The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-19
An AWFUL CALAMITY
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Others we're lett ~ rosf. about the
grounds ~ viii, aud uI.,y ot them have
bren picked az by thu police about the
citv. The huildings at II o'clock To-
night are slill burning and other do
ptTtments are IN great danger.
LATER DETAILS.
I roasting of eighteen raving mani
1cs ~ iIv insane department ~ no aims
house, an he west side at 0 10 SChnN XIII
river, tot ght, needed nothing 10 make
ID the mosI horrible disaster known IN
the history Of the city. The ilre ORR
glnated I'm q wing of au old building IN
the insane department., which
rents towards the Schuylkill river,
aud directly east of tho main building
1T the aims house. In the u"rth build
ing, whore the lire bguh" out, there
W. 70 sixty Sauarh'e cells
lor viOl N pa'ients-tW"niy On
each Moor. In addition Ia This, there
was a large room on each of the three
floors, IA which cots for twelve Wrn
were placed, All at which were occupied
when the lire broke out.
ThE FIRST ALARM
WAS given hN an insane patient ON the
first floor oi the uain building. Vhis
man, Joseph Nadine, occupied It room
adjoining the stairway and tho drying
ruOn, with about twenty other patients.
| about ten minutes To : o'clock he saw
/ smoke issuing from above the door,
which opened into tho wing IN which
the cells we're situated. lie ran Ia the
! big non grated door, fronting on the
main corridor of the building, and
CRIED "TIREW
This fearful SQUAD reached the ears o.
Z Joseph Shredder, an attendant ct the
I ground floor, " iIo was in his room, Ill
rcctly opposite to the one from which
Nadine had gwen the alarm. Attend
ant Shredder said; "AS sOuu
Ms heard Nadine cry, / rushed
10 the stairway, and attor a
short atiemp' To check the Dire, set IL
work Ia get out the patients. first
unlocked the door OI the room i'm which
| Nadine aud his companions were. They
ran out NJ once. BY this time tue ilamv-
were gathering i'm fury, and dense vol
tunes of smoke was ascending into
the upper stairs. succeeded ia
| the cells on the first floor
and, although with difficulty in some
cases, succeeded N getting the inmates
out. | had No time 10 look after them
! further than to run them To he yard, for
| the flames were getting 90 iercr IL was
almost Impossible 70 breathe in The nov
! hercrly burning building. The
smoke in ttho upper stories was
So thick that breathing Vas impoSslb q.
4
! Attendant William SiTaih was doing
I the same Tor those on the second II or.
| | met Hanna, the night Waterman, who
WAS also helping, and we Went up Ia
! the third story, but were
driven back by tho flames.
which had forced their way through the
stair ay and were creeping along TO
! the cells If
THE DOOMED INMATES.
p, In ,,th ai ~
near the new building on the west
and by thaL time some of the fire
men arrived. All the inmates had been
gotten out OF the second story, so there
remained about Is on the third floor, %
in the cells ana in the large com
mon room Mt the west end. The follow
ing are the names OF the occupants oi
nineteen cell in ward an" near where
the fire first started, Ill of whom
are supposed to nave been suti!cated ol
4 burned to death, with the exception 81
three who were r. srued bY the hremen
FRANK ID. DECHACON.
JAMES MCCOY.
JOHN LYDER.
| ISAAC ON ELL.
CHARLES 500 r. (cUlored).
JOHN DWYER. GIN
JAMES BURK. is man killed
three ut the inmates of the institution
during the twenty-five years he was
confined there. For twenty years his
hands were CHAINED to his DOdy.)
THOMAS RUSK
MICHAEL WROTH.
ROBERT GUNNlNGHAM
CHARLES NOLENBERGER.
THOMAS JONES.
JOHN HERRIGES. (Herriges is the
man who was discovered in 1870 in a
shantv at Fourth aud Lombard streets
where he had been confined in chains
bV his parents for twenty years..
JOHN KOCHLER.
THOMAS SMltH
EDWARD MURPHY.
CHARLES O'BRIEN.
PHILLIP NEWBU RGER.
JACOB GLASSMAN.
/ BODIES RECOVERED.
The bodies OF Decheron, WrOth, j ones
Burk, Kochler, iIerriges, Scott, Lyder
Newberger and NoIenberger had been
taken from the ruins and removed tC
the dead house by midnight
There were of the inmates
of the cells in ward M
who were rescued by the police, but one
of them was SO badly burned about me
feet that ne died soon after being
brought OUT. The names of those taken
out Nv the liremen could not be learned
to night, owing to The confusion pre-
Willing,
PulLADELPuIA, Feb. l3.-rhe ii . OF
last night NJ the aims mousse ehJlreIy
DESTROYED that portion OF tho lNSu ulOh
set apart tor the insane. or 6Sl unhlics
confined there many are missing huJ II
/ is thought the most OF them nave
wandered away. At9 o'ci0ck ghls mora
ing Two more cuarred bodies were
found in ward No. 2. They Aavo been
roasted beyond all recognition. SIEVE RAJ
human fur.,S can be seen IL lun DUlN
ing wreck In tho cellar. Ii Is now
thought twuuty-ClghC of The inmates
/ perished. Iu" Violent pau MS were
! locked ~ the cells on the third hJor ana
could nor ue reached Eight OF LhDm
have been taken out dead aHd others
have not been accounted for. Thora
seems 10 be no DOUBT that they are So
aud that their remains are among the
ruins.
DURING THE NIGHT
many insane persons were FOUND wal'
dering in different parts OF the Guy,
some of them nearly naked. The poor
creatures, generally, seemed unable to
understand the situation, and IN SOM
cases begged their captOrs, piJcnuS-
not to throw them into the river
Others seemed tn take it rs
Joke, and laughed gleeiullv when the
| subject of the fire was mentioned.
Another came flying down South street
| early this moruing with mauace at
tached To his wrist and lew links OF
chain dangling from it. lie shritked
and laughed as he struck right and lc'
among the frightened people. Twas
| found necessary to use violence ana
knock him down before he could
be secured. Another man caus-
ed a panic in a street
car by and rushing in half clad and with
his face scorched and blackened. lie
sank, covering i'm a corner. 1t was soou
found that he was more frightened than
those who ra" away. The report thai
the streets were full of