The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-28
HOSPITAL FIRE,
Many Patients Still to BE
Accounted For:
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
Your Bodies Have Been Taken from the
Ruins of the Hospital ~. vincent ~"
Paul, which Was Completely Con
sumed by Fire--Thsre Are Others MISS
ing-FIrensn and Nurses Injured.

Norfolk, Va, Especial. The ruins OF the
Hospital OF st. Vincent de Paul have yielded
up four bodies TO the flrenen's search.
The dead are: Mrs. Margaret McEwen,
seventy years OF age, lady Of weak MIND,
who was there for saiekeeping. The only
way she could be identified wns by her ear
rings, the body being so badly burned.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, an old lady who
had been at the hospital for u long time as
boarder. She was on the fourth floor. and
the body had fallen through to the third
She was identified 10y the structure OF her
body.
Cherry Boswell, three-year-old child
from Lewiston. n. c., who had clubfoo',
and was there for treatment
Miss PlppeD, of North Carolina. who had
just entered the hospital and was to have
been operated upon. rhe body was found
In the ruins Of the bed In which she slept
Miss Tippen was from Tarboro, \. &.
Fireman Thomas A. Barrett Of the Queen
Street Enginehouse, leg broken, right arm
fractured In three places, and cut on fore
head. He Is still alive, but has not regalheu
consciousness. and but little hope OF his re-
covery Is entertained.
Fireman Robert A. Foster, driver, hurt
about the head, but not seriously.
Barrett, Foster and several other hrcmen
had run line OF hose through tho main en-
trance OF the building aud were driven out
either by the fire and smoke or hy premoni-
tion OF an impending collapse above them.
Had they remained In the porch they would
not have bee Injured ;but, as they went down
Into the yard, mass OF timber, brick wal,
ETC., pitched out aud down from above
them.
Miss Kate Dolap, OF Washington, D. c.,
one OF the nurses OF the institution, jumped
the stairwell from the third story to the
first landing In sitting posture at the feet
OF Sister b ,rDard tho sister superior, who
happened At that point just nt that moment.
She was huIt about the neck, hands and
bnck, and Is considerably injured.
Miss Teresa Glass OF Richmond, Va, also
n nurse, is bndly burned about one hand and
foot, and slightly about the face. She was
carried to residence on Wood street.
The property loss Is very large, and the
insurance is comparatively small. The
former will reach the noighborhood OF $780,
000 and the latter Is only some thirty or
forty thousand dollars. There were very
many narrow escapes from death and many
heroic rescues by the llremen. who, despite
tho fact that they were exhausted by the
large fire just preceding the hospital holo-
cnust, worked to save human life as though
their own was at stake. Besides they were
still further handicapped by tho absence OF
the eighty-foot extension ladder.
The ilremen from Portsmouth and tho
navy yard apparatus, manned by marines,
rendered valuable assistance. They re-
sponded as quickly MS caiied upon by Chief
Ryan, OF Norfolk. The hight against the
devouring element was long one but the
north wing and portion OF the west wing
were snved. The remainer OF the immense
institution OF mercy lies ia ruins. AS soon
ns the ruins had ceased blazing, tho search
for the bodies OF the Victims began. Ambu-
iances had been sent to every house that had
offered asylum to the In mates OF the hospital
for Information, and still the list OF missing
was large. The authorities OF the hospital
declined to make the names public until
they were accounted for In some manner
The fremen discovered Mrs. McEwen's
body at the window Of what had been her
room ON the fourth floor. All the bodies
discovered were on the upper floors, and
the positions In which they were found in
dcated that the victims had made every
effort to escape. They wero all chnrred to
crisps.