The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-18
In q Ma8l8trOnn Of F'lann8
APPALLING HOLOCAUST AT THE
WINDSOR HOTEL.
Half Score Dead and Many Injured Fright
ful Leaps to Doom-Abner
McKinley's Escape.

New York. March 17.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of a lace
floor of the Windsor hotel at 47th
street and 9th Avenue shortly after }
O'clock this afternoon, and in a few
minutes they had leaped up to the roof
and enveloped the entire Fifth Avenue
and Forty-seventh street fronts of the
hotel Ten minutes later the flames were
roaring through the interior of the hotel,
and all means of escape by way of stair
ways and elevators were cut off, and
there was the widest scene of excite
ment within and without the building.
Hundreds of guests and employees were
in the hotel when the fire broke out and
for many of them to escape was an inn
possibility. Probably from ten to fifteen
lives were lost within half hour, and
, thirty or forty other persons were in
jured i'll jumping from windows and in
rushing through the flames in the corri-
doris and ON the stairways. Many who
We're injured died later at nearby resi-
dences or at hospitals, and others who
made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks
were SO badly injured that they are still
lowering between life and death 1t
may be "a hours or more before the COM
plete list of fatalities becomes known and
it wnl 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
LIST OF DEAD.
LELAND, MRS. ELIZABETH, wife
of Warren Leland, proprietor of the
hotel: burns of body; died at Flower
Hospital.
LELAND. HELEN, daughter of War
ren Leland, jumped from window;
body identified at East Fifty first
street station.
PADDOCK, MRS. AMELIA, Irving
ton. n. Y, jumped from window; body
at East Fifty-first street station.
KIRK, NANCY ANN (Mrs. James S.
Kirk, Chicago: died in Bellevue.
PIERCE. MRS. NJ, Macon, Ca. died
at 10 East Forty-sixth street.
GRANDY, MISS LAZELLES, Eliza
beth City, n. c., body at East Fifty
first street station.
GIBSON, MRS. ADDIE, aged So
shock; died at Murray Hill Hotel.
GOLDMAN, ELEANOR LOUISE
aged II, fractured skull; died at Belle
yue.
CONNOLLY, JOHN, hotel employe
burns and internal injuries; died al
Flower Hospital.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, middle aged
jumped from window; died at Miss
Helen Goulds residence.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, body at East
F'ifty-frst street station.
UNKNOWN MAN, 35. seen to JUMP
from roof at rear of hotel; body not
recovered.
window, by mother; body not recov.
cred.
UNkNOWN WOMAN, mother OF
child, jumped from window; body not
recovered.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
ROACHE.. KATE. burns of face, leg
fractured; Bellevue Hospital.
NOONAN. i POLLY, hotel employe
burns of tie body.
MNICHOLAS. PATRICK, watchman
burns.
INQUIRE, JAMES, truckman; left leg
fractured; scalp wound.
AEPHATTER, DIR. NEIL, ankle frac-
tured.
FLANAGAN, KATE, domestic; burns
of body.
MALLON. NICHOLAS, internal in,
iuries, serious.
HENRY, MEIIITABLE, probably fatal
burns.
WALDO, MRS. FRANK r., burns of
body
BAILEY, MRS. CATHERINE, 4.634
Greenwood avenue, Chicago, burns of
the body, not serious.
BREWER, MISS HELEN, thigh bro
ken, bad burns of body.
Won SPEIGIlE, MRS, leg and RIB
fractured
AIISCH, MRS. CATHERINE, burns OF
face and hands. suffering from shock.
WHEELER, Mrs. T.. T., shock and
burns.
WHEELER, MISS DOROTHY, shock
and burns
BOYCE, MRS. WA1 s.. shock.
SKEkELTON, EDWARD, watchman,
burns, probably fatal.
DUKE. JOHN, hotel employe. shoulder
tlislocated.
LELAND, WARREN f., proprietor of
the hotel, head cut.
HASKINS, MRS. MARY KIRK, Chi
cago, hysterical.
PRICE, MISS ALICE, sister of for
mer Governor Price, of Georgia
shock; seriously injured.
THOMAS NELLIE, assistant house
\ keeper, shock.
.CLIFFORD, JOHN, severe scall
wounds.
/ CURRAN. ELLEN, hotel. employ,
burns of body.
JOVE WM r. cashier burns. con
dtion serious.
wound.
CALHOUN MRS. CARO- H., shock
SIMMONS, MRS. c. c., burns of body