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Escaped with Their Lives
Charity Hospital's overnight patients tell their own stories — a Pullman porter, a market watchman, a washerwoman, a man shot sitting on his own porch — survivors of a night the press treated as routine.
Charity Hospital's wounded, in their own wordsAlex Ruffin, a Pullman car porterEsther Fields, a washerwomanT.P. Sanders, shot on his own doorstep