The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-10
Hospital Was Five Stories High and
Many of the Patients Were Con-
fined ON Upper Floors.
FRANTIC EFFORTS TO ESCAPE
DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH A
WIRE SCREEN AND IRON BARS.
CooI-Headed Man who Saved Many
Lives-some of the Patients Man
acIed-severaI Arrests.

CHICAGO, June s.-Nine men and one
woman were killed. seven persons are miss
ing. and possibly dead. and about thirty per-
sons were injured in fire which this aft
ernoon destroyed the sanatorium conducted
by the St. Luke's Society. at the corner of
owabash 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.
IT was fve-story structure. BY far the
greater portion OF the patients received in
the institution were those seeking cure from
the drink habit and those who were ad-
dicted to the use of drugs. When the FIRE
broke out there were on the fifth floor a
number OF patients suffering from delirsum
tremens and some who were deranged by
drugs. Several OF these were strapped to
their beds and it was found impossible to
save them. so rapidly did the fire spread
through the building The list as far as
known at present, although it is impossible
that the list of dead will be increased later,
is as follows:
The Dead
S. j. NEWELL.
CARL A CARLSON.
JOSEPH HARRINGTON.
SAMUEL DALZELL.
DIR. j. T. STANTON.
GEORGE A. RIBBECK, HiIlsdale, Mich.
WILLIAM KENT. alderman OF the
Fourth ward, Chicago
JOHN b. KNAPMAN.
MRS NJ BAUMANN.
B. H. BOYD, seventy-eight years of age
and member OF the medical staff OF the in
sttution.
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; probably will
die.
MARY McMANNIS, badly burned about
the body.
MATTE JAMESON, slightly burned and
overcome by smoke.
MINNIE ELLIS. slight burns about the
face.
JOHN DOwNEY. Omaha. Neb.. jumped
from third story to roof OF adjoining build
ing; 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 KAPRA, cut by glass while try
ing 10 Jump from a window on the fourth
floor; carried down by firemen; not seri-
Gus.
DIR. II. L. LUSE. burned about the face
and hands
MRS. b. II. BOWMAN. burned while res
cuing her four-year-old daughter from
third floor; severely burned about body.
MARY BOWMAN, four years old, burned
about body; not serious.
FIREMAN MICHAEL HADLEY. burned
while rescuing Carl Carlson from fourth
floor; burned about face and hands; not
serious.
MRS. LEAH. Omaha. overcome by
smoke; not serious.
J. F. SUIT. jumped from third floor into
net. injured internally; probably will die.
WILLIAM +. DAVIS. Cedar Rapids. Ia
burned about head.
b w MARTIES. suffocated in building;
rescued by police; will recover.
T. T. MEANS. face burned.
l. w. wOODRICH. burned about head
and face.
DIR. CHARLES E. ANDERSON. bruised
and burned.
c. T. WEARS. head burned: may die.
G. c. ANDREWS. burned about face
head and body; serious.
burned.
WILLIAM LANAHAN, engineer. bruised
about neck.
j. p. NAGEL inventor OF gasoline plant
I'm hospital. slightly bruised.
ANNIE MYERS. face and hands burned.
q +. MILLER, president OF the ST. Luke
Society. face and hands burned.
MRS G. E. MILLER. face and neck
burned
GEORGE MOVES. hands burned and
nearly suffocated; carried from the third
story by the police.
CLINTON OSBORNE. New York. face
and hands burned. arm badly cut
ESTHER sTRoMBERG. face and hands
burned.
FREDERICK SWEET. badly burned
about legs.
DIR. JAMES T. SLATER. face and hands
burned.
w. SOUBNER, face and head scorched:
nearly sufocated when found on third floor
BY the police.
UNKNOWN WOMAN. hands and face