Show SEVENTEEN mEIN mE DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE INSANE ASYLUM IS SCENE OF DISASTER HUNDREDS OF IN INMATES INMATES IN IN- MATES ARE RESCUED Later Search Reveals Bones of Unfortunates Un tin- Acts of Heroism Shown In Rescue Work Chicago Seventeen enteen persons Dersons are aro known to have perished In a fire which destroyed d a part of one section sec eec tion of one of the frame structures of the Chicago state Hospital for Cor the Insane at Dunning on the northwest edge edgo of Chicago Wednesday night Six hundred men patients who were inmates of tho the partly destroyed structure were rushed out Into a drizzling rain by guards as tho the fire spread About of them confused confused con con- fused by the darkness and rain es escaped es es- or wandered away from tho the hospital grounds Some of them thorn were rounded up UD later by police and motor motor- One Ono of the tho victims of the tho fire tire was tho the wife of an attendant who had rushed d into the tho building to rescue some Borne of the tho patients The patients were seated at supper In the large dormitory comprising one section of the tho story and a half haIr structure structure ture when the fire gong sounded Bounded the alarm being transmitted to about a dozen frame and brick buildings composing composing com com- posing the Institution Attendants nurses and doctors hurried hur hur- nod ried to the burning building to assist the attendants In charge of the tho patients patients patients pa pa- all of whom were victims of only mild forms of insanity and many of ot whom were soon to be discharged The patients were hurried from the burning building and at first it was thought that all had been rescued from the structure known among the patients as the death house because because be be- cause some sections of it had been utilized to house Incurables Later as the ruins could be penetrated penetrated pene pene- bodies were found burned be- be recognition Hospital author author- lues said salu it would he le impossible to Identify definitely many of ot the bod bod- ies les Heroic acts by both attendants and patients were responsible for the fact that there thero was not a larger loss of life lite Many patients assisted their more unfortunate companions who became confused contused Some Somo of the patients patients patients pa pa- are believed to have perished when they tried to save aVe Christmas trinkets Several patients who were bedridden bedridden rid bed den were carried out by attendants and three policemen rescued three inmates who had become confused and taken refuge In a lavatory locking locking lock lock- ing the tho door Chicago o fire Ire apparatus and details of policemen responded to the call for tor help and assisted In getting the fire tIre under control the policemen forming a cordon about the building to tr try to keep the patients from wandering wandering wan wan- dering a away way Excitement in some of or tho the buildIngs buildings buildings build build- ings near the fire firo was quieted quickly quick quick- ly by attendants there being about attendants for the patients at the Institution The orI origin ln of ot the fire tIro Is unknown Some of the hospital attendants said they believed it had started from an overheated boiler Other theories were that it had been started by a patient who laid aside a lI lighted Chri Christmas cigar In his ward as he lie started for the dining room or that defective detective wiring was responsible e. e Firemen estimated the tho loss at I |