DEATHS IN FIRE
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST. BLAZE IN HOSPITAL. SPLENDID RESCUE WORK. SEVERAL HUNDRED SAVED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 27, 7.45 p.m. New York, Dec. 26. At Dunning, Illinois, fourteen patients in the State hospital for the insane were burned to death, and fourteen others are missing as the result of a fire which destroyed the building sheltering the tubercular insane. Approximately, five hundred patients were dining in the building when the fire alarm was given. The supervising doctor and twenty assistants, aided by patients who were already on parole due to partial recovery, assisted in conducting the greater number of the patients through the smoke to safety. / The institution’s fire department responded and attempted to search out those who had witlessly hid in their rooms.. Many such were rescued, along with others who had been confined tp thejr beds, but the building burned too rapidly to permit of saving all.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 5
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