The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-10
|INEBRIATES DIE IN FIRE Sss Iitarium for DrunkardS < Burned. CHICAGO ALDERMAN VICTIM Nine Men and One Woman
 in Death List. Others Receive Injuries Which May Prove Fatal-Number of Patients Suffering from Delirium Tremens at the Time.
CHICAGO ALDERMAN VICTIM

| Chicago, June 9-Nine men and one
 woman were killed and about twenty per sons injured in a fire which this after | noon destroyed the sanitarium conducted by the St. Luke's Society at the corner >of Wabash Avenue and Twenty-first Street
 The Society occupied the building which was long known as the Hotel Woodruff, and for brief period as the Hotel Lam caster.
 By far the greater portion of the pa- tients received in the institution were those seeking cure from the drink habit and those who were addicted to tho use of drugs.
 When the fire broke out there were on the fifth floor a number of patients suf- fering from delirium tremens and some
 who were deranged by drugs Several of these were strapped to their beds, and it was found impossible to save them, so rapidly did the fire spread through the building.
 List of the Dead. The list of the dead as far as known is l as follows:
 s. F. Newell, Carl A. Carlson, Joseph Harrington, Samuel Dalzell, Dr. J. T.. | Stanton, St. Louis George A. Ribbeck, Hiilsdays Mich; w. A. Kent. Alderman | of the Fourth Ward Chicago; John B. Knapman, Mrs. M. Baumann, B. H. Boyd, | 7s years old, a member of the medical | stan of the institution.
 List of the Injured.
 Injured-A. W. wattles. will die; Mrs.
 Amelia Wilson. probably die; Mary Me | Mannis. zadly burned; Hattie Jamieson,
 slightly burned and overcome by smoke;
 Minnie Ellis, slightly burned; John Dow | ney, Omaha. Neb jumped from third story window to roof of adjoining build | ing, leg sprained; s. G. Gott. may die; l l. B. Bishop. Michael Luby, , ed l A. C Davis Business Manager of the | Sanitarium. slightly burned; Henry Nor | man, colored, burned not seriously;
 Frank Johnson, burned not serious; Fred. Kapra. cut by glass. not serious; Dr. II.
 l.. Luse, burned; Mrs. B. II. Bowman,
 severely burned while rescuing her l. year-old daughter from third floor; Mary Bowman. years old, slightly burned; Fireman Michael Hadley burned while
 rescuing Carl Carlson from fourth floor;
 Mrs. Leah, Omaha. overcome by smoke;
 not seriously: J. F. Suit, jumped from
 third floor into net. will probably die.
 William E. Davis, Cedar Rapids. Iowa,
 burned about head; B. w Marties, suffo-
 cated in building. rescued. will recover:
 r. T. Means. face burned: l.. w. Wood
 rich, burned about head and face; Dr. C..
 F.. Anderson. bruised and burned: c. T.
 Wears. head burned. may die; c. c. An drews. burned. condition serious; l.. Sey- mour. fireman, slightly burned: Wm.
 Lanahan. engineek bruised: J. P. Nagel, inventor of gasoline plant in hispital. slightly bruised: Annie Myers, face and hands burned; G. E. Miller, president of the St. Luke Society, face and bands burned; Mrs. c. E. Miller. face and neck burned: GeorgR Moves. hands burned and nearly suffocated; Clinton Osborne, New York. face burned; F. Stromberg. face burned; F. Sweet, badly burned; Dr. J. T. Slater. face and hands burner; w Soubner. face and head burned, nearly suffocated; unknown woman. hands and face burned: E. O. Cornell. knee injured; Grace Hill. overcome by smoke, revived with great difficulty.
 After midnight the officials of the ins:i- tuition gave out the following list of missing. It is known that they were in the building when the fire broke out: M. J. Cahill, an attache of the sanita- rum, but ill in his room for the last three days; William Eggleston, patient; G. Harrigan. patient; NJ. B. Loucks. pa uent; c. McGrail, keeper of restaurant Tn the building; Malcolm Morris, patient; Thomas Ryan. patient.
 Originated in Basement.
 The fire originated in the basement of the building and spread rapidly 10 the upper stories through the elevator shaft. The blaze was discovered by James Ne well. grocer. He shouted to several men to give the alarm. and to alarm the inmates of the building. Several hurried to do this. but by the time they reached the trst floor of the building. the flames had been carried to the roof had eaten through it and were :eaping high in the air.
 As the cry of fire rang through the building, patients spranG from their beds and before they could be prevented, sev- eral had jumped from windows to the pavement. The fire department was on the scene in q few minutes and as the windows were filled with people shrieking for help, the fireneH devoted their first efforts to save lives and allowed the fire to burn. While large number of people were being carried down the ladders by the firemen, the fire got such a headway that there was almost no chance for those on the upper floors of the building to make their escape and those who were not suffocated were killed or badly injured by leaping from the windows.
 Alderman in Straight Jacket.
 Alderman Kent was in a room on the fifth floor with his attendant, A. w. Wat ties. The Alderman. who has been to- tally blind for many years, was in q straight jacket and his hands were man- acled to a belt that passed around his waist. When the alarm of fire was sound 1 cd, Wattles Ien to investigate. He found the elevator shaft mass of flames and ran back to help the Alderman. who, l I lind and unable to do anything with his hands. was almost mad with fear and was shouting like an insane person He had groped his way to the door and by the time his attendant had reached him, | had fallen to the floor. overcome with smoke. Wattles seized him and tried to drag him down the hall to place of safety, but it was almost impossible to do anything with him.
 Nattles was finally compelled to run for his life. He ran to a window on the south side of the building, across which 1