The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-29

hustled out. Perhaps credit should be given to Frederick Benton, whose home is on Sherman avenue for being the first person other than the nurses and others in the hospital to get to the scene and start the work of removal He saw the flames from his home and hurried out and jumped the fence and ran across the lawns to the scene He met Miss NJ. Hiatt and Dr. James H. Flynn rushing up to the hospital wards. A gang oe men from the tele- phone company who work on the un- derground conduits. came next. There were five of them and they should get all possible credit for what they did, for they were in the midst of the work i from first to last. their telephone bell badres pinned on thesr coats and do- ing duty as fire badges Tho motor men and conductors from passing trol- leys ran in too
 Nurses on Duty Come.
 The nurses who were off duty at the nurses home across the street came to aid at the same time. Inside the hos- pital everywhere were hurrying people. Outside the fire apparatus was begin ming to arrive with clamor of gong and shouts of the drivers. enough to give a serious nervous shock to the patients many of whom were in a serious condi- ton. The exceedingly lucky part of the whole fire was the fact that it did not break out iil the night time. Had i it done so, tho results would have been surely fatal for many.
 All Out in short Time.
 The fire broke out on the top floor, where was the quarters for the male attendants. On the floor beneath was the maternity ward, where there were number of children, the operating room and some private wards On the ! floor below that. the second, came the general wards for different ailments ! Simultaneously on every floor the work of removal started The patients were removed either to the front building, which is the original wooden oIe or down the stairs in the brick addition ! in the rear and small side door and thence to the barn which is in the rear l of the property In all over eighty patients had to be taken care of in a very few minutes.
 The crush to get out with the stretch CTS and the mattresses With the patti ents on them became very great at the narrow doorway mentioned where fall ing sparks which threatened to set the bedding on fire or burn the helpless were falling all about
 Some thirty-two were taken to the barn, where soon was the strangesf and, at the same time, most pitiablt sights imaginable Some lay on tn, floor with nothing beneath them but 2 mattress As fast as bcdstesds could be removed from the burning building they were put into use. The police had begun to arrive by the wagon loat from every quarter of the city. No de termined effort was made by them t be over strict in their censor ship o who should get through the lines ant who should be kept out. This was be cause every possible helper that coult be obtained was needed.
 Some of the Helpers.
 The college element came in drove
 and set to with will at whatever Of
 fered itself to he done One diminutiv freshman still in his teens and havin
 very youthful face, rushed up to tn Journal Courier man and fairly shout ed: "ls there any work about ilere 10 an able bodied man. It was the spir
 IL Of willingness everywhere.
 The telephone delegation was 500 swelled greatly by the arrival of nor |. cmployes from the telephone compan, When the fire bell first rang tn hos
 pital was called up on the phone [
 be asked if the fire was really the-' This is the usual custom of the com l, pany. Ii Is so that the informatio desk. known as number 25, may h
 informed rightly. The hospital respond ed that the fire was there and ths
 every aid that could bc given shoui
 be sent. Immediately Chief Clerk E 2 jan E. Lewis dispatched a crowd of th