The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-08
Twenty-Five More Injured, Some So
Seriously They Are Not Ex-
pected An Recover.
OVER 100 WERE IMPER1LED
But MOST WE'RE CARRIED OUT BY
THE FIRE FIGHTERS.
Hospital Section Of the Rochester Or
phan Asylum i'm Ruins-Other
Fire Fatalities.

ROCHESTER,. N.Y.. Ian. 2.--This morn
ing at o'clock fire broke out in some mys-
terious manner in the hospital section OF
the Rochester orphan Asylum in Hubbell
Park. and at this hour 4:3O A. NJ twenty
seven persons are known to have perished.
Twenty-Five were injured, some doubtless
fatally. 1t was the most serious confiagra-
ton in Rochester since the Lantern Works
fire in 1883, when there were thirty-one VIC
tins.
The flames were discovered by two young
pened to be passing the building on Ex-
change street. Clark ran to the nearest
fire alarm box and sent in an alarm, after
which both turned their attention towards
arousing the nurses, attendants and chill
dren. They proceeded to batter in the door,
when a terrific explosion was heard in the
other end of the building.
In few moments the entire half of the
building in which the hospital was situated
was a mass of flames. The smoke poured
out of every window and screams and
stricken children. Long ladders were strung
up and firemen plunged into the sitting
smoke and bore out scores of inanimate
forms in their arms. All the rescued were
unconscious, many were dead.
In the hospital were only two small chill
dren and two women attendants. All are
believed to have perished. A telephone
message was sent to all the hospitals for
,to,,ro fac CT 4 n
on the scene they were sent back to the
hospitals.
At St Mary's Hospital eight are dead,
the identity of none being known. There
are five dead at the Homeopathic Hospital.
the identity of none being known. Several
died in the houses near the hospital. There
are fifteen children and one woman dead at
the morgue. The total number of fatalities
known is twenty-seven. Lille Stone, aged
eight years, is fearfuly burned about the
legs and body and will die. Miss Brad.
the nurse of the hospital ward of the asy-
lum. will probably die. Kate Cottrell and
Blanche Atheson, the latter colored, are be-
lieved TO be in dying condition. Both
had fearful falls and sustained frightful in
juries.
But one inmate is dying at the hospital.
he DelnS a uitle DOy NHO Ndo III dt TIE
asylum. He is unable to tell his name.
John Carey, eight years old. is at the Hah-
nemann Hospital. His olungs were filled
with smoke and no hope is held out for his
recovery.
About thirty children were carried into
the home of Herman Behn, a shoe mer-
chant across the street on Hubbell Park.
and as fast as the ambulances arrived
the children were removed. Every few
minutes a victim would be reported dead.
Miss Somerieux, one of the attendants.
was rescued from a third-story window by
a fireman. When part way down the lad
der the fireman slipped and fell to the
ground Both were terribly injured, though
they will recover.
There were 100 children in the asylum at
the time. and a corps of about thirty nurses
and attendants. Sixteen of the dead are
at the city morgue. several are at the hos
pitals and some were left at the home of
Mr.. Behn. The injured consist mostly of
children, who were more or less overcome
by smoke 1t is Impossible to get the names
of the injured at this time. The hospital
building was entirely destroyed and the
main building damaged. entailing a loss of
about S30,Oo0 The buildings were heated by
steam and the IRE was caused by an ex-
ploSion of the engine boiler.