Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-06-10
The Dead.

S. ]. Newell.
Carl A. Carlson.
Michael luby.
Joseph Harrington.
Samuel Dalzell.
DIR. j. T. Stanton
J. B. Bishop, St Louis.
George a. Ribbeck, Hillsdale, Mich,
G. 5. Colt, Layergne, Ills.
William Kent. alderman of the
Fourth ward, Chicago.
John B. Knapman.
Mrs. NJ. Baumann.
B. Fl. Boyd. rs years old, and mem.
Der of the medical staff of the institu.
tien.
The fire originated in the basement
of the building and spread rapidly to
the upper stories through the eleva.
ter shaft.
AS the cry of fire rang through the
building patients sprang from their
beds, and before they could be pre-.
vented several had jumped from the
windows to the pavement The fire
department was on the scene within
q. few minutes, and as the windows
were filled with people shrieking for
help the iremen devoted their first
efforts to save lives and allowed the
fire to burn. While this was the
means of saving large number OF
people, who were carried down the
ladders by the firemen, it gave the
fire such Roadway that there was al.
nh fO,
per 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
Desperate Fighting Against Death.
A scene that wrought to the pitch
OF madness the great crowd that had
gathered around the building was en-.
acted at a fourth-story window, on
the north side. Across this window
was heavy wire screen, and ON the
outside of the screen were iron bars
running parallel to the SILL The
space between these bars was too
small to allow the passage of even
a small hey, and behind them were
gathered a crowd of men whose mum
bers were afterward found to be be.
tween rs and 80. Escape in other di
rections was impossible, for the fire
filed all the halls and was steadily
eating it's way toward the window at
which the men were standing The
men closest to the screen tore and
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frcm its fastenings and the men be
hind them fought madly to get at it
So fiercely did the prisoners pull a,
the screen that from the street below
were plainly visible tiny streams OF
blood that trickled from lacerated
fingers and hands and flowed over the
window stills. A number of. the men
at the window were in straight jack
cts and manacles, and those not be
ing able to help themselves or Others
were the widest of all in their fran
tic efforts to break through the bars
The crowd in the street shouted all
sorts of commands and directions al
the men, and gave orders to the fire
men, who were doing all that men
could to get through the bars from
the outside. AS the flames came
steadily toward the Len the people
in the street jumped up and down
and screamed in helpless rage.
United Efforts Successful.
w. E. Davis, of Cedar Rapids, la.
patient in the institution, induced
the men to unite their efforts. -Four
men at first took hold of the screen
and in almost minute the crowd be
hind them pushed thew away, and
before the men could get to the screen
again they were compelled to fight
with their fists. Davis managed tc
get his men to the window again and
after few desperate pulls they man
aged TO tear down portion of the
screen. Neryed to the work by theil
success, the bodies of the men swayed
back and forth as they put all Of theii
sti ength into one last effort. The
hands of one OF the men were covered
with blood. but he hung on and pulled
as best he could. Finally down II
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