Cambridge City Home Fire Tears Through Aged Inmates
The Cambridge City Home fire, burning from a central tower with wings, left the building a shell after an hour. Patrolman McNamara and Patrolman Russell led rescues amid smoke as nurses and volunteers saved inmates, while Theresa Forbes and three others died or were feared dead in the tragedy.
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McNamara
Mary Fitzpatrick
Lizzie Bowlock
Nellie Coyne
Florence Hall
Miss Johnson
Miss Fitzpatrick
Russell
Dennis Horn
Thomas Lynch
Cambridge City
Nellie Johnson
Fire devastates building as crowd watches rescues
Open ground drew a large crowd of over 200 as three alarms rang for the fire. Firemen stopped the blaze from tearing the wings, while inmate Richard Hogan, wooden leg and all, escaped. Richard Hogan, brother of Edward J. Hogan who sought a name change, denied the move. Mayor Good said the home would be rebuilt at once after control.
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Richard Hogan
Edward J. Hogan
Hogan
Mayor Good
Fire at Arlington almshouse recalls 238 residents trapped
Dr H J Cronin recalls entering the burning almshouse on Arlington Road as flames engulfed the left wing. Firefighters struggled with icy water as authorities reported four dead while many residents on upper floors were believed suffocated or burned. Cronin aided inmates escaping via fire escapes and described a sealed room with a hot metal door.
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Arlington
H. J. Cronin
Mayor on the Job Raises Aid for Burned-Out Old Folk
Mayor Good mobilizes stores for emergency relief at Brattle and Central squares. Blankets beds and furniture shipped to set up new quarters. At the Home hospital women reveal frailty and fear as they are sheltered, many carried to waiting streetcars for transfer to new housing at 1 10.
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Mayor Good
Father John McCool
St. John’s Church
Central Square
Brattle Square
Charles F. Goodrow
Emma A. Goodrow
Mr. Goodrow
Cambridge
Good
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Somerville
Theodore Hannaford
Fat Woman
O’hearn
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U. S
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Mary Dunn
Guy Fr. Merrill
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