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Show FIRE IN A HOSPITAL ONE WOMAN LEAP8 TO 'HER DEATH FROM FOURTH FLOOR. Fire In Indianapolis Hospital Causes a Panlo In Which One Life .Is Lost and Several Are Injured, While the city fire department of Indianapolis, Ind., reinforced by companies com-panies from the suburbs, was being taxed to Its utmost, fighting tho Occidental Oc-cidental hotel fire early Sunday morning, morn-ing, an alarm was sent In from St Vincent's hospital. When tho first fire company arrived one llfo had been lost and several people wero seriously Injured In the panic that followed. For a tlmo it sccmod that tho flames, which started In a pllo of rags undor tho east stairway, would find their way to tho upper floors, resulting result-ing In a frightful holocaust At every window on the third and fourth floors wore" crowded the panic-stricken panic-stricken men and women screaming for help to those on tho street below. The panic that raged on the third and fourth floors continued until long after tbo fire had been extinguished. Patients who had Just undergone surgical sur-gical operations rushed from their bods to the windows and attompted to throw themselves to tho ground. Harriot Leahy, an old employco of tho hospital, leaped from a window on the fourth floor, and when picked up was dead. In the roar men and women were making ropes of bed clothing, by which they escaped to the ground below. be-low. Kato Beach, loss fortunate than tho rest, lost her hold and fell from the third floor, and Is now In a critical condition from Internal Injuries sustained. sus-tained. An unusual number of surgical operations wore performed In the hospital hos-pital on Saturday. Many of the patients pa-tients carried from their beds by tho rescuers were In a critical condition, and the physicians in charge fear that many fatalities, may result The patients wero carried to tho male ward,, which Is on the first floor, and was not seriously affected by tho panic which raged on the upper floors. Improvised cots and mattrcses wero brought Into use and a goneral call for medical assistance sent throughout through-out tho city. Within a short tlmo about a hundred physicians arrived and the patients were cared for. Harry Nichols, who underwent an operation for appendicitis a few hours before tho outbreak of tho Are, Jumped from his bed and ran down four flights of stairs Into the street His condition Is critical. James Dawson, an emaciated patient pa-tient worked heroically among tha panic-stricken men and women on tha third floor. Ono after another he pulled away from tho windows those .who were preparing to Jump to the street below and piloted them through tho smoko to places of safoty on the first floor. Aftor saving twonty-soven nurses and patients from posslblo Injury in this manner, Dawson lost consciousness conscious-ness and was carried Into the male ward, whore medical attention waa given him. For a tlmo It was thought that ho could not undergo tho torriblo strain to which ho had been subjected. |