The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-22
WINDSOR HOTEL BURNED
New York's Famous Hosiery De-
stroyed by Flames with
Terrible Results.
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE KILLED.
Scores are Injured and Many Are
Missing - women Leap to Their
Death from windows Loss 20
Hotel Estimated at sI,0OO,OOo--
History of the Burned Hotel.

Death from Windows - Loss 20
Hotel Estimated at sI,OOO,00o-
History of the Burned Hotel.
New York, March 1s.-Flames which
originated from the igniiing Of lace
curtain burst forth from the second
floor Of The Windsor hotel At Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue short
| Is after three o'clock Friday after
noon, just as the st. Patricks day
parade Mas passing ,he building. and
In few moments they had leupcd up
to the roof and cnveloped the entire
Fifth avenue and Fortyseveuth street
fronts of the hotel. Ten minutes later
the flames were roaring through the
interior OF the hotel and all escape Ivy
means of stairways and elevators was
cut off. There was the widest scene OF
excitement within and without the
| building. Hundreds of guests and em
tploycs were in the hotel when the fire
broke out, and for many of them es-
cape with safety was impossible. Prob
ably from ten 10 fifteen lives were lost
within a half hour. and 30 or 20 Per
sons were injured in jumping from
windows and in rushing through The
roaring flames in the corridors and on
| the stairways. Many who were injured
died later at nearby residences and at
| hos pitfalls and others who made wild
| leaps to the stone sidewalk were so
badly injured that they arc still hover
| ing between life and death. 1t may be
81 hours or more before The complete
| list Of fatalities becomes known, and it
will be longer than that before it can
| lie ascertained definitely how many
,harr"d bodies are in the mass Of fallen
mas enrv that marks the spot where
the hotel stood. The list Of dead is as
follows
The Dead.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Leland. wife Of Warren
Leland proprietor of the hotel; burns Of
body; died at Flower hospital.
| Helen Leland, daughter of Warren I.e-
| land, jumped from window; body identified
at East Fifty-nrst police station.
| Mrs. Amelia Paddock, l-vington, n. Y;
| jumped from window; body at East Fifty
| first street station.
Nancy Ann XIX (AIra. James S. KirD,
| Chicago: died in Bellevue.
| Mrs. NJ. Pierce Macon, Ga; died at Il
| East Forty-sixth s:rCet.
| Miss I.acelles Grandy, Elizabeth city, y.
c: body az East Ffty-frst street station.
Mrs hddie Gibson, aged e.; shock; died
at Murray Ilnl hotel
| Eleanor Louise Goodman aged IL frac-
| tured skull died at Bellevue
| John Connolly, hotel cmploye, burns and
| internal injuries; died al Flower hospital
| Unknown woman. middle aged. jumped
| from window; died at Miss Helen Gould's
| residence.
| l'nknowa woman; body at East ffty-
| first street station.
| t.rknovn woman, partially identified as
| the wife Of Baltimore tinancier; fen
| while letting herself down by the rope fire
| escape from sixth floor, and died in Miss
| Helen Goulds, house.
| Unknown man, g.. seen to jump from ROOF
| at rear OF hotel: body not recovered.
| Unknown child, thrown from window by
mother, body not recovered.
| Unknown woman. mother of the child.
| Jumped from window; body not recovered.
| \ list of the Injured numbers 50, some
of whom are fatal.
\ revised list of the missing brings
the list up to II.
| Warren Leland Insane.
Overcome by Ecws of the death OF his
wife and daughter. following upon the
destruction Of the Windsor hotel, War
rcn T. Leland, proprietor of the ruined
hostelry. went insane Friday night. 1t
is feared that lie cannot survive the
>hork and that if he does his mind will
| he shattered.
1hc Loss.
Tie loss on the hotel is estimated at
lbout $1,000 600. Several adjoining
buildings were damaged considerably,
but the loss on these is comparatively
small. All the papers and books of the
hotel are believed to have been saved:
The burned Hotel.
1.-THE Windsor hotel was seven stories
high ard almost square in form, had
| frontage of 200 feet on Fifth avenue and
occupied the entire block between East
Forty-sixth and Torty-seventh streets,
The front center of the building Was eight
stories in height. 1t had also two wings,
each seven stories in height and IS feet in
| length. There We're more than $50 rooms In
the hotel The building was chiefly Of
| brick and was aTchitecturally simple. 1t
was thoroughly equipped for fighting fire
and had pumps equal in force to six Of the
| most powerful fire engines in the city. 1t
| cost about three-quarters of million dol
| lars 10 build. Tho Windsor's builder ard
first owner was John T. DAILY, and the build
ing was first opened as hotel in Septe M
her, 1873. The Windsor for many years was
one Of the most exclusive hotels in the
city ami was in the height of its glory up to
ten years ago. 1t was the rendezvous of
all the great Wall street operators from the
days of Commodore NandeI bilt and Daniel
| Drew. The hotel became known as Nv all
| street by night" because of the visits of
| the great fnanCiers. President and Mrs.
| Mckinley always stopped at the Windsor
| ana celebrities Of all kinds were its guests.
| Mr.. Leland, the proprietor of the hotel, took
| charge of the Windsor shortly after the
| close OF the worlds fair in Chicago]
0mcinI Relations to he Renewed.
| London, March lS-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard, after re-
ferring to the ratification by the queen
regent of the treaty Of peace between
| Spain and the United States, says:
| Official relations between the two gov
ernmcnts will now be PROMPTLY re-
newed. Ii ssrumored thatthe minister
| TO the Uni ted States will be Senior Don
]. BRUNETTE, Duke d'Arcos, former Span
,sh minister to Mexico, whose wife is
an American.
| Heat the Record.
New York, March l7.-Thurst,ay
money transfers between banks nj the
clearing house, in payment of debt bal
ances for the day. was $17,4l3,S62,
which is the largest transfer of the
kind on the records of the institution.
On January II, when total check ex-