Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

spoud to the alarm. Men rushed from
neighboring factories and business build
ings, and spread improvsed life nets OF
wagon covers and coats and several OF
the girls who leaped from the upper win
dows were saved by these expedients.
Pathetic scenes attended the transporta-
ton OF dying and injured to the hosp-
tails Crowds OF men and women, among
them relatives of workers in the building
followed the hurryng vehicles Wringins
their hands and wailing with anguish.
The tragedy occurred so swiftly mat
every manner Of vehicle was used to
carry the injured to hospitals and to the
homes OF nearby physicians. The four am
balances of the city hospital carried twelve
injured girls on their first trip ana two
of the sufferers died on the way.
Priests Ala I'm the Rescue.
Priests who mingled with the crowds
climbed into the ambulances to offer the
consolation Of their religion to the dying.
Other priests who had hurried to the
scene OF the fire assisted the firemen in
carving the injured in their arms to st.
NIichael's hospitals, several blocks away.
St. Michaels hospital is a private insti-
tuition and has no ambulances. The ten
women carried there were borne in the
arms OF foremen, policemen, priests and
citizens The nuns of st. Michael's ran
| out TO meet them and helped them bear
/ the burdens into the building. Wards and
private rooms were made ready with all
7 possible haste and every available ply
\ stefan in, the neighborhood was summoned
! to the aid Of the hospital staff.
one young woman, who had jumped from
a fourth story Of the factory building
died while being carried into ST. Michaers
I Three others who were terribly injured IN
the some manner We're seen to be past aid
and priests were called to their bedsides.
The arrival OF thirty-one injured womer
at the city hospital in a procession of am
balances and other vehicles and followed
by a crowd OF anguished relatives and
friends. caused the greatest excitement
along Fairmont avenue. There were mo-
nurses and attendants enough in the build
ing to meet the task, and the work Of
preparing cots and wards proceeded slowly
I Notwithstanding that the entire neighbor
hood turned out to help.
Many women hurried from their homes
to offer what aid they could to the over
worked hospital staffs.
Dead and Injured I'm Heaps.
There were literally heaps Of injure
mingled with the dead and dying on tn
pavement and In the alley when the frs
ambulances arrived from the City hos
pital. The fire was still burning fiercel
and the air was filled with a confusio
OF shrieks and cries that rose above IN
clamor OF the fire engines and the shout
Of IN firmn.
Tn young internes on the ambulance
worked swiftly and silently.
on the way to the hospital the sur
geuns and drivers yelled to every pasin
automobile to hurry To the fire and serv
as ambulances. At least a dozen ,tourin
cars responded TO this call and trans
ported injured girls and women, man
OF whom begged to taken home instea
Of to the hospitals
Within half an hour after the injure
and dying began TO arrive at the Cit
hospital, the crowds of grief stricken re
latives blocked the streets. Hundred
OF children ran about shrieking for moth
ers and sisters, poured into the corri
doris Of the hospital ana AIDED to the con
fusion.
The police detailed to handle ct
throngs at the two hospitals were en-
tirely inadequate. Men and childre
fought their way into the hospital ward
in search Of stricken relatives.
At least a dozen women tainted on tn
steps OF the hospital and within the cor