Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1915 — Ninety-One Saved From Hospital For the Insane. [ARTICLE]

Ninety-One Saved From Hospital For the Insane.

Logansport, Ind., April 22.—Ninetyone patients in two infirmary wards at the Northern Hospital for the Insane were saved from death by fire early today by prompt action of employes, when the two wards were destroyed. Fifty-five of the patients were bed-ridden. The fire followed an explosion of a coal oil stove. The loss is estimated at $25,000. Work of rebuilding will begin at once. The fire caused by the stove explosion was well under way when a dust explosion incurred in an elevator shaft when the hospital fire department found itself unable to cope with the flames the the Logansport department was called. Superintendent Terflinger called a meeting of the trustees for today when plans to rebuild at once will be formed, ” *—