Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
ELEVEN PERSONS
PERISH IN FIRE
Patients in a Chicago sanitar-
ium Burned insight Of
Thousands.
SCENE A SHOCKING ONE
Frantic Effor. Of Patients to Esespe
Awful Fate Witnessed by Largo
Crowd-Llst OF Dead and
Injured.
SCENE A SHOCKING ONE.

| itarium conducted by St. Luke's So
ciety, 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 Lancaster BY far the greater
| portion of the patients received in the
| institute were those seeking cure from
| the drink habit and those who were
\ addicted to the use of drugs. When the
! fire broke out there were on the fifth
| floor q number of patients suffering
| from delrium tremens and some who
We're deranged by drugs. Several of
| these We're strapped to their BEDS and
| 1T was found impossible to save them,
so rapidly did the fire spread through
| the building. The list. as far as known
at present, although 1t Is possible that
the list of dead will be increased later,
| is as follows:
The dead:
j. s. NEWELL.
| CARL "A. CARLSON.
JOSEPH HARRINGTON.
| SAMUEL DALZ1IIL.
DIR. j. Il. STANTON.
]. o. RIBEACIl of Hillsdale, Mich.
WILLIAM KENT, alderman Of tho
| Fourth ward Chicago.
JOHN b. KNAFNlAN.
MRS. NJ. BAUNlANN.
\ b. II. BOYD, 10 years old and a mem-
Der of the medical staff of the insti-
| tuition.
! The injured:
A. W. Wattles, badly burned on the
head and back. and internal injuries;
will die.
Mrs. Amelia Wilson, burned about
| the body and inhaled flame; will prob
ably die.
Mary McMannis, badly burned about
| the body.
/ Matte Jameson, slightly burned and
/ overcome by smoke.
! Minnie Ellis, slightly burned about
the face.
John Downey of Omaha, Neb.,
roof of adjoining building, leg sprained.
| A. c. Davis, business manager of the
| sanitarium, slightly burned about the
| hands and face.
| Henry Norman colored, burned about
| the hands and face; not serious.
| Frank Johnson, burned about the
| hands and face; not serious.
| Fred Kappa, cut by glass while try
| ing to jump from a window on the
| fourth floor; carried down by firemen;
| not serious.
DIR. II. l.. Luse, burned about the
| face and handS.
Mrs. ID. H. Bowman, burned while
rescung her 4-year-old daughter from
4 the third floor; severely burned about
| body
Mary Bowman, years old, burned
| about the body; not seriously.
Fireman Michael Hadley, burned
| while rescuing Carl Carlson from the
4 fourth floor; burned about the face and
| hands; not seriously.
| Mrs. Leah of Omaha, overcome by
| smoke; not serious.
j. f. Suit, jumped from the third
1 floor into net; injured internally; prob
\ ably die.
| Michael Luby.
| ]. b. Bishop, ST. Louis, Mo.
| j. S. Colt of Livergne, Ill.
| William Edwards of Cedar Rapids.
| Ia, burned about The head.
| b. W. Marties, suffocated in building;
| rescued by police; will recover.
1 r. L. Means. face burned.
| II. w. Woodrich burned about head
DIR. Charles e. Anderson, bruised
| and burned.
| c. II. Wears, head burned; may die.
| G. C. Andrews, burned about the face,
head and body; serious.
| Lee Seymour, fireman., face slightly
\ burned.
4 William Lanahan, engineer, bruised
4 about the neck.
j. p. Nagel, inventor of gasoline plant
4 in hospital, slightly bruised.
| Annie Myers. face and hands
4 burned.
| o. e. Miller. face and neck burned.
George Noyes. hands burned and
nearly suffocated; carried from the
| third story by the police.
! Clinton Osborne of New York. face
| and hands burned. arm badly cut.
| Esther Stromberg, face and hands
| burned.
Frederick Sweet, badly burned about
| lexis.
| Dr. Slater face and hands burned.
| w. Soubener face and hand scorched,
| nearly suffocated when found on the
| third floor by the police.
| Unknown woman, hands and face
/ burned; went insane after being taken
| out by the police, and not able to give
| her name.
Edward O'connell, knee injured; not
| serious.
| Grace IT'LL stenograpfer, overcome
| by smoke and revived with great diff
| ficulty.
The fire originated in the basement
! of the building, and spread rapidly to
| the upper stories through the elevator
| shaft. The blaze was discovered by
| James Newell, q grocer, who was drtv-
| ing through the alley in the rear Of
| the building. He noticed smoke COM
| ing from one of the basement windows
| and ran into the engine room to dis
| cover its cause. Behind the boilers in
| the center of the cellar ana within
few feet of the elevator shaft he saw
| small flame. The. next instant the
| flames We're caught by the draught-in
| the elevator shaft and carried up with
| roar. Newell shouted to several men
| in the alley to give the alarm and to
| alarm the inmates of the building.
Several hurried to do this, but by
| the time they reached the first floor Of
| the building the flames had been car
/! ried to the roof, had eaten through it
and were leaping high In the air. AS
| the cry of fire rang through the build
| ing patients sprang from their beds
| and before they could be prevented
several had jumped from the windows
| to the pavement.
The fire department was on the scene
! In few minutes, and as the windows
were filled with people shrieking for
help the firemen devoted their first eff
| forts to save lives and allowed the fire
to burn. While this was the means of
| saving large number of people who
We're carried down the ladders by the
| firemen, 1t gave the fire such q head
way that there was almost no chance
| for those on the upper floors of the
building to make their escape, and such
| of them as were not suffocated were
killed or badly injured by leaping from
| the windows.
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