The record-union., 1899-03-18

let himself down this way His hands
were badly cut by the wire. Then
Hanna assisted the old man down the
fire escape.
Fireman William Kennedy of Engine
Company No % rescued Mrs. Brann
from the fourth floor by meanssof
scaling ladder. His rescue was cheered
by the immense crowd.
Z A crippled woman was found lying
on the floor of a room on the fourth
floor unable to move, and was carried
In safety to- the street.
Assemblyman John H. Maher, Sheriff
Dunn and Police Commissioners Hess,
Sexton and Abel all assisted in taking
persons from the hotel.
Captain Emil H. Pate of Company L,
Forty seventh United States Volunteers
rushed up to the fourth floor and res
cued an old crippled man who was
partly asphyxiated by the smoke and
burned.
Policeman Luke Miley rescued three
women from the fourth floor and was
badly burned about the hands and face,
and his uniform was nearly burned
from his back
a Brooklyn fireman who came over to
see the parade saw a woman on the
seventh story right over where the fire
occurred first. He rushed upstairs and
rescued Kate Flanagan, domestic.
She was badly burned and injured by
falling debris, and was unconscious
when brought down.
Thomas Mcpherson, an employe of
the Government docks in Brooklyn,
went through the fire and smoke five
stories and rescued Mrs. r. Butler,
who was unconscious from shock and
fright. Mcpherson was so badly
burned that he had to be taken to the
hospital himself
All of these rescues and many others
occurred within period of few min
utes- Meanwhile terrifying scenes were
being enacted by frenzied men and
women on almost every floor of the
great building. How many persons are
buried in the ruins is not known, but
at least three or four persons were seen
to jump whose bodies have not been re-
covered. A young man, apparently an
employe, jumped from the roof on the
Forty-sixth-street side of the hotel An
other unknown man jumped on the
Fifth avenue side, and two more were
seen to jump from the rear.
Shortly after that two women Jumped
from the roof to the court below. 1t is
known that two of these at least, are
dead. Eyewitness say that they saw
a woman throw a child from a window
and fall moment later herself, just
before the collapse of one of the walls
9 no fy-cn 1f<
been found.
J. LIE Mott Morgan of Birmingham,
Ala, who had been watching the parade
with number of friends from the bal
cony, ran to the fourth floor and res
cued Mrs Algernon Jarvis and her
daughter Mabel He took them to the
balcony and thence they We're taken, to
the street by firemen-
Abner Mckinley, a brother of Presi-
dent Mckinley, had four rooms on the
ground floor of the hotel. Mrs McKin-
ley and her daughter, Mabel Mckinley,
occupied the rooms with Abner Nc
Kinley. Miss Mabel Mckinley had or
dered a coach for a drive at 3 O'clock
and was dressing for it when the alarm
of fire was given. She was in her dress
ing gown at the time. She saw the
smoke, and, becoming frightened,
opened the window and was assisted
out by some unknown man. She walked
half block and found her carriage in
waiting. She was driven to the Hotel
Buckingham, where she telephoned to
her father, Abner Mckinley, at his Of
flee at No. 80 Broad street Mrs. Nc
Kinley and her daughter, Helene Nc
Kinley, were entertaining Mrs John
Sherwood, the author All of them got
out, assisted by two men, they do not
know how The women became sep
arated, Mrs. Mckinley going to the res
idence of Rev. DR.. Morgan at No. 3
East Forty-fifth street, and Miss Helene
Mckinley to the residence of the
banker, Richard T. Wilson, at 81 Fifth
avenue. Finally all went to the Man
haitian Hotel, where there was a joyful
reunion of the family. They lost every
thing except the clothes they wore
Two men, one a. fireman and the other
an employe, carried Mrs. Warren Le-
land to the street The woman's clothes
We're burned from her body. The men
found her in the hallway, lying on the
floor unconscious. They saw one
woman leap from the window of the
room, but they had no time to stop
her. She was Miss Helen Leland,
daughter of Mrs. Leland. This was the
saddest incident of the fire. Warren Lee
Land is the proprietor of the Windsor
Hotel. The Lelands have another
daughter, Miss Fannie Leland, but she
was away from the hotel at the time
Mrs. Leland died in Flower Hospital
at 9:1o tonight. Her son, Charles, was
the only relative with her when the
end came. He remained at the bedside
for some time after her death took place
and then walked quietly downstairs
There he met his father, who, with
Warren Leland, Jr., a nephew, and q
friend, had just come to the hospital.
The old gentleman was greatly agi-
ated.
Charlie, my boy, how is your
mother?" he asked. his voice thick with
emotion.
Mother is resting quietly, father" re-
piled the son, who feared to tell his
father the truth that his mother had
just died.
Mr. Leland was then taken away by
his son to the house of friend.
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