The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-22

attendant. placed n ladder ~ his win.
dow. Dewey assembled ", broke tile
glass with his hands, but being unable
Ia break the sash descended
Tor some Implement ~ break II. Ia the
niLDrN's sunfrRs ron nEIr
were loud and agnnzlng. IA Dewey
ro-hscOnded, his cries died away. Tho
smoke and flamos poured from the win
dow so that no holp could 10 given him'
DR.. Dewey, hearing calls for help rom
another window, hurried To- the rescue,
and though man of light bnild,
dragged isO.pound patient through the
window and bore Hun safely To the
ground. GSA
The burned building was used as AN
Iniirmary, many OF the Inmates being
unable from sickness TO walk. The
only chance for obtaining water was from
the small washstand faucets, not
even firebuckets or barrels being on
hand.
THE TESTIMONY.
Night-watchman Cobb testified before
the coroner's jury that no registered II
report of his calls every half n0ur. The
register showed that he had visited the
furnace room Mt $40 and found IL all
right At i:l0 he discovered the fire;
that the floor Immediately over the FUR
naces had frequently been noticed by
attendants sleeping there 10 DO uncom-
by sheei-iron, then by two layers OF
brick, laid in mortar, with space of
but six inches between them and the
pine.
Attendant II. c. Williams
testified that two minutes
after the fire was discovered II was
blazing through the floor. On being
"A t..a, go. Ia Ia. Hs.a
was only visible about and around the
furnace.
Attendant j. G. Mcfarland, outside
night watchman, testified that he heard
the cry of fire. He aroused the atton-
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 j. Il.
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.
An air conductor circulated between
the furnace roof and the pine timber.
The hot air conductors are brick hues-
no wood about them. The hot air tlues
lad tour inch walls, The smeke ilues
eight-inch walls.
THE CoRoNER's JURY
are well-known citizens, who promise
careful consideration before rendering
verdict. This is the first fire that ever
occurred at the hospital. The alarm was
sounded in the city, but Kankahee has
no fire department, and the hospital is
halt mile away; so no aid reached
them. The state does not insure
its property, but comparatively
slight appropriation, added to the present
incomplete facilities. would furnish for
the hospital adequate defense against
the flames. An appropriation for that
purpose has already been asked for of
the present legislature.
Senator Hereby reached Kankakee
on special train this evening for the
remains of his brother.
The building burned was known as
the Infirmary South. 1t was located
south and little west of the main build
ings, within 100 yards of the southeast
corner OF the collection of buildings,and
$50 feet from the nearest detached
ward.
Trustee McCagg and Hospital Archi-
tect Willott will reach Kankakee in a
special car about midnight, to investi-
gate the causes leading TO the fire.