wasfrom
the small washstand faucets, not
even hrebackets or barrels being on
hand.
THE TESTIMONY.
Night-watchman Cobb testified hefore
the coroner's jury that he registered
report of his calls every half hour. The
register showed that he had visited the
furnace room at $40 and found it all
right. At 4a0 he discove ed the fire;
that the floor Immediately over the fur
naces had frequently been noticed by
attendants sleeping there to be uncom-
fortably hot; that the furnacewas rooted
by sheet-iron, then by two layers Of
brick, laid in mertar, with a SPACE of
but six inches between them and the
pine.
Attendant r. G. Williams
testified that two minutes
after the fire was discovered 1t was
blazing through the floor. On being
reused he ran outside, and saw the fire
was only visible about and around the
, furnace.
Attendant j.. G. Mcfarland, outside
night watehman, testified that he heard
tho cry of fire. He aroused the atten-
dants of wards numbers five and six,
and carried two ladders to the burning
building from the carpenter shop, 100
, yards away.
p. skully, foreman for Architect ]. r.
Willot, of Chicago, who has charge of all
, the hospital buildings, testified that he
: inspected the furnaces when they were
, completed. He was satisfied with them
then. He had not inspected them since
J, An air conductor circulated between
/ the furnace roof and the pine timber
! Phe hot air conductors are brick aues--
. no wood about them. The hot air fiues
a had four inch walls, The smoke fues
: eight-inch walls.
= THE ooRoNER's JURY
~ are well-known citizens, who promis,
careful consideration before rendering
verdict. This is the first fire that eve
occurred at the hospital. The alarm wa
sounded in the city but Kankakee ha
no fire department, and the hospital il
hall mile away; so no aid reached
them. The state does not insur
its property, but u comparativelN
slight appropriation, added to tho presen
incomplete facilities. would furnish 70
the hospital adequate defsuse agains
the hames. An appropriation for tha
purpose has already been asked for o
the present Legislature.
Senator Hereby reached Kankake,
on Especial train this evening for tn
remains of his brother.
The building burned was known a
ot tho lnfirmary South. 1t was locate
Va south and alittle west of the ma n builc
ings, within 100 yards OF the southeas
tb corner OF the collection of buidngs,an
vi l5O feet from the nearest detache
~ ward.
~ Trustee McCagg and Hospital Arch
y tect Willott will reach Kankakee in
al special car about midnight, to invest
ta gate the causes leading To the fire.