Eighteen year old son of Thomas Davis and Mattie Corrine Snipes Baker. Thomas was one of 17 who died when the ward of the hospital he was a patient of was destroyed by fire.
COLUMBIA - Seventeen persons were burned to death when the eleventh ward, a single story wooden structure, at the State Hospital for the Insane, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Fifteen of the patients were burned to death within the four walls, two died later in the day from burns. The ward was occupied by 46 patients.
No theory was advanced as to the origin of the fire, except possibly from defective insulation of the electrical wiring. The flame was discovered in the ceiling directly in line with the wiring.
Published in The State, May 30, 1918
COLUMBIA - Seventeen persons were burned to death when the eleventh ward, a single story wooden structure, at the State Hospital for the Insane, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Fifteen of the patients were burned to death within the four walls, two died later in the day from burns. The ward was occupied by 46 patients.
No theory was advanced as to the origin of the fire, except possibly from defective insulation of the electrical wiring. The flame was discovered in the ceiling directly in line with the wiring.
Published in The State, May 30, 1918
Eighteen year old son of Thomas Davis and Mattie Corrine Snipes Baker. Thomas was one of 17 who died when the ward of the hospital he was a patient of was destroyed by fire.
COLUMBIA - Seventeen persons were burned to death when the eleventh ward, a single story wooden structure, at the State Hospital for the Insane, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Fifteen of the patients were burned to death within the four walls, two died later in the day from burns. The ward was occupied by 46 patients.
No theory was advanced as to the origin of the fire, except possibly from defective insulation of the electrical wiring. The flame was discovered in the ceiling directly in line with the wiring.
Published in The State, May 30, 1918
COLUMBIA - Seventeen persons were burned to death when the eleventh ward, a single story wooden structure, at the State Hospital for the Insane, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Fifteen of the patients were burned to death within the four walls, two died later in the day from burns. The ward was occupied by 46 patients.
No theory was advanced as to the origin of the fire, except possibly from defective insulation of the electrical wiring. The flame was discovered in the ceiling directly in line with the wiring.
Published in The State, May 30, 1918
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