Show The Nashville Insane Asylum Fire NASIIVILTE March 14The beautiful Central insane asylum seven miles from this city is almost amass of ruins Beneath it are the charred bodies of half a dozen unfortunate inmates In the outhouses are huddled the poor demented creatures formerly inmates The fire was discovered at 1015 Oclock List night It started from an unknown course in the west main wing When first seen it reached from the ground through the second and third stories and cut off a few rooms behind it In anio meat the alarm was given and the 400 inmates in-mates thrown into wild commotion There were twentyeight men in the wing where the fire caught Twentytwo were quickly removed to the mai < hall the other six being be-ing left to their fate Behind en impassable wall of flames This city was telephoned to for aid but Chief Carroll of the fire department could not be found and his subordinates refused to move without orders Finally after two hours delay the chief was found and he with two engines left for the scene of the disaster In tne meantime the west wing collapsed and the main building was on fire Tne inmates in-mates made frantic efforts in the beginning to break from the guard and scattered like frightened animals over the surrounding country The fire engines arrived at 21U and began to work Previously the inmates in-mates servants and guards had rendered fire service with buckets and succeeded in holding the fire in check to seine extent Those burned to death were J S Johns Burt Dexter Blue Preston John Kelly W H Beastry B F Hollowl At 315 the inmates who had been huddled hud-dled several hours in the yard were returned re-turned to the east wing About twenty five escaped a majority of whom are harmless harm-less At this moment the west wing is entirely demolished and about half of the main building The dangerous lunatics were uept locked in the east wing At 330 the fire vim under control It is impossible im-possible to estimate the loss Fully in anred |