St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
AT THE HOSPITAL.
Horrible Work of the Flaming
Oil Revealed.

hOrFADIe w OPk OF tuo FldiuiHs
Oil Revealed.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.-Before the hos
pital door another immense throng was
gathered. anxious to view the unrecOg-
nizable faces that passed through the
entrance way. Inside all was confusion
and hurry. DR.. Haskell, the phySi-
clan in charge, returned with
the train, and hurried to and fro,
gathering about him his staff and urg-
ing his assistants to great speed. Sisters
of charity busted themselves in taking
the suffering to the respective rooms.
In a little while three rooms on the
main floor were filled with the
wounded. The sick that had oc-
cupied them were borne out into
the hall or carried into other
rooms less crowded. The work was low
ingly, anXiously done. Each sigh and
groan of pain found an echoing response
in the hearts of the Self-Sacriticing at
PENDANTS. The scenes in the rooms
where the wounded were removed from
the rough temporary ltters into the
snowy touches were heartrending. The
removal was necessary, however, and,
much as the victims Shri9ked and
groaned, the work went on.
Lying on the coucheS, the dirty, oil
soaked rags were cut away from the
bodies and laid bare the horrible work
of the burning oil. The hands and
faces of all were scOrched, torn and
bleeding. The lips and noses were
swollen and distorted, and the eyes
were either burned out or were
tiame-eaten and encrusted with
blood and dust. The hands of many
were burned to a crisp; fingers were
missing and arms broken. Several of
the victims, when uncovered, were
found to be without cuticle, the flames
having cooked and burned it until it
either clung to the clothing in removal.
or fell away Of its own accord.
When all arrangements had been
made the public were admitted. An
eager throng of mothers, fathers, wives
and daughters hurried along the aisle
and into the chambers of suffering.
Here they viewed each face, but in
many cases without avail, for the forms
and faces were unrecogniZable. BY dint
of questioning many of the sufferers
were induced to reveal their names.
These were preserved to guide the in
quirers. Soon by each bed, with anxious,
| ar-stained faces and disheveled APP
pearance, stood the relatives aud
| friends, Whispering words of comfort
into the dying ears, sobbing words of
| cheer that were haIf-chOked in the ut
terance. Many of the patients recog-
nized the voices of friends and relatives
and moaned appeals for aid, for to be
spoken to. cheered, lifted up and the
| like. In tle main hall stood throng of
anxious parents whose boys had gone
down to the wreck in the early morning
and had not yet returned. They ap-
| pealed to the physicians, the sisters and
the attendants generally for informa-
! ton concerning their missing children.
At $3.50 p. m. a second train arrived
with four more bodies, and the same
scenes were enacted. The injured in
some cases begged that they might be
killed that they might be freed from
their pain. "Oh, am blind" said one.
100, could stand all, everything,
could be burned with satisfaction,
could be crippled or deformed for
ever, but to be without eyes,
to have the light shut out forever, that
is too much. | want to die! l want tc
die" Then a loving mother bowed low
over the moaning form and buried hel
tear-stained face and miSery-convulsed
form in the clothing that shielded hel
son. Several little boys were among
the victims, and their meanings were
the source of much distress to all the
others.