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Show USESKNIlf Patient in Cincinnati Hospital Seriously Injures INurses Cincinnati, Dec. 23. Serious Injury to two nurses and two patients and minor hurts to several other Inmates ' of the city hospital resulted today from a life and death fight with an Insann man weighing 215 pounds and 1 armed with a knife. The Injured: T. N Smith, night nurse, tendons and arteries of wrist severed. E. F. Mitchell, day nurse, artery in right thigh cut, Ave other stab wounds Inside and hands. Will Howe, patient, stabbed In left side below the heart; may die. Ferdinand Hoffman, patient, cuts and bruises over the head, received while being subdued. Hoffman became violent yesterday and was strapped to a cot He obtained ob-tained a knife In some manner and cut his bonds, hurling himself on Smith. Mitchell and Howe were cut when they went to Smith's aid,' Hoffman Hoff-man keeping up tho struggle until William F. Kuhlman, a -nurse in an adjoining ward, struck him on the head with a heavy cano. oo |