The evening world., 1911-11-06
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N HOSPITAL WHILE
NURSES FIGHT FIRE
High School Girl Amuses Lit
ele Patients to Prevent Panic
"a. in Ward.
HAD GIVEN THE ALARM.
Another Woman Risks Life to
Save Horses From Burn
ing Building.
HAD GIVEN THE ALARM.

Charlotte Lloyd. eighteen-year-oid
AiOa school girl. Is the heroine Of the
Yonksrs CITY Hospital for Contagious
Diseases to-day. Just convaiescing from
. sever attack of scarlet fever. she
left her bed lasr night to warn the SUI
psrintendent. DR.. Elizabeth Holmes, that
. IRE wal raging In the hospital stable.
not twenty-five feet from the hospital
building. and hen gathered twenty-four
children into a room at the other end OF
the building and sang them kindergarten
songs and told them sandman" stories,
while nightgownei nurses fought the
blaxe until the fremen arrived.
The children. who. Ike Miss Lloyd.
had seen the flames through the win
dow. were badly frightened. at first anL
Q about the smoke filled Ward. scream
inG for their nurses. With the aid of
two or three Of the Older children Miss
LLOYD started a game Of tag" which
wound UP In a room farthest away from
the fire. n there she began an enter
tainment which lasted until the ex-
hAusted nurses returned from fighting
the IRE. They found the young heroine
the centre Of a gleeful group. which had
been 30 splendidly entertained that they
we're ready 10 cry when taken back to
bed.
Another heroine OF the Are Is Mrs.
Mary Stanfield. a nurse. who dashed
through flame and smoke to rescue two
horses from the blazing stable. She
wore only a night gown. M sparks
rAinsd all about her as she ran to the
terrified animals after breaking the lock.
The horses lasned about as the sparks
fell on them. kicking and %whinnying
with fright. making 1t dangerous for
any one to approach them. Undaunted
By the peril. Mrs. Stanneld led first one
horse and then the other out Of tie
burning stable.
NURSES ASLEEP WHEN GIRL
GAVE ALARM.
Most OF the nurses were asleep when
Miss Lloyd. whose father is supervisor
Of penmanship In the Yonkers schools,
saw the reflection OF the flames on the
ceiling Of her room. She made her way
a. quickly and quietly as she could to
Dr.. Elizabeth Holmes. the superintend-
ent. and told her Of the danger. DIR.
Holmes marshalled the twelve women
nurses and straightway led q brigade
to the stable.
4 bucket line had been formed and
was actively at work before. In the
excitement. any one remembered that
the nre hose with which the hospital
building proper Is equipped might be
put into use. A line was run out
hastily by the nurses. several Of whom
were only In their nightclothss. and It
WAS handled with as much skill az
though that were part Of the daily
routine.
Miss Lloyd was the Oldest of the
twenty-five patients in the hospital,
Most Of them-snce the institution is
used for contagious diseases alone-were
very small. The smoke that made IT.
way through the halls into tho wards,
the reflection of the flames. n the
uoase that attended all alarmed the chill
dren greatly. Miss Lloyd was asked by
DR.. Holmes to handle the children. and
obeyed the request bravely and wisely.
BY the time the firemen arrived the
stable vas In ruins. Nothing but the
horses had been saved. for the nurses
had devoted their attention to their line
OF hose. They had used II SO effectively
that the hospital building had hardly
been scorched. The firemen had moth.
ing to do but make sure that the embers
NJ thu atablA Were no longer loving