Show SEVENTEEN mm DI DIE UIE IN CHICAGO FIRE INSANE ASYLUM IS SCENE OF DISASTER HUNDREDS OF IN MATES ARE RESCUED Later ater 8 Search roh Reveals Bones Bon of Unfortunates Un fort fortunate natel Acts Acta of Heroism Shown In Rescue Work Chicago Seventeen persons are known mown to have perished in a fire which destroyed a part of one see sec tion of ot one of the frame structures of the tha Chicago State Hospital for the insane at Dunning on oa the northwest edge ot of Chicago ago Wednesday night Six SIz hundred men patients patient who were Inmates ot of the partly destroyed structure were wr rushed out Into a drizzling rain by bl guards guard as a. the fire spread About tny of them con fused by bl the darkness and rain es Gaped or wandered away from the hospital grounds Some of ot them were rounded up later by police and motor let One Ons of the victims of ot the fire was the wife wit of an attendant who had rus rushed into the building to rescue some of the patients The patients were seated at supper in the large larKe dormitory comprising one section of the story and a half halt structure structure structure ture when the tb fire gong sounded tb the alarm being transmitted to about a dozen and brick buildings com corn posing the institution I Attendants nurses and doctors hur rued rId to the burning building to assist the attendants attendant in charge of ot the tho pa Jents all aU of whom were victims of ot only mild forms forme of ot insanity insanity and and nd many ot of whom were soon loon to be discharged The patients were hurried from the turning burning building and aDd at first It was thought that all had been rescued from the structure known among the patients aa as the death house be cause some ome sections of ot it had been utilized to house incurables Later as u the ruins could be penetrated gene pene bodies were found burned be recognition Hospital author hies said It would be impossible to Identify identity definitely many of the bod hod ies les Heroic acts by bl both attendants and patients were responsible for the fact that there was wu not a larger loss of ot life Ute Many ManT patients assisted their more unfortunate companions comp who became confused contused Some of the pa are believed to have perished when they tried to save SaTe Christmas trinkets Several patients who were bed bed rid den were carried out bY br attendants and three policemen rescued three inmates who had bad become confused and taken refuge In ina a a lavatory lock lag Ing the door Chicago fire apparatus and details of ot policemen responded to the call for help and assisted In getting the fire tire under control the policemen forming a cordon about the building to try to keep the patients from wan Bering away I Excitement in some ome of the build bund ings Inge near the fire was qui quieted ted quick ly Iy by hy attendants there being about attendants attendant for the SWO patients patients' at the institution The origin of ot the fire Is I. unknown Some of ot the hospital attendants said they believed It had started from an overheated boiler Other theories were that it had I been started by a patient who ho laid aside a lighted Christmas cigar char In his hi ward as he lIe started for the dining room or that defective wiring was responsible Firemen estimated the loss lollS at |