Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-06-10

who were addicted to tn euse OF drugs.
When the kre broke out there were on the
fifth floor a number of patients suffering
from delirium tremens and some who were
deranged by drugs Several of these were
strapped to their beds and It was found inn
possible to save them, so rapidly did the
fire spread through the building. The list
as far as known at present, although II is
! possible that the list of dead will be in
cdeased later, is as follows;
Dead.
WILLIAM KENT, alderman Of the Fourth
| ward, Chicago.
CARL A. CARLSON.
| JOSEPH HARRINGTON.
SAMUEL DALzELL.
DR.. J. T. STANTON.
GEORGE A. RIBBEcK, Hillsdale, Mich.
JOHN B. KNAPMAN.
MRS. NJ. BAUMANN.
B. H. BOYD, rs years old and member
| of the medical stan of the institution,
Injured.
william F. Davis. Cedar Rapids, Ia.
| burned about the head.
B. w. Marties, suffocated in building,
rescued by police; will recover.
T. T. Means, face burned.
L. w. Wodrich. burned about head and
| face
DR.. Charles e. Anderson. bruised and
burned.
c. T. Wears, head bruised; may die.
| c. c. Andrews, burned about face, head
| and body; serious.
Lee Seymour. fireman, face slightly
| burned.
Willie Lanahan, engineer. bruised about
neck.
]. P. Nagle. inventor of gasoline plant
in hospital, slightly bruised
| G. s. Gott, Lavergne, Ill.
| Michael Luby.
]. B. bishop, st. Louis.
A. w. Wattles. badly burned on the head
and back; will die.
| Mrs Amelia Wilson, burned about the
body and inhaled flame; will probably 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, jumped from third
story to 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
head and face; not serious.
Frank Johnson, burned about the. hands
and face; not serious. -
Fred Kapra, cut by glass while trying to
jump from a window on the fourth floor.
carried down by iremen; not serious.
DR.. H. L. Luse, burned about face and
hands.
Mrs. B. H. Bowman. burned while rescu-
ing her 4-year-old daughter from third
floor, severely burned about body.
Mary Bowman. years old, burned about
body; not serious.
Fireman Michael Hadley, burned while
rescuing Carl Carlsen from fourth floor,
burned about the face and hands; not seri-
Gus.
Mrs. Leah. Omaha, overcome by smoke;
not serious.
J. F. Suit, jumped from third floor into
net, injured internally; will probably die.
The fire originated in the basement of
the building and spread rapidly to the up
per stories through the elevator shaft. The
blaze was discovered by James Newell a
grocer, who was driving through the alley
in the rear Of the building. He noticed
smoke coming from one OF the basement
windows and ran into the engine room to
discover its cause. Behind the boilers, in
the center Of the cellar and within a few
feet OF the elevator shaft, he saw small
flame. The next instant the flames were
caught by the draught in the elevator shaft
and carried up with a roar.
| Newell shouted to several men In the alley
to give the alarm and TO inform the in
mates of the building. Several hurried to
do this, but by the time they reached the
first floor OF the building the flames had
been carried to the roof, had eaten through
1t and were leaping high in the air.
AS the cry Of fire rang through the build
ing patients sprang from their beds and be-
fore they could be prevented several had
jumped from the windows to the pave
ment.
Department IL Prompt.
The are department was on the scene
within few minutes and as the windows
were filled with people shrieking for help
the fTemen devoted their first efforts to
saving the lives and allowed the hre to
burn. While this was the means OF saving
large number OF people. who were carried
down ladders by the hremen. 1t gave the
fire such headway 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 sufoeated were killed
or badly injured by leaping from the win
dows.
Al d. Kent was in a room on the fifth
floor with his attendant, A, w. Wataes.
The alderman, who has been totally blind
for many years, was in a straight Jacket
and his hands were manacled 20 a belt
that passed around his waist. When the
alarm OF fire was sounded Wattles ran to
investigate. He found the elevator shaft
a mass OF flames and ran back TO help the
alderman who blind and unable 10 do any.