March 02--NORMAN -- The night watchman smelled smoke in the linen room of Oklahoma State Hospital Ward 14 at 3:45 a.m. on a spring Saturday morning in 1918.

Norman, OK (73069) Today. Sunny. High near 90F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph ... 1918, at Central Oklahoma State Hospital. Forty were killed in the blaze.