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Show 1 llHIE ML A Lunatic Asylum Burning and the Inmates Being Boasted! NO HOPE FOB THE P00B BEINGS. A Holocaust at Longue Point, Canada, That is " Sickening Indeed. ; ' ' , Longce Pointe, Quebec, May G. The Insane asylum here is burning. There are between 100 and 150 who cannot be rescued. LATER DETAILS. Montreal. May 6. The insane asylum asy-lum at Longue Pointe, nine miles from here, caught fire at 11:30 this morning. At 3 o'clock it was a mass of flamesjwith no hope of saving tho building from lit ter destruction. As near as can be calculated cal-culated there are from a hundred to 150 insane inmates in the building with no chance of escape. Tho tire apparatus ap-paratus at the asylum is utterly inadequate, inade-quate, several steamers having been forwarded from here on a special train. The sights on tho ground surrounding sur-rounding the institution are horrible hor-rible beyond description. Hundreds Hun-dreds of Junatics, male and female, or grouped together gibbering nud in a frenzied condition. The nuns are making every effort to control them and allay their fears and as rapidly as possible tho poor creatures are being removed to places of shelter In the neighborhood. At a few minutes past S o'clock a detachment of the Montreal lire brigade arrived on tho scene and are now doing good work. |