The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-23
A SCORE OF VICTIMS
Twenty Patients Perish in the
Flames.
SOME HEARTRENDING SCENES
Deeds Of Heroism by Firemen-A Mother
Throws Her Babe to the Pavement
and 1t is Saved.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. ga score of help
ess human beings burned to death. That
s the record of Thursday nights fire. AT
II As the night alarm was turned in from
jhe corner of MERIDIAN and Georgia streets.
Being in the heart of the wholesale trading
district people naturally expected great
ire, but when the box at Illinois and
Louisiana streets was pulled and in mo-
nent the second and third alarms were
heard it was plain the confiagaration was
dangerous. Every piece of fire fighting
il the city was quickly on the
run and upon their arrival the firemen
we're Mortified to see
FLAMES LEAPING FROM THE ROOF
and fourth floor windows of the National
Surgical institute, located on the corner of
Illinois and Georgia streets with an extern
sion on the latter street. About two hun
dred and fifty crippled persons were in the
institute at the time. The building was
almost totally enveloped in flames, and the
order was Let the building burn, but
save the people,"
When the fire was discovered, it was
confined to the Georgia street building,
but soon swept across the alley and both
buildings were enveloped in flames. On
the third and fourth floors horrible work
was done. The buildings were network OF
narrow halls, entrances and stalrWays. In
the small rooms throughout the building
were from one to four beds, all occupied by
many perfectly helpless. When
they became a are of their peril they were
frantic in their efforts 10 reach places oil
safety. Every effort was made by the fire
police and ambulance force TO rescue un
fortunates, and many acts of heroIsm and
daring were performed. The surgical in
stitute was
vERITABLE FIRE TRAP.
The stairways were narrow, the halls
dark and the whole strucI ure a labyrinth
The rooms on the third and fourth floors o.
the main building and the nearest alley
were the scenes OF the greatest fatalities
In one room were two women, both o.
whom p shed. In another there was maj
whose lower eXtremitieS were paralyZed
Although unable to walk. he dragged hlmsel
to the window at the rear of tue building
and threw himself out. He dropped abou
eight feet to the roof, then to another ant
self from death.
The entire rear half of the Georgia stree
building fell in. The debris filled com
pletely the first story and when tiremel
began
THE SEARCH FOR THE DEAD
they were obliged to comm nee work on
level with the second floor 1t will b
several days before they Can reach tn
bottom.
The killed are: Lutte L. Strong. Salem
Ore; Mrs. Lazarus, Dallas, Tex; William
Ramstack, Milwaukee; Miss K tie Burns
Newport, Mimi; Frank Burns Newport
Mimi: Mimi Arnold, Lancaster, Mo.
Irma Payne, Dexter, Mimi; Stella Specs
Macomb, Ohio; Minnie Mcdonald, Ne
game, Ohio; George Ellis, California. Ky.
Mrs. Earb and daughter, Shelby, OHIO
Fannie Breedan, Memphis, Tenn. MORT
Lecks, Frederick Dockendorf, Saltwater
Mimi. Hannah Brook, Tayiorvllle, Iii.
G. German Mcdonald, Mich. Arthu
Beeyless.
Tie injured are Fannie Stern, De
Moines, la; Clara Morris, Mrs Thomas
Indianapolis; Mrs. J. r. Gid and son, De
daryville, Ind; Grant Vanhozen, Athens
n. Y: Clarence Mead, Athens, N. Y; W
d. Wagner, Troy. Ohio; William Halbact
Dunklrk, n. Y; Nora Knowles, IuGeper
ence, Ind, viii Mansfield, Otesogo N. Y.
Mrs. John Stokes, Danville. H.; Neli
Mason, Wisconsin,; Mrs. G. j. Simpso
and daughter, r. Conner, Roy Harris, Ne7
| Orleans Minnie Gargarus, Chicago; Mr.!
H. H. Idena and son. Many OF the abov
are fatally injured. In addition 10 thos
mentioned six bodies have been taken OF
OF the ruins and have not yet been ident
fed. 1t is not known how the fire started
- &c n no
com DuStion. Early this morning
GHoULs BEGAN THEIR WORK AMONG TIL
RUINS
and no small amount of jewelry and valu
ables was pilfered by thieves. Detective
! Gage and Kinney arrested man VINO ga,
! tie name of Russell. They found hi
rummaging among the debris and in h
/ pockets were money and other article
! thought to be stolen from the effects
/ patients.
The loss to the building, furniture, etc
aggregates about $4,000.
Thrilling incidents at the fire were
! course innumerable. When the fireme
first arrived woman was seen at viii
dow on the upper floor clutching her bal
in one hand and struggling with the 9th,
10 raise the sash, She finally succeede
and her screams fell upon the ears
thousands OF spectators. No ladders we
at hand and nothing could be done. I'll
flames were closing in about her and 81
looked back into the furnace of death the
down TO the pavement below. Sudden
she
CLAsPED HER BABE TO HER BREAST
then tossed it out of the window and ga
her life to the flames within. AS the chi
left the arms of it's mother PIpem;
O'Brien planted himself firmly beneath L
window and caught tue child, which in
few minutes was smiling and happy, seer
ingly unconscious of it's surroundings.
The heroism of Fireman John Louc
will long be remembered He assembled
extension ladder to the upper hoi
and as he reached the windc
sill was met by Fireman Roberts
; who had pushed his way through the smo
with child in his arms. Loucks grasp
the child and started down, but had {
; scended only few feet when he miss
his feet and fell head foremost. His |
caught in the rounds of the ladder and W
broken, but he held the child and grasp
the ladder with his hand. AS he hu
there the spectators below turned aw
thinking he would soon be obliged to loos
his grasp and fall. In moment, howev,
two other tiremen reached him and CARR
/, the injured man and child
SAFELY TO THE GROUND.
Fireman Connolly went to the second ste
70 IN where he found number of fem
: patients He took one under each arm a
ordering third to cling about his neck
landed them safely on the floor below
Fireman Higgins stood on the sidewi
and seeing woman leap from a wind
determined to save her life.