Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1909 — DIES BY A FIRE IN SANITARIUM [ARTICLE]

DIES BY A FIRE IN SANITARIUM

Baby Tossed Oat of Window Escapes Injury. » . ..

AN EARLY MORNING BLAZE

Frank Greene Periahes In Flame* and Other Patient* Buffer Injurlea—Four Women Leap From Becond Floor to Bafety, One Breaking an Arm—Property Lots Will Exceed $22,000 —Dieaster Happens at Greensboro, North Carolina.

Charlotte, N. C., March 12.—1 n a fire which destroyed Biggs’ sanitarium at Greensboro today, Frank Greene was burned to death and a number of other inmates more or less seriously injured. Four women Jumped from secondstory windows and escaped alive, one of them having one of her arms broken.

The most miraculous escape was that of the infant of Dr. Biggs, proprietor of the sanitarium, which, though thrown from aS second-story window, escaped without a scratch. The property loss will reach $22,000. Invalids rushed to homes in the neighborhood and were given shelter. It is thought they will suffer from the effects of excitement and exposure.