Show Ten Aged Women Perish as as Blaze Sweeps Hospital Victims Trapped in Beds Fir Firemen men Stand By Helplessly as Flames R Haze ze Building Build ing in Pennsylvania Br By Associated Press BROOKVILLE LLE Pa Feb 20 Trapped 20 Trapped in their beds by a a. raging fire ten aged women were burned to death in the Infirmary Infirmary infirmary in In- In- In of the Penn Pennsylvania Memorial h home me early today One woman received slight t burns and four were rescued unharmed Firemen and attendants stood by helpless in 18 below zero weather as the flames raced through the he room 18 one one- e. e story frame building The victims ranging in age from rom 64 to 94 all widows daughters or cousins of Civil war veterans had no opportunity to flee from their hospital has hos pital beds as the fire swept the building build build- ing lag The bodies some som burned almost beyond beyond be be- yond recognition were found bud bud- died in the ruins Victims Are Listed The corrected casualty list The dC dead d Mrs 1 Lena 75 widow of a veteran Tionesta Pa Mrs Jenny Sowers 94 widow Reynoldsville Pa Miss 1 MIda I Crampton 65 daughter Scranton Pa Miss Martha ha Moore 7 74 daughter Baxter Pa Pat Miss Mary lary Perry 76 70 daughter Grove City Pa Miss Mary Iary Marvin 81 sister Vera Vero na na Pa Miss Elizabeth Loveland 76 widow Moscow Pa Miss Christie Bobs Bobst 64 daughter Read Reading Pa PJ Mrs Florence Roberts 86 cousin cowin Pa Pleasantville i Mrs r Mary Gannon 80 BO widow Scranton Pa Pat Burned but not lot in critical condition condi tion Uon Mr Mrs Lavina McGrady Reynoldsville Reynolds Reynolds- vile ville the head Rescued ed and nd u unharmed harm d Mrs lUrs M l ry y Lititz Pa Mrs Rebecca Gould Cool Springs SprIng Pa Pat Mrs Cora Druce Dubois Pa Fa Mrs McFarland Clarion Pa Pat Nurse Discovers Blaze The blaze was discovered during the chill early morning hours by Mrs Ella Hulings a night nurse AWak Awakened ned by the smell of smoke she rushed into the hallway only to to find her way blocked by smoke and flame She tried to get to a telephone but again her efforts cUorts were balked and she groped her way to a l fire alarm She said the fire seemed to have started started start start- ed in a washroom and firemen ex ex- expressed expressed pressed the belief the blaze was caused by a short circuit The alarm aroused Mrs Mary B B. B Hutchinson superintendent other attendants at tend ants and 20 inmates in the nearby main building a brick structure y yBy By the time fire fighters lighters arrived the flames had bad gained such headway as to make approach to the blazing building impossible impassible Rouses Five Women In the meanwhile Mrs Hulings bad had fought her way through the smoke ke to several l of the rooms aroused three women who were unable to walk out unaided and led two others to safety Firemen then turned their attention to the main building and managed to save ave it il The fire he in iii the lasted scarcely a n half hal hour before the structure ture was in r ruins ins While the bl blaze ze was WM at its height a hot water h heater ater exploded slightly injuring Steven Wensel Weasel a fireman The home founded by the Women's Relief corps has provided shelter lor for hundreds of ot relatives of Civil il war veterans from all sections of Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania |