The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-10
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LEAPED TO SIDEWALK.

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they would save them.
LEAPED TO SIDEWALK.
+ a ladder was run up as high az pos
sible and the two men with Wattles were
taken down. He became 5crazed with ex-
citcment, and not waiting for the return
OF the f1remen, slrang for a net which
some men were holding on the sidewalk
beneath. He fell partly in it and partly
on the sidewalk, sustaining injuries which
proba bly,. will cause mis- death in a short
time.
Kent was left lying on the floor of
his room and evidently died Of suffocation.
His body was badly burned after death.
Three hoSrs after: the outbreak of the
fire 1t was found on the floor Of his
room, one leg burned to a crisp, and the
head burned off. He was identified by
means of his clothing.
TRAGIC SCENE.
A scene that wrought to the pitch OF
madness the great crowd that had gath
cred around the building was enacted
at fourth-story window on the north
side. Across this window was a heavy
wire screen, and on the outside or the
screen were iron bars. Behind them
were gathered a crowd Of men, whose
numbers were afterward found to be be-
tween twenty-five and thirty. Escape
In other directions was impossible for the
fire was steadily eating its way toward
the window. The one chance for life
for that crowd of men lay through that
screened and barred window. So fierce
ly did the prisoners pull at the screen
that from the street below were plainly
visible tiny streams of blood that tricNed
from lacerated fingers and hands and
flowed over the window SILL A number
Of the men at the window were In
straight Jackets and nanacfes.
The crowd in the street watching the
desperate situation Of the men behind
the screen was simply an insane mob.
They shouted all sorts of commands and
directions to the men, and gave orders
to the firemen, who were doing all that
men could, to get through the bars from
the outside AS the flames came steadi-
ly toward the men, the people in the
street jumped up and down and screamed
in helpless rage. It seemed as though
nothing could be done, and that all Of
the men would die within six inches of
freedom. That any of the men escaped
at all is owing to the work of w. E..
Davis. Of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, a patient
in the institution. He induced the men
| to cease their disconnected pulling at the
screen and to unite their efforts. Four
| men took hold of the SCREEN and after
| a few desperate pulls, managed to tear
| down a portion of it. Nerved to the
| work by their success the bodies of the
men swayed back and forth as they put
| all of their strength into one last effort.
Finally, down it came, tho men in their
| desperation pulling with it large pieces
| of the mortar in which its sides had been
| incased.
WE'RE TRAMPLEDE ON.
The screen was gone, but the bars re-
| manned. AS many men as could place
| their hands on the lower bar took hold
l = 40 o.
| went to the floor with a crash holding or
| to the iron bar which they had tori
from its fastenings. So quickly did the
men behind them spring to grasp the
second bar that those who had torn down
the first were badly -trampled on before
| they could rise. Another bar was Their
torn away, and the path to safety was
| opened
The first man through was DR.. c.. A
Anderson, OF Chicago. No ladders were in
front of the window, and Anderson's one
1 hope was to reach the platform of a fire
| escape in front of window just west of
| where he was. He hesitated for an in
slant. then sprang for the fire escape
| clutched it, and was saved. The mex
| man through the window was G. S
| Colt, of Lavergne, Ill.
| Anderson was so much exhausted tina
! he was unable to drag Colt after hin
| and Colt was so badly burned that HI
| was not able to make the leap himself
| He crouched on the window sill while
| the men on the inside clamored for hin
| to jump.
HUMAN. LADDER.
| Clinton Osborne, a real estate dealer O
! New York city, was the third man. III
| crawled out beside Colt and told the me,
J inside to grasp his feet. This they did
| and telling Colt to take hold of hi
/ wrists and drop over the window sill
/ Osborne hanging head downward, swung
! Colt to and fro, until he had acquired
| sufficient momentum, and then SWUNG
! him up and on to the landing Of tn
l fire escape. where DE-. Anderson se1zeS
1 and held him.
And he and Colt then formed chain
Colt holding. to the fire escape, and An An,
derson tightly held by Colt with ont
hand reaching out toward the window
so that the men one by one as the!
crawled through. were enabled to tax
on step on ledge and make short leap t
! the platform of the fire escape dow
! which they made their way to the ground
Twenty-Five men made their escape II
this manner: and when the last one passet
under the iron bar the building was {
furnace close behind him. He said tina
4 there were several men lying on the floor
overcome by smoke when left, and the!
& all persisted.
medical staff at the hospital was alb
sent when the fire broke out. When wore
reached him of the disaster he hurried t.
the hospital DR.. silvers said that in thu
institution there We're sixty patients, O.
whom fifteen were women.
4 THRILLING RESCUES.
Thrilling scenes Of rescue were enacted
m Iront Q, tre pui1aliis W svlnasn NJ
1remen ran into the building and dragged
4 out a score OF men and women, who hat
were unable to find the doorways. TIL
s. ma ioritvS of these were able TO wall