at Pingting From Our Own Correspondent.
taiku, Sha., Nov.
November 20, of the English thes on Phe evening of report the destruc
Baptist hospital for men in a anfu. This was the oldest mis gion hospital building in Shen as the institution was a practice of western medicine. m e founded in the province. for hospital was. ® memorial to Dr. Harold Schofield, the first foreign typhus in Taiyuanfu forty years physician in Shansi, who die
was erected under the supervision ago. The building just destroyed of Dr. E. H, Edwards, and in "he for many years carried on widely known and highly successful medical and religious wor! with Dr, Edwards, or who fol! a Some of those who were ed him in the work, were Benjamin Broomball, now 0 Sianfu, Dr. Harold Balme, president of Shantung Christ University, and Dr. Edwar own son, the late Dr, George Edwards, who died in Taiyuanfu in wie hospital caught fire about five o'clock in the afternoon, the cause being an over-heated furnace po. ho flooring on the third Root and. clothing of patients there was first ignited, but in a short time the whole building was ablaze. Fortunately, owing to the time of day, it was pestle to remove all of the fifty or more in-patients and to save most of the furnishing One patient died of shock and fright. The police and fire departments of the city were on hand promptly and did what they could to help, but Taiyuanfu is not yet equipped with thoroughly modern apparatus for work, so it was impossible to bring the fire under control. The largo three-storeyed wards were a total loss, but the chapel and some other buildings in the front of the block were saved. To these the patients were taken on the day following the fire. The monetary loss involved is probably not Jess than twenty thousand dollars. Much sympathy is felt with the English Baptist Mission in this disaster.
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