57 LIVES LOST IN HOSPITAL FIRE: VICTIMS TRAPPED
(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 6. Fifty-seven lives were lost in the disastrous hospital fire at Effingham, Illinois, on Tuesday night. The death roll included 10 new-born infants.
Thirty-four bodies were taken from the ruins yesterday but the remains of 23 others are still buried amidst the charred timbers and rubble.
Two nuns, the hospital superintendent and a chaplain and two nurses died in the fire. The rest of the victims were patients. The fire was the worst hospital disaster in the United States since 125 were killed in the Cleveland Hospital fire on May 15, 1929. The 80-year-old building was believed to have been fireproof, but it proved a flretrap when the flames spread from the basement through the laundry chute to the three upper floors.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 5
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