Show I I p FIRE IN A HOSPITAL Ill F Ieogh Wright Has a Narrow Escape PATIENTS ARE CARRIED OUT i 3 I 11 1il Nursas Show Presence of Mind i p and Nerva jI r i Loss > Confined to the Old Building I 1 and the Hospital Work Will Go on as Before I I J t Defective electrical wiring is said to l have caused the fire nt tho KeoBh I I I IVrishl private hospital IfiG West Second I Sec-ond North street at noon yesterday C which for a time threatened the lives I l of a number ot patients and great I I i property loss After twenty minutes of I f I labor by the Ilremcn the flames were t 1 extinguished l without nu accident The i loss to the property will approximate I ij 1 1500 I I tJ soars PROMPT WORK C I The fire was discovered by Fireman q t William Cahoon at J2M5 oclock as he I I was passing the Institution on a Cal t Ue at once turned in an alarm which t J was answered by Assistant Chief Wood 1 1 I and the apparatus from station No 1 I I j The lire was first seen eating through i i1 the roof of the building SICK PEOPLE IN DANGER I I There were fifteen patients in the I hospital at the Unit three of whom I t welC typhoid patients and l three in the I surgical ward The typhoid patients I U considered to be In the most serious ll conditions were Miss Nelson Eugene I Hammond and Mrs O H lloggan I I J The most serious ones In the surgical g ward were William Dalton a miner I If r t from Marysvjilc suffering with a broken back James Blacklock of Mer 1 cur and a small boy These were carried 1 car-ried from the building to one adjoining I 1 I adjoin-ing used as quarters for the nurses I l I I I THE NURSES HAD NERVE I I The nurses assisted by the firemen i carried the patients from the burning 111 j building and performed their duties II with heroic precision The other patients II I pa-tients who were convalescent were j able lo leave the building without assistance I 1 as-sistance I t DAMAGE DONE BY WATER fff i f I I On the arrival of the fire department I i two lines of hose were stretched and I i the flames were soon extinguished b fi The lire had penetrated through the ql B I roof i but had scarcely reached any of r < the walls or rooms beneath Considerable I t I f 1 I r Consider-able damage was done to the building l and furniture however by water 1 I I f The firemen declare Hint the lire was t s I raused by l defective electrical wiring I J fl In the building They claim that other i I I h lives of recent occurrence originated IJ I 4 I from the same cause and that similar I Ii rt simi-lar fires are likely The loss according i I J II to Assistant Chief Wood will approximate llr approx-imate 1500 which Is fully covered by i I f Insurance 1 llrI I Dr Wright said that there was ample j I Ii room in the new building to care for III all patients and that the hospital would I Iii I I not be inconvenienced a particle as a I result of the fire The damage is confined j I i I I f con-fined wholly to the old building |