New-York tribune., 1889-12-20

O'Brien. Roland Disch. Jules Winant HAL Crosby.
August Meyers. Charles Flemming and Charles
Winters. Several of them carried stretchers. Inc
patients Fay, MARITIME, McGuire and Hall were
suffering from fractured legs, and were not able
to get out of bed. They were hastily put upon
stretchers, and were carried to the street. The
other patients had got out of bed. but were all
helpless. Some of them fell upon their knees
and prayed and every one begged TO be taken out
first Many of them could have helped them
selves, but they seemed 10 have lost their reason
Those who were too weak to walk were put upon
mattresses and carried into the office in
Seventieth-st. The life-savers worked with great
heroism while the flames spread with great rapidity
in Ward 6, moving eastward. The roar OF the
flames was terrific when they burst through the
roof, and the fire was spreading fast that it
did not seem possible to get all the patients out
safely chiefly because most of them were panic
stricken. The noise made by the hre-
engines as they came dashing up ana
the loud shouts of the fremen added to the terror
of the patients.
HEROIC RESCUERS.
Some of the rescuers who were not used 10
fame smoke and noise became frightened and
ran out of the building when their services were
most needed There were stout hearts among
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thick in Ward No 6 that it was impossible TO see
there were men there who crawled on the f1oor
and brought out patients who had been overcome
by fright and smoke and had tainted. 1t was
fierce contest between the life-savers and the de-
vouring flames, but the life-savers won after a
brave struggle. The battle was the fcrcest in
Wards Nos. ) and 6. When these wards were
nearly emptied the policemen had arrived from
the Sixty-seventh-st. station, and they dashed
into the hospital and went on with
the work of rescuing the patients in the lower
wards The excitement in Wards Nos 3 and
and | and was not so great, but the patients
were all Frustrated by fright, and even the as
surances given by the policemen and fremen
would not quiet them. Policemen King and
Flanders were compmented for their heroic
services.
The patients had only just gotten out of Wards
5 and when the roof and ceiling fell. At this
time Firemen Ryer and Dunbar and Captain
Duane, of Engine No. 49, were fighting the flames
inside the building, and they were caught in
Ward 6. Timbers and plaster fell around them,
and they had to flee for their lives. They would
certainly have been killed only there chanced to
be window opening on balcony
near them. They got out this and
were helped down on ladders to the ground
around the hospital They were badly burned.
PROVIDING FOR THE PATIENTS.
! Captain Gunner called out the policemen on re-
serve at the East fifty-seventh-st station and
East Eighty-eghth-st. station, and when he got
to the fire called out all the ambulances in the
city. They all came at full speed, and were at
once set to work carrying the rescued patients to
the places which had been provided for them
In fact, if there had been 1000 patients there
would have been places for them, for every house
| in the neighborhood was opened to them. list
| of the places to which the patients had been re-
moved was given to Bernard Roth, the night
clerk and he compared it with the books OF
record and found that there was not missing
patient. The women patients under the
charge Of Mrs Rafferty,, Miss Dumley and Mis-:
Gardner, and they were removed to several hos
pitals. The following are the names of the
patients
Private patients-Dr Wilson, Maria Heuser
| William Donely, Fredriqua Jacque.
Ward No MARY Mayer, Lena Kraemer, Julia
! Hamilton, Laura WotZ, Eliza Jungman, Augusta
Thoe Maria Harlan, Kate Kelly, Jessie Adamson
| Mary Bourne, Lizzie Jones, Katie Moore, Anna
| Mazcotta. Caroline Prob, Sarah Schields.
Ward 2-NIagge Cheney Eliza Henhacll, Mary
Callahan, Mary Hoey, Mary Probst,
Ward Soto Weinkauff, Walter Berry, .ame
H. Wooey, Alexander Gordon, Patrick Farrell
| Charles Metz, Melvin Durham, Richard Byrnes
Joseph Flanagan, William Hough. John L. Coffee
Alexander Ross, o. r. Barclay Barnes, Charlie
Blakesly, Louis Bauer, Theodore Harris. -,
Ward No. IN Gussman, EphTaim Mcdowell
Percy ClemOn, d. Holster William Callahan
Charles NIcKimiOn, Alfred Bucklell; John kearns
Alexander Harris. Joseph Botter, Hugh McCann
Ward No. 5.--Robert Naern, Frederick Marchis
David Shields Alexander Day, George Coppinger
John Elias, David McTIone. Alfred Lambert, John
Cleary, Karl Nagel
Ward Six-John Wager Daniel IIeinke. j. X
| Hail. Charles Mcclure, James Mahoney. James
Cullen, Charles Scherer, Tony Martini John Fay
| David Mcconnell ~
Ward Scven-Nlargaret lIeintz. Eliza Stiles
| Susan Kinney, Mary Colman.
| Ward Eight tchdren under six years old
F. Stolper, Elizabeth McBrdge, Louis Bell. Katie
Smith, Frank Mitchell
GENEROUS MOUNT SINAI
| PROVIDING A HOME FOR THE PATIENTS-EX