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Susan interrupted , explained the situation , got Ashbel the necessary clothes and freed Etta and herself of his worse than useless presence . At Susan 's suggestion such other men as had jobs were also fitted out after a fashion and sent away . `` You can take the addresses of their families if you send them anywhere during the day , and these men can come back here and find out where they 've gone -- '' this was the plan she proposed to the captain , and he adopted it . As soon as the morning papers were about the city , aid of every kind began to pour in , with the result that before noon many of the families were better established than they had been before the fire . Susan and Etta got some clothing , enough to keep them warm on their way through the streets to the hospital to which Brashear and his wife had been taken . Mrs. Brashear had died in the ambulance -- of heart disease , the doctors said , but Susan felt it was really of the sense that to go on living was impossible . And fond of her though she was , she could not but be relieved that there was one less factor in the unsolvable problem .