Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-06-12
MEET FIERY DEATH
Eleven Persons Die in Chi
cago Holocaust
Patients Burned While
Strapped TO Beds
Like Horrors in Saratoga
and London

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the roof before those who rushed in to
alarm the patients got beyond the first
! floor 4 cry of fire rang through the
building and before it could be pre-
vented several patients jumped from
/ the windows When the department
; arrived the windows were filled with
people shrieking for help, The fire
men devoted the first efforts to saving
/ lives and allowed the fire to burn. y
/ large number of people were carried
/ down ladders by the firemen. The hre
/ in the meantime had gained such head
way that there was almost no chance
+ OF those on the upper floors to escape,
! but such of them as were not suffocat
cd were killed or badly injured
by leaping from the windows
DR.. Bunker, who recently lost leg
in an accident, was in bed naked at
the time He climbed to window
sill, but seeing the crowd went back
/ into the smoke. He reappeared
wrapped in blanket and was res
cued by a fireman He said later he
would rather be hurt than face the
crowd undresSed. A scene that
wrought the crowd to a pitch
of madness was enacted at
! the fourth story window, Across
the window was a heavy wire
screen and outside were iron bars
Behind the bars were gathered about
thirty men. Escape in other direc-
tions was impossible for the fire filed
all the halls and was steadily eating
its way toward the window. The one
chance for life for the men lay
through the screened and barred win
dOws The men closest to the screen
tore and tuggcd in a vain effort to
tear it from its fastenings and the
men behind fought madly to get close
enough to fasten their fingers in it.
So fiercely did the prisoners pull at
the screen that from the street below
were plainly visible tiny streams of
blood that trickled from the Iacerated
. fingers and hands and flowed over the
window sill A number of men at the
window were in straightjackets and
manaClos. aud those not being able to
help themselves were widest of all in
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Alderman Kent was III room on the
fifth floor with an attendant A. w.
/ WattIes. The alderman, who has
been totally blind for many years
was in a straight jacket, his hands
being manacIed to his belt When the
alarm was sounded WattIes ran to in.
vestigate. He found the elevator
shaft a mass of flames and ran back
to help the alderman, who, blind and
unable to do anything with his hands,
was almost mad with fear and shout
ing like an insane person. He had
CROPPED his way to the door and by
the time the attendant reached him,
he had fallen to the floor overcome
with smoke. Wattles tried to drag
him to a place of safety, but Kent had
/ become so crazed that il was almost
I impossible to do anything Wattes
was finally compelled 10 run for his