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Show llllllfl I L.U I LlllUli I Bl IN ASYLUM HOE NINETEEN BODIES OF FIRE VIC ARM r TIM8 ON ISLAND HAVE W BEEN RECOVERED '' Violently Insane Patients Refrajn Cold From Attack as Attendants P Rescue Them; Some Beloved Be-loved Cremated Now York. Stirring tales of ho- Oh rolsm in tlio fnco of death by flro, and with tho roar of flames and tlio pack shrieks of maniacs mingling In a tlve wild requiem, wore told Monday as pack Flro Commissioner Dronnan started troyc his investigation of tho holocaust on 18 ai Ward's island, la which twcnty-llvo planl men woro killed. tlmal Twenty inmates of tho Mnnhat- tag 1 tan stata hospital for tho insane on out Ward's island, In tho Bast river, Th woro burnod to death Sunday morn, comi lag in a fire which swept tho west Comi wins ot tho building, as woro thrco on tl attendants who calmly dlod that day seventy others might bo saved. effor Tho immedlnto cnuso ot tho flro tag i fei thought to Iiavo been a blast act rofln by drodgors in noli Oato Saturduy O. Bight, it rocked tho building terrify- P'ml lag the inmates, who woro calm oil In th down by attendants. Hospital author, a do I itlea aad city modlcnl oxumlnor Nor- nesdi 'rls, who rtishod to tho building after rocl the flro was dlsc6vorod, advanced tho t theory that tho explosion had caused ncctl a break in tlio insulation of electric treat! wires, which stnrted tho blazo. furth Tho fire was discovered by Mich. tho ae4 Carapboll, an attendant in ward lQg t 43 is whfch nil tho fatalities occur. Btock ed. Ills work and that of James Hill over attendant in chorgo and Patrick JUil. f,ed tlgan of Hartford, Conn., nnd Ooorgo Decmo and Ooorgo F. Roiss, tho I three attendants who woro burnod to D: death, prevented a far greater holo- Prose causL cards Carapboll manned n hoso Una nnd tholr fought back tlio flames while the tloa others directed by iilm, ran up nnd ty P down the -00-foot top floor corridor Plr rouBlng tlio patients with the cool Hm order: "All up for breakfast." Dail Tho unnamed maniac, whose one ornm passion was a lust to kill, tomporari- nt nt ly became rational during the fire no and helped many of his companions Valer to get out through a window, calling dlssl to them soothingly. When tho dan. tatei ger was passed ho laspcd again into O'HIt insanity. unite Tho throe attendants who dlod F rushed into tho flnmcs ngnln and xjo again, darting down n voritablo cor- tnim, idor of death to carry on their work I " of roscuo. Ono was found pinned in J,! , a doorway by a harrcd beam, hi . i hand still clutching tho shoulder of 1 " tho man ho way trying to save. |