Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-16
WOMEN'S BRAVE WORK
Rescuing Patients From the Burn
ing Hospital at Rochester.
fHE FUNERAL OF Gen. SHERMAN.
A Half Million Dollar Fire at New
Westminster, B. C.
STOCKS DULL AND STAGNANT.
TIE FUNERAL OF GEN. SHERMAN.
STOCKS DULL AND sTAGNANT.
PANIC IN A HOSPITAL,

Scenes Of Terror At Last Nisht's Fire In
Rochester-Rescaing the Patients.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Feb. 16.-st. Mary's Hos
pital was destroyed by fire last night Loss
$4,000. Fireman Frank Jayne was fatally
hurt by falling from q ladder. None Of the
patients were injured. There were in the hos
pitall yesterday 800 patients, 10 sisters and
fully that number Of employees. The inmates
were in all stages of disease and many of them
were unable to get from their beds. Imme-
diately the fire was discovered and the alarm
given scene of the widest confusion onsued.
The corridors were filed with terrified crowds
OF patients, some of them clad only in their
night clothes and all Of them trembling I'm alb
1oct terror: They were all asleep when the
gong. sounded its warning, but it was the work
Of only a moment for them to clothe themselves
in their black robes. Never before have women
worked more nobly than did those gentle sis
tiers.
The police detailed about twenty officers to
assist in rescuing the patients. Passing
through the various private rooms on the first
and second floors and through the large public
wards the patients, many of whom had risen
from their beds and with frightened faces were
walking about the rooms in o dazed condition,
the rescuers strove to calm the fears of the in
mates, assuring them that all would be saved.
was an aged woman. and before the room had
been reached she had climbed through win
dow and ATTEMPTED to escape. Feeble with
sickness and age she lost her grasp upon the
window and fell to the ground. Fortunately
the distance was only few feet and the woman
escaped with only slight cut upon the head.
WORK OF THE REsCUERs.
Such Of the patients as were able walked un-
assisted from the burning building and sought
shelter in the houses and blocks in the vicinity.
But the rescuers had much to do. Fully fifty
nf tha INN otaa -, Ton 1,1a
ton to rise from their Sheds and these
had to be carried out. Wrapped closely
in blankets and quilts, snatchel hur-
riedly from the beds, in shav,J ca whatever
article OF clothing was nearest at tend, the in
mates, most of whom were without other
clothing, were carried out and taken to the
engine house Of the hospital, a little building
located about hundred feet from the main
building, and to rooms in the buildings oppo-
site the hospital.
In the little house the sick people, all women,
and most Of them of advanced age, were hud-
died closely together. In one corner upon
cot lay woman about forty years old. Motion
less, scarcely breathing and with glazed, staring
eyes, she was unconscious Of all going on about
her. Upon a bundle OF bedding on the floor
lay another Of the patients in q similar con-
dition.
Everywhere among the patients could be
seen the white head dresses Of the sisters of the
institute as they moved about from one to an
other of their charges with cheering, reassuring
words Several priests were also quickly on
the scene and they too, united with the sisters
in comforting the sick ones.
JAYSE's SEVERE INJURIES.
Jayne, the fireman who was said to have
been killed, was badly injured. At the city
hospital, upon inquiry, it was found that the
man had been almost completely scalped. The
scalp was cut in half dozen places and loosened
from the entire top Of the skull. In addition
to this gaping wound on the head his right
ankle was broken, the left diylocated and many
cuts and bruises on various parts of the body.
On account Of his powerful build it is now
thought that he has a slight chance for recovery.