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Show FIFTY WOMEN ARE ROASTED TO DEATH. Nurses Had a terrible Experience In Trying to Save the Panic-Stricken . Lunatics From the Flames. About fifty insane patients, all women, were burned to death by a fire tit the Colney Hatch asylum, says a London special, Tuesday morning. The outbreak occurred in the Jewish wing of the institution. The flames spread with great rapidity, and before they could be gotten under control five wooden buildings were gutted. There were nearly six hundred women in the burned annex at the time the fire was discovered, and most of them were sately transferred to the main building, which was uninjured. un-injured. Some, however, escaped and are still at liberty, rendering it difficult diffi-cult to ascertain the exact number of those burned to death. The nurses had a terrible experience experi-ence in trying to assist the insane people, peo-ple, who were so panic-stricken that they had literally to be driven to a place ofx safety. - The inflammable premises almost immediately became a' furnace. Nothing was left standing. stand-ing. The corrugated iron roofs of the dormitories and the bedsteads of the patients were melted by the intense heat. i Some of the lunatics were burned in their beds, and the charred remains of others were found huddled together, to-gether, in corners, while groups of partially par-tially consumed bodies on the site of the corridors showed that many persons per-sons lost their lives and sacrificed those of others in their frantic efforts to force a passage through the flamea to the main building. j |