The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-03-23
Fifteen Persons Known to Have
Perished and Forty More
i Missing, @
Many Of Whom It Is Supposed
Are Still Buried in the
i Ruins.
Wife and Daughter Of the Hotel
Proprietor, Mr.. Leland, Are
sfedz3s'sdi Dead t9E1ii $50

complete list Of casualties ct the Wind.
sor hotel fre shows that fifteen persons
were killed, without attempting to spec
ulate on the bodies in the ruins. Forty
persons are missing. Fifty-two names
are in the list Of injured, whose whore
abouts are known. i s,l1'ff
Three fire engines and. q. hundred
policemen remained all night about the
burning building. These engines poured
six large streams of water on the flames,
which would start up at intervals
in spite of the firemen. Little ex-
plosions occurred every once in
a while from the escaping
gas, the pipes having been smashed all
over the lower part of the building, the
only part that was left. Citizens were
kept block away from the ruins, as
pieces of wall were falling every now
and then, and there was danger that
the portion of the wall to the back of
the building and on the Forty-sixth
street side might fall at any time. The
bit of wall on the Forty sixth
street side tapered to point
and still held two chimneys in
place. It will be pulled down during
the day. The wall on the rear side,
seven stories high, was still standing,
but it looked as though it might fall
with the first stiff breeze. The wall on
the Forty-seventh street side was about
two stories high, and that in front on
Fifth avenue, about the same height.
The walls had breaks in them and had
jagged tops, adding to the hideous APP
pearance of the ruins behind them,
which smoked and steamed and emitted
a bad stencil.
Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth and
Forty seventh streets were impossible.
They were covered with debris from the
walls of the hotel, and in many in
stances, fagstones were broken by the
great crash of stone and brick.
Gangs Of men were kept all night at
the ruins, ready to begin the work of
removing the debris SO as to find bodies
buried underneath. It may be noon be-
fore the work can be begun, delay being
caused by the continual outburst Of
fame and the great heat still clinging
to the debris.
Chief Bonner said that no fremen
were missing.
The Known Dead.
MRS ELIZABETH LELAND, wife of
Warren Leland, proprietor of the hotel;
burns on body; died at Flower hospital.
HELEN LELAND, daughter Of War
TD1a,
identified at East Fifty-first street sta
ton
MRS.AMELIA PADDOCK, Irvington,
NY; jumped from window; body at East
Fifty first street station
NANCY ANN KIRK Mrs James S.
Kirk), Chicago; died in Bellevue.
MISS LACELLES GRANDY, Eliza.
beth, N. g.; body at East Fifty. first street
station.
MRS. ADDIE GIBSON jagged So; shock;
died at Murray Hill hotel.
ELENOR LOUISE GOODMAN, aged
II; fractured skull; died at Bellevue
JOHN CONNOLLY, hotel employee;
burns and internal injuries; died at Flow.
er hospital.
MRS. MAURICE, of this city, who died
at Roosevelt hospital at 8 am. from burns
and injuries.
MARY SULLIVAN, died at Bellevue
hospital.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, jumped from
window, died at 10 East Forty sixth street.
E UNKNOWN WOMAN, middle-aged
jumped from window; died at Miss Helen
Gould's residence.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, body at East
Fifty first street station.
UNKNOWN MAN, 35; seen to jump
from roof at rear of hotel; body not re-
covered.
Z UNKNOWN CHILD, thrown from
window by mother; body not recovered
! UNKNOWN WOMAN, mother of the
child; jumped from window; body not
recovered.