The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-18

seized the scaling ladder and went up
story after story through the binding
| SNAKE. He climbed to the coping just as
| the woman appeared. Selling her by the
| waist and holding tightly to the wall OF
| the building. he crept slowly on the cop
| ing and passed the fafntfng woman to
! another fireman, who had braced him.
| self to receive her There was dreadful
| suspense the fireman drew the woman
| toward him and finally had her safely on
| the ladder. tremendous cheer went up
/ from the crowd.
/ Fireman John Hanna, of the freboat
| Zepher Mills. rushed through the smoke
to the top floor and found Night Watch
man MacNichol half asphyxiated Hanna
lowered him by means of wire to the nre
! escape two stories below and let himself
1 down safe the same way. His hands
| were badly cut by the wire. Then Hanna
assisted the old man down the fire escape
| Fireman William Kennedy, of Engine
/ Company No. %. rescued a Mrs. Brann
| from the fourth floor of the hotel by
means of scaling ladder. His rescue was
| cheered by the immense crowd.
! ~ crippled woman was found lying on
the floor of room on the fourth floor
unable to move. and was carried In safe
| ty to the street.
Assemblyman John Maher, Sheriff
Dunn and Police Commissioners Hess
Sexton and Abel assisted in taking per-
sons from the hotel
Capt Emil Pate, of Company L, Forty
seventh United States volunteers. rushed
up to the fourth floor and rescued an old
| crippled man, who was partly asphyXiat-
ed by the smoke and burned about the
| head.
Policeman Luke Miley rescued three
| women from the fourth floor, and was
! badly burned about the hands and face
and his uniform was nearly burned from
| his back.
| A Brooklyn fireman who came over to
see the parade saw a woman on the
| seventh story, right over where the fire
! started first. He rushed upstairs and
rescued Kate Flanagan, a domestic.
! She was badly burned and injured by
| falling debris and unconscious when
! brought down.
Thomas Mcpherson, an employee of the
| government docks in Brooklyn, went
| through the fire and smoke five stories
and rescued Mrs. r. Butler. who was I'M
| conscious from shock and fright. Nc
! Pherson was so badly burned that he had
to be taken to the hospital himself.
TERRIFYING SCENES.
All of these rescues and many others
occurred within a period of a few min
utes. Meanwhile terrifying scenes were
! being enacted by frenzied men and wom
| en- almost every floor of the great
! building. How many persons were buried
| IN the ruins IS not known, Out DIS least
three or four persons were seen to jump
| whose bodies have not been recovered.
A young man, apparently an employe,
jumped from the roof on the Forty-siXth
| street side of the hotel. Another unknown
! man jumped on the Fifth avenue side and
! two more were seen to jump from the
rear. Shortly after that two others
Jumped from the roof to the courtyard
| below 1t is known that two of these. at
| least, are dead. Eye witnesses say that
! they saw a woman throw child from
| a window and fall moment later her
self, just before the collapse of one Of the
| windows. AS yet no trace Of these bodies
| have been found.
j. LIE Mott Morgan, of Birmingham,
Ala, who had been watching the parade
| with a number of friends from the bal
cony, ran to the fourth floor and rescued
| Mrs. Algernon Jarvis and her daughter.
Mabel. He took them to the balcony and
! thence they were taken to the street by
| firemen.
| Abner Mckinley, a brother Of President
Mckinley had four rooms on the ground
| floor Of the hotel. Mrs. Mckinley and
| her daughter, Mabel Mckinley, occupied
the rooms with Mr.. Mckinley. Miss Nc
| Kinley had ordered a coach for o'clock,
| and was dressing when the alarm of fire
| was given. She was in her dressing gown
| at the time. She saw the smoke and. be-
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! and was assisted out by some unknown
| man. She walked half a block and found
! her carriage in waiting. She was driven
to the Hotel Buckingham. where she tele-
| phoned to her father, Abner Mckinley,
at his office at 30 Broad street.
| Mrs. Mckinley and her daughter,
| Helen Mckinley, were entertaining Mrs.
| John Sherwood the author. All OF them
| got out assisted by two men, but they
do not know how. The women became
separated. Mrs. Mckinley went to the
| residence of Rev. DR.. Morgan, at No.
East Fortieth street, and Miss Helen Nc
Kinley to the residence of the banker
Richard T. Watson, at No. 511 Fifth ave-
nue.. Finally all went to the Manhattan
| hotel, where there was a joyful reunion
| of the family. They left every thing eX-
cept the clothes they wore.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DEAD.
DR.. E. Parmalee Brown, of 500 Fifth
| avenue, and A. e. Brown, of Washington,
| knowing the McKinleys were in the no.
! TEL rushed to the place soon as they
| learned of the fire. AS they were going
up the stairs they saw the men, one
| fireman and the other employee, bring
! ing down Mrs. Warren Leland. The wonl-
| ans clothes were burned from her body.
| The men told DR.. Brown that they had
found the woman in hallway. lying on
| the floor, unconscious. They saw one
| woman leap from WINDOW OF a room,
| but they had no way to stop her. This
was Miss Helen Leland, daughter Of Mrs.
Leland. This was the saddest incident
| of the fire Warren Leland is the pro-
| prietor Of the Windsor hotel. The Lee
lands have another daughter, Miss Fan
ME Leland but she was away from the
| hotel at the time.
| Mrs. Leland died in Flower hospital at
| 9:15 tonight. Her son Charles was the
only relative with her when the end came
He remained at the bedside for some time
after her death took place, and then
walked quietly down stairs. There he
met his father, who with Warren Lee
land Jr., nephew, and friend. had
just come to the hospital. The old man
was greatly agitated.
Charlie, my boy, how Is your mother?"
he asked, his voice thick with emotion.
Mother is resting quietly, father" re-
piled the son, who feared to tell his father
the truth-that his mother had just died
Mr. Leland was then taken away by his
son to the house of friend.
STORY OF THE ENGINEER
Frederick Corbett, chief engineer of the
hotel Windsor said that he with his as
sistant, Robert Walker and twenty help
ers, were in the engine rooms. He was
made aware of the fire by the cracking