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Hector McLean

Montana State Hospital, Warm Springs, Montana

Hector McLean was one of three people who died when fire destroyed a building at the Montana insane asylum at Warm Springs, according to The Pioneer Express, which reported it on October 9, 1885. The paper says every effort was made to save the three, but they could not be reached in time. The cause of the blaze is given as fire, with no further account of how it started.

Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. The newspaper article reports that a fire destroyed a building at the Montana insane asylum at Warm Springs and killed him.

Reported by: newspaper article (news report of the fire) (reporters).

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