The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-20
SEARCH FOR THE
WINDSOR VICTIMS
Two Hundred Men Work
in the Ruins.
NO BODIES YET RECOVERED
DYNAMITE USED TO BLOW
DOWN CHIMNEYS.
NO BODIES YET RECOVERED
Several Guests Reported Missing, In
GLIDING Archibald Clavering
Gunther, Have Been Ac-
counted For.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, March 19.-In a driz-
ling rain more than 200 men continued
to-day to work among the debris and
smoldering ruins of the Windsor Hotel
searching for the bodies Of those who
persisted in the flames and to recover
any valuables that might have escaped
the ravages of the fire. THE efforts of
the searchers were futile, however, as
the ruins were too hot to permit much
progress and the smoke arising from
the burning material was rendered
more dense by the dampness of the at
mosphere. At intervals during the
night flames burst forth from the burn
ing embers and forced back the work
men.
Work was begun this morning to de-
molish the fragmentary portions of
walls en- the east and north sides of
the burned building, and later the num-
Der of workers was reinforced and the
work of removing the rubbish pushed
as vigorously as was practicable.
The chimney, eighty-five feet high,
standing on the Forty siXth-s street side
of the ruins, near Fifth avenue, was
blown up to-day. Thirty pounds Of
dynamite were placed under the base
of this chimney and electricity was
used to explode it.
Smoke and steam still rise from the
debris and now and then tongues Of
flame shoot up, even at this late hour
after the fire. The workmen have been
able, to do only little superficial work
When they dig down a little way the
debris is so hot that they are obliged
to move to another location.
During the day WOrkmen were en-
gagged in picking to pieces the six-story
wall that is standing on the Forty
seventh-street side of the hotel site, in
order to make the search in the ruins
safe.
The second eighty five-foot chimney
was dynamited shortly after o'clock
this afternoon. The explosion wrecked
number of plate glass windows and
doors in nearby residences.
A large force of men were at work
during the afternoon on what was the
main entrance to the hotel. 1t was ex-
pected that bodies would first be found
there. A large amount Of small arti-
cles, principally the personal property
of guests, was found.
Daniel Sweeney, the emergency
wrecker Of the building department,
and three men had narrow escape
from injury and possibly death about
5 o'clock. The four men were on top Of
the six-story wall, which was still
| standing on the Forty-seventh street
! rear corner of the hotel, tearing it
down. A stiff north wind blew up sud
denly, and Sweeney felt the wall
! trembling beneath him. Sweeney
cried out warning and the men hur-
ried from their dangerous perch. They
were just outside the danger line when
! a great section of the wall, thirty or
more feet square and including that
portion on which they had been work
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of it fell on the roof of the house back
of the hotel, wrecking the roof. The
house had been emptied by order of
! the building department and nobody
was injured.
| Following is a list of the missing, cor
rected to up to o'clock tonight:
! Anglin, Mrs. Mary, As years, wife of T.
H. Anglin, New York; Bruit, Jane, 40,
New York; Bradley, Mrs. n. K, aunt
| of Mrs A M Fuller, of Philadelphia;
Bischoffshausen, Aaron, Germany;
Boyce, Flossie, s, daughter of w. S.
Boyce, New York, said to have been
rescued by father and afterward disap-
peared; Brush, Mrs. M. g.; Boyd. Mrs.
and daughter; Clair, Mary; Egan,
Miss; Fuller, Miss Margaret, daughter
of A. NJ. Fuller, Philadelphia; Guy,
Warren, elevator boy; Hoffman, Miss
Dora, Baltimore; Jose, Miss, servant;
Johnson, Alexander B., and wife, New
DurypOrt, MASS Nelly AllCe, II, ser
want; Leland, Fred, room clerk, cousin
of Warren Leland; Lynch, D.; Lowry,
Miss Maggie; Lawrie, Harry NJ, %.
New York; Lanny, Mary; Mcdonald.
Mrs. Isabella, ~, widow, family living
at Toronto; Morgan, Miss Annie Tay-
lor 40, New York; Morgan, Miss Cath
crime; Mcconnell, Kate; McNulty, Miss
M. c., 55, New York; Mcdonald, Lizzie,
New York; Mccarthy. Catherine v,
New York; Mccarthy, Henry; Nc
Kenna, Jennie, chambermaid, New
York; Morat, Jennie, 80, chambermaid;
Nash, Mr.; Nellie, Annie. known at no.
! tel as Annie Malloy, New York; Pater-
son, Mrs, wife Of Judge Paterson,
| Colorado; Reid, Miss; Salamon, Mrs. D.
| S., occupied room on fifth floor with
daughter. Rosina; salamon. Miss Ro-
sina, q; Shea, Kate, 40, servant;
! Stokes, Mrs. James B., widow of Gen
eral Stokes; Simpson, Miss Adelia, 90;
Sleman, Mary, %, New York; Soy,
Mary, %, servant; Walsh. Mary, SER
want; Ward, Annie, chambermaid;
Purdy, Mrs. I. H, Purdys Station, New
YORK.
The hospital reports as to the injured
are most favorable. Most of the pa
tents are improving. Some Of them
were able to leave the hospitals to-day
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