Editorial Note:
May Bragdon's letter to
Trudy about the
Orphan Asylum
fire, date : January 10,
1901.
"and even then the communication between the wing and the main
part was sent off.
Meta,
Mr. Behn and I got to the doors about the same
minute—and after we got down stairs came the only explosion I heard
and almost immediately the fourth floor of the west wing burst out
in flames—the fire had just rushed up the stairway and cut off the hospital and
the girls dormitory. Little barefoot boys in their nighties began to appear
and we shouted them to run over to us. They all followed. the first..."