Show FIFE FIRE IN A ONE WOMAN LEAPS TO HER ATH FROM FOURTH FLOOR fire in indianapolis hospital cause causes a panic in which cue cne life la Is lot lost and several are injured while tho the city fire department of indianapolis ind reinforced by cos COM panic from the suburbs was being bared to its utmost fighting the occidental ci hotel are early sunday mom inc ing au alarm aas as sent in from st vincents hospital when the farat are company arrived one life bad had been lost and several people were seriously injured in the panic that followed for a time it seemed that the flames which started in a pile of rags under tho the east stairway would find their way to the upper floor floers result las ing in a frightful holocaust at every window on the third and nd fourth floors were crowded the panic stricken nich men and women screaming for help to those on the street below the panic that raged on the third and fourth floors continued until long after the fire had been extinguished patients who had just undergone surgical operations rushed from their beda beds to the windows and attempted to throw themselves to the ground harriet leahy an old employee of the hapl tal leaped from a window on the fourth floor and when picked up was dead in the rear nn mn and women were making ropes of bed clothing by which they escaped to the ground below kate beach less fortunate than the rest lost her bold hold and fell from the third floor and Is now in a critical condition from internal injuries sustained aa au unusual of surgical operations were performed in the hospital on saturday many any of the patients carried from their beds by the rescuers were in a critical condition and the physicians in charge fear that many fatalities may result the patients were carried to tho male ward vard which Is on the first floor and was not seriously affected by the panic which raged on tho upper floors improvised cota cots and matt roses were brought into use and a general call for medical assistance sent throughout the city within it short time about a hundred physicians arrived and the patients were cared for harry nichols who underwent an operation tor for appendicitis a few hours before the outbreak of the SM ste jumped from frem his bed and ran down tour four flights of stairs into the street his ills condition la to critical james dawson aa n emaciated patient worked heroically among tho the panie anac men and women on an the third floor one ono after another he pulled away from the windows those who were preparing to jump to the street below and piloted them through tho the smoke to places of safety on tho the first floor after baying saving twenty seven nurses and patients from possible 1 in injury aury in this manner dawson lost conscious ness and was carried into the male rard where medical attention waa was given him for a time it was thought that ho he could not undergo the terrible strain to which he had been subjected |