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Show TEN PEOPLE ARE KILLED Nine Men and One Woman Perish By Fire. SANITARIUM IS BURNED Institution Conducted by St. Luke's Society in Chicago Is Destroved Besides Those Who Were Killed Thirty Others Were Injured nnd a Number Aro Ileported Missing-Several Missing-Several of the Victims Wore Strap, ped to Their Beds and It Was Impossible Im-possible to Save Them. Chicago June 3 -Nine men and one woman were killed and about thlrtj persoi'K Injured In a fire which thh afternoon deetroi ed , the fnnltiirluiii conducted bv the fat Luke pinlety nt Wabash avenue and Twent -first street The society occupied the build-Ing build-Ing which was long known nt the Hotel Ho-tel Wooodruff and for .1 brief period as the Hotel Uineastcr The grentei portion of tho p-itlei 1.1 received In the Institution were thoso seeking cure from the drink habit, md thoso who were, addicted tn the use of drugs vheii the tire broko out there wero on the fifth floor a numbci of patients pa-tients suffering from delirium tiemens aim Hume who were deriuieed by druss i-ome of theso weie strapped to their beds nnd It was found Impni-slble Impni-slble to save them to inpldly did the tire spieirt through tho building 'the list so far us known it present although al-though It Is possible that the list of dead will be Increated later, follows Vr.AV P J Newell William Kent Alderman of the rourth ward, Chicago. Carl A Carlson Joseph Harrington Samuel Dibell l)r J T. Stanton (Jeorgo A. lUbberhcck, Hillsdale, Sllch ' John H Kmpmnn Mrs 11 M JJaumnnn B II 110)1 78 jccru old, a member of tho modioli staff of the Institution HnillOUM.Y INJUIIKU A W. Wnltels, badly burned on M10 hcid and bick, and Intenal Injuries, will dlo Michael I-ubj, rrrlbusly burned Mis Amelia Wilson burned nhout the bodj and Inhaled tlame, will srobablt die (1. S Oott, seriously birned; may h II, lllshop, seriously bJrned. Mrs MeJHnrls, badl burred about the bodi. Oeorgo Noes, hands burned and licarb suffocated W. faoubner face and heed scorched, and netirli suffocnted Mrs II II Howmin, hi,rnd while lesculng her t-year-old daughter; severely se-verely burned about bodi C. T. Wears, head burned; may die I". J Suit. Jumped from tl Ird flom In'o thn nel, Injured Intern illy: will probably tile. C. C. Andrews, burned ebout face, head nnd bjdy, rerlous, MISSING After midnight the officials of tho Institution rave out the following list of missing It Is not knov n that they ara dead, but neither friends nor police po-lice have been ablo to locato them, and It Is known that they vvcro In 1)10 building when the Are broke out M. J. Cohlll, attache of tho sanitarium, sanitar-ium, HI in his room for the last threo days William Uggleston patient. Morris II Loueks, patient. C orgo Ilarrlgan patient. Charles McG-rall, keeper of restaurant In tho b'llldlnr. Malcolm Morris, patient Thomas Hi an. patient. wiinnn ruin oiuoinathd Tho lire originated In tho basement of the building and spread rapidly to the upper stories through the elevator shaft. IJefoie tho occuiauts of tho building could be warned the Moines had been carried to tho roof, had eaten through It and wero leaping high In tho air. PANIC AMONG I'ATIKNTS. As tho ery of Iho rang tluough tho building, patients sprung from their beds, and before they could be prevented prevent-ed 03V oral had Jumped from tho windows win-dows to the pavement. The lire department depart-ment was on tho seeno within u foiv minutes nnd an the windows wero llllde with people shrieking for help, tho llrcmen devoted their Ilrst efforts to saving tho lives nnd allowed tho tiro to burn 1 urt'int l'f.oons shut orr. While IhH was the means of saving a largo number of peoplo who wero car-rled car-rled down laddcis by the llrcmen, It gave tho lire sueh luadwny that thero was aliiKist nu thulico foi those 011 tno ui per floors of the building to mnko theli escape, and sueh of them an wero not sulfocated weie killed or badly Injured by leJplPB from the windows. CRAZED WITH rAll Alderman Kent vv is In u room on tho fifth flooi with his attendant, A. H. Wattles. Iho Alderman, who has been totalis blind foi many oars, was In a straluht Jacket, and his hands wero mnnicled tn a belt thnt poscd utound his waist. When the alarm of lire was Hounded, Wattles ran to Investigate. Ho found the elevntor haft a muss of tlames, and ran baek to help tho Alderman, Al-derman, who blind and unable to do nny thing with his hands, was almost mad with fear ond was shouting like-on like-on Insano person Ho had groped his way to the dooi, and bj the time hlH at-tendiiut at-tendiiut hnd reaehed him had fnllcn to tho llooi nveicomo with smoke nt-tles nt-tles scl?cd him and tried to ilng him down the hall tn n placo of safetj, but Kent had becomo so ciuzed that It was almost Impossible to do anything with him. han rem iiH i.ipi: Wattles was llnullv eompelled to tun foi his life as thu llainen wcio scorching scorch-ing tils clothing Ho rnn to a window on the south side of tho building ucios which were lion bais Wattles managed man-aged to teal two or tlueo of theso fiom their fastenings nnd with two other men who had followed him. climbed out on the sill They were neen b thu llroinen who called to them to remuln where they vveio and they would save them A ladder was tun up and tho two men who were with Wattles wero taken down li.ai'kd rnoii WINDOW. He became erased with exiltcment, nnd lot waiting for the "turn nt the llrcmen, spinng for 11 nel whleh some men weie holding on the sidewalk bo-neath bo-neath Ho fell partly In It and partly on tho sldwullt, and sustained Injuries which probably will eause bin death. Kr.M" lltlltNHD TO DHATU. Kent was left lvlng on tho floor of Ids loom, and evidently died of suffocation suf-focation Ills bod was badl burned aftci death Tlueo hours after thu outbreak of th (lie (ho bodj was found on Iho floor otMils loom, one leg burned to a erlsp and the head burned off He wiiH Identified by means of his clothing a ni.spi.itATn noiiT roii urn A dispoiate fight foi life occurr-d on the fourth floci where twent-ltvo men fought desperately to ttnr out the bNsovcr a heavy sereen In order that ihcy might esc 11 town a fir , ii, The) fill illy u c le I but not until i several were filrjhtr ll burned sru.nu, AiniKSTH ham: After the fire was over the ivollrc arretted William 1 . nnhan th- enul rcer Lee lesmoir the tit. man of iho hultdlmr. and J 1 Nngel the Inventor of a (,-igollnc plant In use In -he bas.. ment of the.lpptiiut on There arc no direct ehnrg-s agn, ,t (1P m, , ut the police luivo tie tdei that the lire ma) luvo-ortBlnato.1 from mltmanagc-mont mltmanagc-mont of the purlin, plant l.its tonight the police placed un ler arrest, In nddltlon to the nitn taken inl0.M.lo,, '".7 "s "(t"r the the O I'.,- r! m. ,"'il ,0IU of th Institution and William Sterner englnwi nf the building, who wnt off Out) at noon. |
