The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-01-24
ANOTHER HORROR
Flfo NJ the Eastern Illinois TO-
san9 Asylum at Kankakoe
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rihy Yesterday morning detached
ward u ihe Eastern Illinois Hospital Tor
NE Insane was discovered 70 be on Ore
by The night w1ichman The building
was q tWO.siofy st0ur an1 brick with no
wood about Il ctcepl The floors ani sialt
Ways II wts completed last August,
aud cost g25,00o II was used a. 90 ln
hrmay, with iofty.hyc Insane Inmates,
twcnty.lhree on Tho nfst goof and
twenty two oH the Second Attendants
lrown, Rose and wife were sleeping on
the second floor, Attendants Reid, WI.
Hams aud Freeman slept on the first
floor.
The building was heated by hot.alr
furnaces lt was twelve degrees below
zero when The walcAman discovered
smoke issuing from the llOor Immediately
above the furnace, and awoke the at.
tcndants. The smoke at once passed
through the hotalr nuc aud along the
halls TO oil parts VI the building,
The fire spread rapidly, and all efforts to
save the building were iruitlca.
Attendant W. A. Reid began dragging
and carrying out the patients. Many clad
In night clothing rushed from the bitter
cold air back into the burning building,
Reid, at the risk Of his life, struggled on
til twcnty-onc OF Bis twenty three pa.
ticnts were rescued, when he became ex.
haustcd.
On the second floor, attendant Rose
and wife heard the alarm and escaped
down the stairway Just before 1t fell. Al.
tendant Brown, sleeping on the second
floor, was awakened by the smoke. lie
attempted to save patient In an adjoln.
Ing room, failed, and sliding down Il sheet
from his window jumped TO the ground
Superintendent X. \. Dewey reached
the scene, and with ladders climbed u
the second story windows, smashed the
windows and rescued several patients
Almost all the patients refused 10 CO.
operate In the efforts being made 10 save
them, and were only rescued by being
dragged from the flames aud held from
returning. A marvellous escape was tina,
OF an inmate who fell with the second
floor, struck the burning debris, above
the furnace, aud bounded through q win
dow 10 the ground uninjured.
The remains OF twelve patients have
been taken from the ruins, all burned "
fragments, only idcntlllablc by the loca-
tIon where found. The dead thus fal
Identified with ages and residence ares
II. W. Bclden, aged ffty, OF Gales
burg.
Thomas lIcrclcy, twcnty.scycn, o.
Chicago; brother Oi State Senator Here
ley.
James Colbert, thlrty-two, OF Chicago
NJ. Jordan, thirty, Of Chicago
Thomas Hickey, thlrty'iiye, oi Spring
field.
y. Weymouth, thlrty-two, Of Peru.
Henry Brown, forty, Of Rock Island.
s. W. Galloway, forty-two, OF Say
brook.
George Bennett, twenty.iour, OF Nor
ris.
j. johnson, thlrty.nyc, Of Danyllc.
Matthew llaigh, iorty-Gvc, Of Chlbause
Theodore lIochncr, sixty-thrcc, Of Free
port.
The following are missing, and doubt
less pcrishcd:
Alfred Runyard, aged MY, oil WHINE
bago.
c. NJ. Tyler, forty.1ye, Of Sheldon.
C.. Shotz, slxty.ilye, Of Chicago.
John Nathan, iorty-two, OF Chicago.
Orlando Ellis, forty.two, OF Pontiac.
At the Coroncr's Inquest yesterday ai
tcrnoon, Superintendent Dewey testine,
that he had asked the legislature twl
years for $4,000 10 protect these de
tachcd wards from IRE; that one thou
sand dollars was allowed, all OF whicl
was used IN watcrmalns and hydraDts
aud that the amount was lnsuiliclcnt 4
answer the purpose.
After hearing Superintendent Dewey
testimony, the Coroner's Jury adjourneI
until to-day.
The Gre was caused by defects In IN
steam heating apparatus, and the loss o
life may be accounted for priaclpall,
from the fact Of the imbccility and help
lessncss oi insane persons Ia such emei
gencles.
There are 1900 patients In the othc
wards Of the asylum, Oi which the ,burnc
! structure was the sick hospitals and III
telegraph Office last night was noodc
, from all parts Of the State inqulrinz IL
/ the safety Of the Inmates. The pccunlaf
' loss will probably reach $4,000.