Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-03-23
A HOTEL HOLOCAUST
FIFTEEN PERSONS PERISH IN
BURNING OF WINDSOR.
VICTIMS SUFFER AWFULLY
Some of Them Jump from Windows
in Top Stories and Some Even from
the Roof-Seyeral Sufferers Taken
to Helen Gould's Home Nearby
How Fire Started.

New York, March 1S.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of lace
curtain burst forth from the secono
floor OF the Windsor hotel, 41th street
and 5th avenue, shortly after o'clock
Friday afternoon, just as st. Patrick 8
day parade was passing the building
and in few moments had leaped up
to the roof, enyeloping the entire 5th
avenue and 47th street fronts OF the
hotel. Ten minutes later the fiames
were roaring through the interior OF
the hotel, and all escape by means OF
the stairways and elevators was cut
off The widest scenes of excitement
within asa without the building pre-
vailed. Hundreds of guests and en-
polyes were in the hotel when the
flames broke out, and for many Of
them escape was impossible. Prob
ably from 10 to Is lives were lost with
in half an hour and 80 or 40 persons
were injured in jumping from windows
or rushing through the roaring flames
in the corridors and stairways. Many
of the injured died later at nearby
residences and hospitals. Others who
made wild leaps to the stone sidewalk
were so badly injured that they are
still lowering between life and death.
II may be "a hours or more before a
complete list of the fatalities becomes
known, and it will be longer than that
before it can be ascertained definitely
how many charred bodies are in the
mass of fallen masonry that marks the
spot where the hotel stood.
The list of dead: Mrs. Elizabeth
Leland, wife of Warren Leland, pro-
prietor of the hotel, burned on body,
died at Flower hospital, Helen belana,
daughter of Warren Leland, jumped
from window and killed; Mrs. Anne
liza Haddock Irvington, n. Y, jumped
from window and killed; Nancy Ann
Kirk Mrs. James S. kirk), Chicago,
died at Bellevue; Mrs. NJ. Pierce, Ma
con. Ga; Miss Lacelles Grandy, Eliza
beth City, n c.; Mrs Addie Gibson
aged 80, shock, died at Murray hotel
Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged Il,
fractured skull, died at Bellevue; John
burns; VIM. +. Love, cashier, burns
condition serious; Arthur James, IRE
man. scalp wound; Mrs. Caro- II. Cal
burns, Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal burns;
unknown woman, fractured skull and
| leg fractured condition critical, un-
known man, hands and arms burned;
| Thomas Mcpherson, burns on hands
and body; Mrs. Ed. Waterman, burns;
Mrs. c. II. burlington; Helen Wester-
| field Margaret Lawney Mrs, Baden
berg; Miss Winters; VIM. Butler,
Thomas McClucky; Mrs G Fl. Strien-
er; Miss Rosenheim
Following is a list of the missing
| Gladys Thompson, daughter OF E,u'
gene Thompson, West fist street;
| Sadie Belts, daughter of John Belts
| West 71st street; Annetta Upham
/ daughter of ex-senator upham of Yer
mont: Mrs Alfred Decordoya, wife o.
/ Miss Bradley and Miss Steiner, New
! York, Miss Catherine Morgan, AS
| Madison avenue: Warren Guien ele.
vator man at hotel; Miss Auze, visit
! ing at hotel, Miss MeNultS
and Miss H. Buekhorn New York
\ Catherine Mccarthy, domestic Kat
Shea, domestic; Mary Jose, domestic
Kate Mcconnell; James Vruitj Mrs
! Demorasch; Mrs. Joseph Brand; Mis-
Margaret Fuller niece of A. NJ. Fulle
/ of Philadelphia: Miss Troops; Mrs
Connolly, hotel employee, burns and in
ternal injuries, died at Flower hosrt
tai. unknown woman, MIDDLE aSed
jumped from window died at Ms
Gould's residence; unknown woman
body al East 51st street station
rhe injured were: Kate Roache
burns on face, lce fractured; POLL
Noon. hotel employe, burns on body
Patrick McNicholas, Waterman, burns
James Mcclure, truckman. leg frac
tured, scalp wound: Dr. Neil MePhat
ter. ankle fractured; Kate Flanagan
domestic, burns on the body, NIchola
Malleu, internal injuries, serious Ne
nitable Henry, probably fatal burns
Mrs. Frank Z. Waldo, burns on body
Mrs. Katherine Bailey, Chicago burn
ON The body. Miss Helen Brewer
thigh broken, bad burns on the body
Mrs. Won Speigle, leg and rib frac
tured; Mrs Catherine Misch, burn
on the face and hands. suffering iron
shock Mrs G. T. Wheeler, shocl
and burns. Miss Dorothy Wheel
err shock and burns Mrs
William s. Boyce shock
Edward s keieton, Waterman burn;
probably fatal; John Duke, hotel EN-
ploye shoulder dislocated, Warren !
/ Leland. proprietor Of the hotel. nca
cut: Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, CaicagC
hysterieal. Mrs. Alice " Price
/ Georgia. shock: seriously injured; Me-
lie Thomas. assistant hopsekeepel
shock. John Clifford, severe seal
wounds. Ellen Curran, hotel employee:
WIN. II. Chapman; Mrs Buckley Mis-
Worth. Miss Jennie Ridgley; Ellen
Casey. Charles Ford, Mary Welch
/ Nara Walsh Mary TammV. Mr.