The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-10
Nine Men and One Woman Perish in the Flaming
 Building
MANY OF INMATES WERE
 HELD BY STRAIGHT JACKETS
With ManacIed Hands Patients Rushed Up and Down the Hallway In Wild Effort to Escape-Many
 of the Injured Will Die.

of the Injured Will Die.
 Chicago, June 9-Nine men and one woman were killed and about thirty per sons injured in a fire which this atter- noon destroyed the sanitarium conducted by the St. Lukes Society at the corner or Wabash avenue and Twenty-hrst street. The society occupied the building which was long known as the Hotel Woodrun and for a brief period as the Hotel Lan- caster By far the greater portion or the patients received in the institution were those seeking cure from the drink habit and those who were addicted to the use of drugs. When the fire broke out there was on the fifth floor number of patients suffering from delirium tre- mems. and some who were derapged bT drugs. Several of these were strapped to their beds, and it was found impo si- ble to save them so rapidly did the hro spread through the building.
 The Dead.
 The list of the dead, as Tar as Knf wn a' present is as follows
 s. J. Newell
 Carl A. Car,sela
 Joseph Harrington.
 Samuel Dalzell.
 pr. J. T. Stanton.
 George A. Ribbeck, Hillsdale, Mich w A. Kent Alderman of the Fourth ward, Chicago.
 John B. Knapman.
 Mrs. M Baumann.
 B. H. Boyd, IS years of age, a member If the medical staff of the institution
 The Injured.
 Michael Luby, will die; J. B. Bishop of St. Louis, will die; G. S. Gott of La vergne, H., will die; A. w. Wattles, will die; Mrs. Amelia Wilson, will probably die; Mary McMannis, badly burned; Mat tie Jamieson, slightly burned and over rome by smoke; Minnie Ellis, slightly burned; John Downey of Omaha jumped from third-story window to roof or ao- Joining building, leg sprained; A. C. Da- wis, business manager of the sanitarlum slightly burned; Henry Norman colored burned, not serious Frank Johnson, burned. not serious; Fred Kappera, cut
  burned; Mrs. B. H. Bowman, severely burned while rescuing her h-yacr~0!d daughter from third f1oori .ESry Bow man. 4 years old, slightly o'uDcd; Fire man Michael Hadley, burned while rts- cuing Carl Carlsen frsin f0ur1i fioof. Mrs Leah of Cr'als, c-'eroono by smoke, not se1i-,.e. J. T. Suit, iU1nped from third fiooc !n'o as.s Wul probably die.
 William P Davis. Giand Rapids burn od about neac. B " Marties sufocated In building, rescued, will recover T. T. Means, face burned; l.. w. Woodrich, burned about head and face; Dr. c. E. Anderson, bruised and burned; C.. T. Wears head burned, may die; c. c. An drews. burned, condition serious: L. R. Seymour, fireman, slightly burned; Will liam Lanahan engineer bruised; J. P. Nagcl. inventor of gasoline plant in hos pItal slightly bruised Annie Myers, face and hands burned; G. F. Miller, president of the St. Luke Society, face and hands burned; Mrs G. F. Miller face and neck burned; George Moves hands burned and nea,ly suffocated: Clinton Osborne, New York face burned E. Stromberk, face burned. F Sweet. badly burned, Dr. J. T. Slater face and hands burned; W. Soubner. face and head burned nearly suffocated; unknown woman. hands and
 
 Grace Hill, overcome by smoke, revived with great difficulty.
 Late tonight the police placed under arrest in addition to the men taken into custody directly after the fire. o. F. Mill Ter, the president of the institution. and William Sterner, the engineer of the building, who went off duty at noon.
 The Missing.
 After midnight the officials Of the ip. .t,tution gave out the following list of nisging. It Is known that they wsSa in inc building when the Ire brok, oer: M. ]. Cahill, an attachee of tce sa:li- tayium but Ill in his rcnm for ehe last three days
 W'iism Eggleston, pAT.sS.
 c. Harrigap. patient
 M B. Louckes, p@tlGat
 C. M. MoGraw, president os (. rcsrsu- rant Tn the hdila.ns
 Malcolm Morris. patie:t.
 Tlicmas Ryan, pEtienn.
 JEs 1re originated n the basement Of the builo.rg ant spread rapidly to the ,,,pe- stories through Inc elevator shaft. rrn. piage was discovered by James Newell a grocer. He shouted % several r,., to give the alarm and to alarm the inn ateE of the building. Severa! hurried to dc ehls. put by the time they reached thc first ficor of the building the flames cnd been carried 10 tue rooI, nau eatsl through 1t and were learlng nigh in the air.
 Sprang From Beds.
 As the cry of fire rang through tho building patients sprang from their beds and before they could be prevented sew rYs, had jumped from tire windows to lne pavement The fire department was On the scene within few minutes, and ns rhe windows were filled with people .hricl;ing Sor help, the nremen devoted their first efforts to save lives and all lowed the fire 10 burn.
 While a largo number or people were being carried down the ladders by the fremer the fire got such a headway that there was almost no chance for these on the upper floors of the building to make Their escape, and these who were not suffocatcd were killed or badly injured by leaping from the windows.
 Aldermen Kent was in room On the firth floor with his attendant, A. W. Wat ties The Alderman, who has been