Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davenport, Iowa, nurses worked at the desks, hurried soundlessly down hushed corridors on errands of the deep night. A nurse paused at a window, glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms and wards were 65 women and three men, all of them insane or suffering the gentle...
...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...