The age-herald., 1902-02-19
FIRE DESTROYS
 B|G SAN|TAR|UM KeIIogg's Institution at Battle Creek, Michy Total Loss. FEW PERSONS ARE INJURED Property Loss Amounts 10 Between $500, 900 and $4oo, ,ooo--Fire Started In Bath Room-sonfe Mar
 row Escapes.

Battle Creek, Mich. February 1S.-The Kellogg, or Seventh Day Adventists' San itarium here, which was located on hill at the highest point in the city, was de- stroyed by fire early today, and the prop erty loss is estimated at from sSO0,00O to $400, 900.
 So far as can be learned there was no loss of life among the 400 people in the sanitarium, although one or two persons are said to be missing, and it is possible that their bodies may be in the ruins. However, those missing may be in one of the houses or hotels which have taken in the homeless patients.
 Mrs. H. c. McDaniels of Eldorado, Ark, is the only person who was seriously in- jured. She jumped or fell from the fire escape at the third story and sustained broken leg.
 Started In Bath Room.
 The fire started in the bathroom of the santarium building, probably about the furnace. A still alarm was turned in, but the first company of firemen could not cope with the flames, which shot up the elevator shaft to the roof like rockets. A general call was sent in but the fire was beyond control The water pressure was low and this added to the handicap of the firemen as the sanitarium stood on hill. In two hours the building was in ruins and the hospital was nearly destroyed,
 It Is almost miraculous that 400 sleep ing inmates escaped with their lives. Watchmen darted through the corridors awakening them when the fire was dis covered. Few of them had time to gather together any clothing and escaped in their night clothes. The corridors soon filled with smoke and about half the pa tients were compelled to make their way down the fire escape. Mrs H. c. McDan- iels, who was injured, was on the fifth floor. She was awakened by the cry of fire and rushed to the fire escape on the fourth floor. She got down safely as far as the third floor when she either jumped or fell, she hardly knows which. She is resting easily and is in no dan ger.
 Woman Describes Escape.
 Mrs. Gillingham, of Atlantic City, N. J., describing her escape said
 T was in my room on the fifth floor when the nurse rushed to the door crying
 
 then, but they soon went out and we were in darkness but for the flames which rushed from the tower above our headg My aged husband was on the floor beneath me and had to go down the fire escape as did I. He was guided by nurse and escaped safely. Scores of peo- pie were on the escape coming from all parts of the building, and 1t is wonder that none of them were killed"
 Fireman Lucas and Arthur Robinson and Assistant c. F Webb were slightly hurt by falling from a ladder
 The management of the Sanitarium Is positive that no lives were lost as each room was visited by a nurse before the building was abondoned The building will be rebuilt immediately.
 Insufficient Water.
 The firemen were handicapped by in sufficient water pressure and in two hours the buildings were In ruins. While fighting the fire from ladders Fireman Henry A. Lucas fell to the ground and received serious injuries. Fireman Ar thur Robinson also fell from ladder and was badly hurt about the body. His lungs were also injured by inhaling fire Assistant Fire Chief Fred H. Webb fell from a ladder. His head was injured and several ribs broken. Fireman Frank c. Hought elin also received injuries.
 Fire Captain Fonda saved eight lives at the risk of his own. Among the pa- tients were Ira D. Sankey, the evangel- ist, and his wife who climbed down a fire escape.
 The cause of the fire is said to be an explosion of chemicals.
 One Person Missing.
 Detroit. Mich, February 1S.-A special to the Free Press from Battle Creek says:
 It is now supposed that one life was lost in the Sanitarium fire here today The missing man is Abner Casey, aged s. of Bath, N. Y. Mrs. Casey who was at the Sanitarium with her husband es- capped. She said she supposed the nurse who was attending her husband, succeed ed in getting him out. His remains have not been recovered. Ira D. Sankey the evangelist was also an inmate of the in- stitution but managed to get out by climb fro