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Show EIGHT LIVES . ARE LOST III ASM FIRE Hamilton, Canada, Firemen ; Fiht Both Maniacs v and Flames. 3LAZING BUILDING BECOMES A BEACON Institution Perched Eigh on Mountain Side Held 800 Inmates. - ; HAMI1TON; OnU. Aug.. l-lglrt , Urea war lost aad many vara Injured la Or wkiek partly neotjorwe am of th aula bnildlBgi of tb Inaaao aayluia oa th aid of th moorrUla oattrwast of th city early today. Ther war BOO patients la th bniUUng whaa th ftr was discovered and ft was a wall trained ar Agfa ting eorpa and splendid, coolness and bravery among th anraaa sod attendant under Dr. Xngllsh that averted t mora frlgHtfol ka of Ufa. Thar are four buildings' within tie asylam grounds. The aula building, where the ire occurred, was a four-story brick structure with basement, MO foot ia leagth and about eeventy-nve feet wide, with wings at either end. Th (SO womea patients occupied quarters ia th west wing. The remaiader of th building wai takes up with mea 'a wards and eon taisod some of the most das-psrat das-psrat eases ia. the. asylum. , Maniac Fengnt encnera. , -Th womea were moved withont scions sci-ons difficulty to houses in the adjoining buildings. The situation among the tea was more eerioua. Tha are broke out oa the fourth floor ia . what as ' known as eeetioa D, where th violent . inaaao are kept. The moat of the men, guarded by attendants, moved down tana flight of stairs out of the fire so, ia orderly procession, hot about a aeora, driven into a freaiy br the etifliag smoke and the excitement of a midnight fire, fought off their rescuers with desperate des-perate fury. Three of them, after being carried down to the aecond floor, broke away and fled back to the blazing corridors. cor-ridors. The flsnrss. la..tn nTniimr.Bad spread down the hallway and wsre eating eat-ing their way through the floor to the third story. Th asylum brigade, al- though lighting bravely, were handicapped handi-capped by the maniac and were losing -eon trab . - , The city brigade', which had been summoned, was then toilin- up the al-- moat precipitous roadway to the aaylum grounds.. Jt was nearly t e 'clock before the first of their apparatus was brought Into play. The firemen ran scalineT ld-dsrs ld-dsrs to the' third and fourth floor windows, win-dows, where it was believed aom of the I unfortunates had flsd. Tksy found it difficult work to break down the iroa tfnM k. wi.nw anil h. Art in the meantime waa growing fiercer. Crawling into th stifling amok, the firemen groped their way about until they found a maniac. He waa still able I to offer resistance and it waa necessary to knock him senseless. He was the dropped Into a life act. - . At dawa a ayatemati checking ap of th inmates waa begun. The complete official list of th dead ffivea out la a follows: . , Th Dad. Charles Billyard, Doaville. Alfred Nay, 8t. Catherinee. John Hefferman. Arthur, Oat. . . , Thomas Evans. Klora. Edward Sodke, Walland. ' John T. Holdaway, Lindenwood. ' George W. Storey, Hoekely. Albert Bowler, Dundalk.' . The biasing roof, of 'the ssylum, perched on the mountain side, attracted the attention of tha entire eity. .The cry, "The asylum is ,r," rear through the streets and hundreds flocked np the bill. It waa a weird scene. The screams of the 800 inmates of the four haildinga drowned every other sound. The Bremen, ngbting both name aad maaiaca, were ia eanatant peril aad frequently fre-quently were seen perched ca wiadow sills through which the smoke was pouring, pour-ing, trying to drag forth struggling ' man. Tom FiUgerald. of th electric track, is givea credit for the rescue ef Ave. men. His sixth broke from his grasp, st a window and fled back into the flames, where he perished. Provincial Detective Rogers aad staff, who arrived from Toronto thia morning, have been detailed by tbe provincial secretary's department to make a searching iavestigation. The Are is believed be-lieved to have been cauaed by a abort circuit of aa electric wire ia th storeroom store-room on the top floor. |