Hospital Thought Safe, But Proved Firetrap
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Received "Wednesday, T p.m. NEW YORK, April 5. ' Fifty-seven lives were ' lqst in the disastmus hospital fire at Effing'ham, Ilineiis, la^t pight. The death roll included ten new-borp infants. Thirty-fonr bodies were taken from the ruins today but the remains of 23 others are still bnried amidst the charred timbers and rubble. Two nuns, the hospital superiptendent and chaplain apd twu nurses died in the fire. The rest of the victims were pat-ients, 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 proved a firetrap when the flames spread from the basement throngh the laundry chute to the three npper floors.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1949, Page 5
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