The age-herald., 1899-03-18
HOUSE FILLED WITH GUESTS Woman Threw Her Babe from
 Roof of the Building,
 THEN LEApED TO HER OWN DEATH Birmingham Man BraseIy Rescued Two
 of the Female Guests.
BREMEN WORKED PERIODICALLY
Risked Their Own Lives to Save Oth- ers-Lace Curtain Became Ignited and in Few Moments it Was
 Great Confagration.

New York, March 17.-Flames, which orig mated from the igniting of lace curtain, burst forth from the second floor of the Windsor hotel, at Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, shortly after o'clock this afternoon, just the St. Patrick's Day pa- rade was passing the building, and in a few moments they had leaped up to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the ho- tel. Ten minutes later the flames were roaring through the interior of the hotel, and all escape by means of s.airways and elevators was cut off, /
 There was the widest scene of excitement within and without the building. Hundreds of guests and employees were in the hotel when the fire broke out, and for many of them escape with safety impossible Probably from ten to fifteen lives were lost within half hour, and thirty forty per sons were injured in jumping from win dows and in rushing through the roaring flames in the corridors and on the stair ways. Many who were injured died later at nearby residences and at hospitals, and others who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalk were so badly injured that they are still lowering between life and death It may be twenty-four hours or more be- fore the complete list of fatalities becomes known, and it will be longer than that be- fore 1t can be ascertained definitely how many charred bodies are in the mass of fallen masonry that marks the spot where the hotel stood.
 List of the Dead The following is a partial list of the dead: Mrs. Elizabeth Leland, wife of Warren Leland, proprietor of the hotel, burns of body; died at Flower hospital. Helen Leland, daughter of Warren Le- land, jumped from window; body identified at East Fifty-first Street station. Mrs. Amelia Paddock, 1fvinglon, N. r., jumped from window; body at East Fifty first Street station.
 Nancy Ann Kirk (Mrs. James s. Kirk). Chicago; died in Bellevue. Mrs. M. V. Pierce, Macon, Ga. died at 19 East Forty-sixth street. Miss Laselle Brandy Elizabeth City N C.; body at East Fifty-first Street station. Mrs. Addie Gibson, aged 35, shock; died at Murray Hill hospital.
 Eleanor Louis Goodman, aged F, frac- tured skull; died at Bellevue John Connolly, hotel employee burns and internal injuries; died at Flower hospital. Unknown woman, middle aged, jumped from window; died at Miss Helen Gould's residence.
 Unknown woman; body at East Fifty-frst Street station.
 Unknown man, aged S5, seen to jump from the roof at the rear of the hotel; body not recovered
 Unknown child, thrown from a window by its mother; body not recovered. Unknown woman, mother of the child, jumped from the window: body not re- covered.
 List of the Injured Kate Roache; burns of face and leg frac- tured.
 Polly Noonan, hotel employe; burns of the body.
 Patrick McNchols, watchman; burns James McGuire, truckman; left leg frac- tured and scalp wounds.
 Dr. Neil McPhatter; ankle fractured. Kate Flannigan, domestic; burns of body.
 Nicholas James Malone; serious burns nhMrs. Frank R. Waldo; burns of body. ks. Catherine Bailey. 46s4 Greenwood "a, Chicago; burns on the body, not
 at Roosevelt hospital.
 Helen Brewer; thigh broken and
 rned on body.
 Speigel; leg and rib fractured
 herine Misceh; burns of face and
 suffering from shock.
 Wheeler; shock and burns
 hy Wheeler; shock and burns
 m s. Boyce; shock.
 lton, watchman; burns, prob-
 hotel employe; shoulder dis
 Leland. proprietor of the ho-
 Kirk Haskins, Chicago; hys-
 Bellevue.
 Price, sister of Former Gov
 of Georgia; shock and seri-
 led; at Bellevue.
 !homas, assistant housekeeper;
 Clifford; severe scalp wound.
 Curran, hotel employe; burns of lillian r. Love, cashier; burns, condi- Dh serious.
 Arthur James. fireman; scalp wound. Mrs. c. H. Calhoun; shock. Mrs. c. c. Simmons: burns of hohy ]