The Columbus journal., 1899-03-22
WINDSOR DEAD IS is.
APPALLING LIST OF MISSING WHO NAY
HAVE PeRlsHEO.

shortly after s p. m. yesterday, Just q
the st. Patrick day parade was passing
the building. and in . few moments
they had leapcd up to tho roof and en-.
veloped the entire Fifth avenue and
Forty-seventh street fronts Of the hotel.
Ten minutes later the flames were roar.
ing through the interior Of the hoee
and al escape BY means Of stairwayz
and elevators was cut Oh. There was
the widest scene Of excitement within
and without the building.
Hundreds of guests AID employees
were in the hotel when the Ere broke out,
and for many of them escape with safety
was impossible. Probably from so to
to 60 lives were lost within . half hour.
and 80 or 40 persons were wounded in
jumping from windows and in rushing
through the roaring flames in the corri.
dors and ON the stairways. Many who
were wounded died later in tho nearby
residences and at hospitals, and others
who made wild leaps to the stone side
walks were % badly injured that they
are still lowering between life and death.
The flames could not be checked and
in two hours from the time the fire
broke ont the entire structure was IN
ruins and the streets ON three sides Of
the building were strewn with debeis
from fallen walls and chimneys.
List Of Dead.
MRS. ELIZABETH LELAND, wife of War
rem Leland, proprietor Of hotel.
HELM LELAND, their daughter.
MRS. AMELIA PADDOCK, Irvington, NY.
MRS. JAMES s. KIRK, Chicago.
MRS. NJ. PIFRcE, Macon, Ga.
MISS LACELLAS GRUNDY, Elizabeth, NO.
MRS. ADDIE GIBSON, Cincinnati.
ELEANOR LOUISE GOODMAN.
JOHN CONNOLLY, hotel employe.
Two UNKNOWN WOMEN.
UNKNOWN MAN.
UNKNOWN WOMAN AND CHILD.
Following is . list of the missing:
Mrs. Mary Anglin. Jane Bruit, Mrs. N,
X. Bradley. Aaron Bischohshausen.
Fiossie Boyce, Mrs. NJ. g. Brush, Mrs.
Boyd and daughter. Mary Clair. Miss
Egan. Miss Margaret Fuller. Warren
Gion, Miss Dora Hoffman. Miss Jose.
Alexander b. johnson and wife, Alice
Kelly, Fred Leland, D. Lynch, Miss
Maggie Lowry, Harry V. Lawrie, Mary
Lanny, Mrs. Isabella Mcdonald, Miss
Anna Taylor Morgan. Miss Oatharine
Morgan, Kate Mcconnell, Miss n. O.
AcNulty. Bessie Mcdonald. Catherine
Mccarthy. Henry Mccarthy, Jennie
McKenns, Jennie Morat, Mr.. Mash.
Mrs. Patterson, wife Of Judge Patter-
son of Colorado; Miss Reid, Mrs. D. 8.
Salamon, Miss Rosina Salamon, Kate
Shea, Mrs. James B. Stokes. Miss
Adelia Simpson, Mary Sleman. Mary
Soy, Mary Walsh, Annie Ward.
Soon after the first alarm was given,
people in the lower lloors Of the hotel,
who had easy access to the streets. COM
msnced to spour out Of the building
in great numbers. but It vsEy soon BE-
came apparent that . great majority Of
the occupants Of the hotel were either
panic stricken or unable 70 make their
way to the ground floor. Windows
were thrown up ON every dde Of tha
building, and guests, mostly women n.
all stages of terror, made their appear
ance and uttered frantic appeals for aid
from the crowd below. But as the
flames gathered about them, they.b be.
came more terror stricken, and present.
ly some Of them stood upon the narrow
window sills and beckoned to the spec
tators that they were about to leap.
The men collected upon the sidewalks
ready to render any asslstance they
could, and in tho meantime some Of the
women left the window sills and
dropped to the streets. In most in.
stances the efforts to catch them and
break their awful fall were unavailing,
for they struck the sidewalk, and in
most cases broken limbs were the Te-
suit. As sc1n - the firemen could get
their scaling ladders into position, they
climbed the sides Of the building and
entered at every window where theEe
was an unfortunate guest appealing fox
and many cases q hegoic
rescue were witnessed BY the thfong
in the streets.
Lssp to the Sidewalks.
Directly across from the hotel 10 the
home of Miss Helen Gould and at her
direction many Of the injured were
carried there and were treated BY
physicians and nurses whom she had
sent for. In the meantime the chief Of
police had telepho ned to every hospital
ir the city asking that assistance be
sent. Ambulances forced their way
through the crowds IS quickly as pos
sible and the injured people who had
made the frightful leaps from the hotel
windows were placed in them and re-
moved to the hospitals. Several occu-
pants Of the hotel appeared 1t tho win.
dows Of the sixth and seventh stories
and even On the roof and leaped to the
streets from those points. Very few OF
them escaped either instant death or in.
jurles which resulted in their death in
. short time later.
The loss On the hotel II estimated at
about q. .00o. go. Il 10 believed BY both
fremen and police that there are num-
ber Of bodies In the ruins. The list Of
missing for 20 many hours after the fire
was practically over 10 very large.
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered and no moro deaths from
injuries received at the IRE Wefe ~
ported from the hospitals, but . num-
ber Of tho injured were still In ssri.
Gus condition. The death list remains
at 16 and tho list Of missing has been
reduced 10 43, a . number Of those pro.
viously reported - unaccounted for, re-
ported in person q bad been located BY
6ienda
Americans Fight UadoF DiDeuleSos.
HoNa KoNG, March 9l.-A core.
spondent Of the Associated Press at
Manila ays: An army has seldom
operated under harder conditions than
have been encountered BY tho American
Flying brigade" The country the
American troopers have traversed
10 intersected with lagoons. mar
row and unfoedabls rivers and
bamboos % thick that tho enemy
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