The title says it all. Firemen went into a burning building and rescued subjects in the dissection room. This happened in Chicago, 1902.
Ghastly Joke on Firemen
Firemen who groped their was through fire and smoke and dragged six bodies into the street from Bennett Hospital, at Ade and Fulton Streets, carried on their heroic labors in the belief that they were rescuing persons who had been asphyxiated.
Not until the fire had been subdued did they learn that they had been in the dissecting-room of Medical College, and that the rescued bodies were from the dissecting tables of the school.
