The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-14
CREMATION CALAMITIES.
Further Details of the Philadelphia
Asylum Horror.
RAvINe MANAGES RUN AT WILL,
Creating Coasternation in the Public
ThOrOughfares.
THE sHRlEKs AND AeoNIEs
Or Roasting Humsnity-Twenty- Eight
Victims Reported Thus Far Two
Women Burn to Death at Cal
yert-CsGrtEs Ise Burned.
OTHER FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

ihst HlBnI NJ inc aims mouse entirely
destroyed that portion of the institution
set apart for the insane. OF 6S4 lunatics
confined there many are missing, but it
is thought the most of them have
wandered away. At O'Clock this morn
ing tTo more charred bodies were
found in ward No. 2. They have been
roasted beyond all recognition. Several
human forms can be seen in the burn.
ing wreck in the cellar. Ii is now
thought twenty-eight of the inmates
perished. The violent patients " ere
locked in the cells on the third floor aud
could not be reached. Eight OF them
have been taken out dead and others
have not been accounted for. There
seems to be no doubt that they are lost
aud that their remains are among the
ruins.
DURING THE NIGHT
many insane persons were found wan
dering in different parts OF the city.
some OF them nearly naked. The poor
creatures, generally, seemed unable TO
understand the situation, and in som
cases begged their cnptors, piteous
not 10 throw them into the riye,s
Others seemed TO take II as =.
Joke, and laughed gleefully when the
subject OF tho tire was mentioned.
Another came dying down South street
early this morning with mauacle at
tached TO his wrist and Iew links of
chain dangling from IL. He shrieked
and l4ughod as he struck right and lett
among the frightened people. 1t was
found necessary 10 use violence and
knock him down before he could
be secured. Another man caus-
cd a panic in street
no ftnh ,I,. .l.t
his iace scOrched and blackened. lie
sank, covering in n corner. IL was soon
found that he was more frightened than
those who raC away. The report that
the streets wero full of
ESCAPED NtANIACs
caused alarm in west Philadelphis, and
strangers look upon oach other with
much distrust.
The hremen are s1ll working In tho
ruins They are cary asd half frozen,
each mans helmet aud coat appearing
hard as armor, but the search Tor the
bodies Is continued steadily. There an
pears to have been great deal of uil-
necessary trouble caused by rotten hose
and scarcity IN tho water supply. Tie
latter falling, dozen brawny iiremen
chopped hole in tho lee
on the Shuylkill river,
Ouo of the attendants In the burned
asylum, describing the horrible scene,
says: White the unfortunate occupants
OF the cells were being
SMOTHERED TO DEATH
by the smoke, aud blistered aud burned
by the hames, their cries We're heart
ronding. Some of thom cursed aud
swore, others laughed hideouslv, and
others yelled with pain, with such aw-
lul cries as would haye appalled, the
hardest heart. Fireman McAuliffs and
patient named Rafferty,, crawled
ON their hands and knees to such of the
men as they could reach, aud drar ged
out fourteen. Eight OF them were alive,
four suiiOcated TO death, and two 80 hor.
fibly burned that they died before they
could get them out of the building.
Fireman Me Auliffe says: We could
not see any of the men in the
cells, of course, but could hear their
horrinle cries above the roaring Of
the names, as they came to real
izs the horrible late that WAS
In store for them. When the firemen
arrived the fire was enveloping about
one-third of tho main building and
burning liercely. Ladders were quickly
run up To tho third floor TO tho windows
OF tho cells In which the maniacs were
fastened. With axes the firemen az
tackled the pratings of the coils and sue
ceeded m taking out seven men, four OF
them suilocated To death, and three still
allve' The last man thus rescued was
THE NOTORIOUS jim BURKE,
who has been in the institution over
thirty years. lie was brought from
Easton penitontiary, where he was un.
dergoing n life sentence for murder. lie
has killed, since he has been in the in
sane asylum, cook and two attend
ants. Toe fireman who rescued him
says he died while being taken to the
ground. All OF the inmates were in
sane.