The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-28
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.Dsstraction ~ Fire 8 the Natlonal sur-
xicds Instltuts q Indlanspolls-At Lssst
rwsnty Of the HeipIess inmates burned
e Dsath-As Many More Injured.
s 1ND1ANAPOLIs, Ind, Ian. 2S.-ln the
surgical institute which burned Thurs
day night at midnight, q score of help
less. crippled children, inmates Of
the institution, lost their lives, and
ns many more persons were injured,
some of them badly; most of
them slightly. Two hundred and forty
six patients and thirty nurses. sleeping
in the two four-story buildings at the
corner of Illinois and Georgia streets,
in which the institute il located, were
in imminent danger of their lives.
Their rescue, the fight with the
flames and the final discovery of the
charred remains of the poor. dead chill
dren wrapped in each others withered
arms, make story rarely paralleled in
the annals of modern cities. 1t was al
most on the stroke of ~ when Janitor
Gill gave the alarm, instantly followed
by the second and third. The tele-
phone had conveyed to the chief the
news that the building of all others
where fire was dreaded was in flames.
This meant no ordinary danger. It
proved to be a holocaust.
Some were killed by jumping, but
the others were suffocated or burned to
death. The list of identified dead is:
Kate Strong, Salem Ore; Mrs. Lazarus, Of
Chicago, jumped from the second story Of the
rear building; William Ramstack, Milwaukee;
Miss Kate Burns, Newport, Mimi. Frank
Burns, Newport, MINI; Minnie Arnold Ian
caster, Mo-; Irma Payne, Dexter, Mimi;
Stella Specs, Macomb, O.; Minnie Mcdonald.
Negaunee, O.; George Ellis, California KY;
Mrs. Earb and daughter, Shelby, O.; Frank
Breeden Memphis, Tenn; Mortie Deckko, died
at a6 North Mississippi street: Frederick
DOckendorf, Saltwater, Mimi: Hannah Brook,
Taylorsville, ILL.,; c. H. German, Mcdonald,
Mich. Arthur Bayless.
injured: Minnie Lazarus, aged Z. leg broken;
Mrs H. H. Edena and son, both severely in
jured: Mrs. Thomas, 1874 Massachusetts avenue,
burned about the face and body, in terrible ago
ny; Fannie Breeder, Memphis Tenn, burned
IN q dozen places; Mrs. J. r. Guild, Medary.
vile, Ind, internally injured by fall from the
ladder, probably fatal; Mary Stearns, Warren,
Ia, terribly burned about the feet while run
ming into the burning hallway; Clara Morris,
hurt in back; Grant Van Hoesen, Athens, NJ
T., hand and ear burned; Clarence Mead,
Athens, N. Y, leg slightly hurt VIII.
liam H. Albach, Dunkirls, N. v, slightly
burned; Leora Knowles, Independence, Ind,
back hurt by jumping out Of third-story window
NJ W. Wydner, Troy, O., internally injured by
falling out Of 4 window while trying to escape;
William Mansfield, Otsego, N. Y, foot hurt
while jumping; Mrs John S. Stokes, Danville,
ILL.,, sprained ankle: Nellie Mason OF Walworth
county, Wis, jumped0ut OF third-story window
and will die from her injuries Mrs. c. j. Simp-
son and little girl. carried out by FRENCH Sc
riously burned r. Connor, fell from the second
to the first floor, serious if not fatal
internal injuries; W. M. Widener, Miami
county, O., terribly crushed and fatally in
jured; Roy Harris, New Orleans, not seriously
hurt
Five bodies were taken out FRIDAY
morning. Kregelo g. Whitsett took
four of them to their lnorg ne and one
was tnken in charge by Powers e.
Blackwell. They were roasted alive,
the skin having peeled off from the
bodies. In few instances their faces
were burned off,
The fire started just before midnight,
and the first alarm was quickly fol-
lowed Ivy second, third and fourth calls.
From all that can be ascertained it is
probable that the fire originated in the
room where the printing matter, cir
culars. etc, were kept. This is on the
ground floor in the rear of the main
building.
AS soon as the Railways had been
sufficiently cleared of the smoke to per-
NIT an investigation some Of the most
horrible scenes were developed. In one
room on the third floor four VIC
Tins were found dead kneeling in
the attitude of prayer. The windows
in the room were up, but their oc-
cupants had apparently made no
efforts to escape nor appeal for rescue.
The sitting smoke had overtaken
them. and seeing no avenue of escape
had become resigned to their fate, and
as last hope muttered a prayer
to heaven begging the interference of
Providence in their behalf. In room
on the second floor a man was found
in bed dead The smoke had found it's
way into the room slowly and he was
gradually overcome. expiring without
struggle. Further along the hallway
young man was found sitting beside
an open window, his dead body leaning
forward. There seemed to be no good
reason for this loss of life, as all those
who appeared at the windows were
quickly saved. Although the occupants
were nearly all more or less seriously
crippled many of them became so fran
tic that they lost all self-control and
almost invited death by their action.
They would rush to window, cast
leap was almost certain death retreated
at once into the room and faced the re-
suit desperately.
Early Friday morning ghouls be-
gan their work among the ruins and
no small amount of jewelry and val
uables was pilfercd by the thieves.
Detectives arrested a man who gave
his name as Russell They found
him runaging among the debris and
in his pockets were money and Other.
valuables which it was thought he
had stolen from the effects of the pa
TENTS
The citizens are strong in their con
domination of the gross negligence of
the management of the institute in the
matter of exit, the building having
only a narrow hall and staircases and
being death-trap. The owners will
undoubtedly be censured in the in
vestigation.
There was total insurance of $751;
500 on the surgical institute buildings,
furniture and surgical supplies. The
exact loss cannot be estimated but it
will aggregate at least $4,000
AWFUL CRIME OF A MOTHER.
Crazed by Trouble She Kills Her Two
Children aud Heryel:
LONDON, Jan. ga dreadful tragedy
occurred ut Nottingham. Mrs. Margar-
ct Castings, milliner, has been over.
whelmed with domestic troubles and