Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22
new YORK HOTEL FIRE.
Many Guests Meet Death in
the Flames.
THE WINDSOR BURNED.
Gi ammoth Structure Quickly Become.
Roaring Furnace and is
Consumed.

New York. March 1S-The most COM
plete list of casualties at the fire at the
Windsor hotel shows that fourteen per-
sons were killed and possibly fifteen, with
out attempting to speculate on the bod
les in the ruins. Forty persons are miss
ing. Fifty-two names are in the list of
injured. whose whereabouts are known.
Revised list of dead
CONNOLLY, JOHN, employe Of hotel,
GIBSON, MRS. adobe, aged 30. Cincin-
natl, o. shock, died at Murray Hill hotel.
GOODMAN, ELEANOR LOUISE, aged
IL, daughter of Samuel Goodman of this
city. died at Bellevue hospital.
GRANDY, MISS LAZELLE, of Elizabeth
City, \; C., here on shopping tour, burned
HENRY, MRS. MAURICE, Of this city.
who died ut Roosevelt hospital at 8 O'Clock
this morning from burns and injuries.
KIRK, NANNY ANN, wife of J. S. Kirk,
soap manufacturer of Chicago, died at
Bellevue hospital.
LELAND, MRS. WARREN, wife of the
at Flower hospital.
LELAND, MISS HELEN, daughter of the
hotel proprietor found dead
PADDOCK, AMELIA, aged So, of Irving
ton, n. Y, died at the fire.
SULLIVAN, MARY, died at Bellevue hos
V' GNk \ }S Man, who jumped from roof
- uNKNoWS WOMAN, who jumped from
UNKNOWN CHILD, thrown from win
UNKNOWN WOMAN. mother of the child
above mentioned, jumped from hotel win
UNKNOWN WOMAN. Jumped from win
dow. died at 10 East Forty sixth street.
The names and conditions of persons
injured at the Windsor hotel fire were
reported at various hospitals today as
follows:
Bellevue Hospital
Miss Alice W. Price, sister-in-Iaw of Gov.
Gambler of Georgia, fractured leg. sprained
back; condition not serious.
Kate Roach, domestic of hotel, burns on
face and broken ankle; will recover.
Mrs. {. simmons. resident of the hotel,
burns, shock; condition doubtful.
Mrs. Nellie Thomas. assistant hOuSekceD-
er. shock: condition doubtful
Mrs Leo Rosenthai, resident of hotel.
slight injuries. shock; condition not serious.
Roosevelt Hospital
Mrs. Elton Brewer, resident of the hotel.
burns and broken right leg; condition seri-
GUS
avenue, chicago. burns; condition serious.
Presbyterian Hospital
Adelaide Wheeler, burns on back, shock;
improving.
Dorothy Wheeler burned hands and
shock; improving.
Miss Won spiegel, broken leg and rib; I'M
proving
Miss f. NJ Misch burned face, hands and
back: improving.
Edward SHELTON. plumber, this city, burns
of face; improving.
New York Hospital
William T. Love, clerk of the hotel
burned on face and head, improving
Ellen Curran, a domestic of the hotel
burns on arms and legs; condition not dan
GerOus.
Carrie Calhoun, lived opposite hotel. slight
burns; improving.
Flower Hospital
Patrick McNichols, nightwatchman of the
hotel shock: improving
James Mcguire, truckman, fractured right
leg and scalp wound improving.
Kate Flanagan, cnamDermaid. burns; con-
dition serious.
DR. Neil McPhatter, fractured ankle: i'm
proving.
Worked on Ruins All Night.
Three fire engines and a hundred po-
icemen remained all night about the
burning building. Those engines poured
six large streams of water Oh the flames
which would start up at intervals i'll
spite of the fremen. Little explosions
occurred every once in a while from es-
Gaping gas, the pipes having been
smashed all over the lower part of the
building-the only part that was left.
Citizens were kept a block away from
the ruins, as pieces of wall were falling
every now and then and there was dan
ger that the portion Of wall at the back
of the building and that on the Forty
sixth street side might fall at any time.
The bit of wall on the Forty-sixth
street side taDered to point and still
held two chimneys in place. 1t will be
pulled down during the day.
The wall. on the rear side, seven sto-
ries high, was still standing, but it
looked as though it might fall with the
first stiff breeze. The wall on the Forty
seventh street side was about two stories
high and that on the front on Fifth ave
nuc about the same height. The walls
had breaks in them and had jagged tops,
adding to the hldeOuS appearance of TIE
ruins behind them, which smoked and
steamed and emitted q bad stencil.
A Curtain Caught Fire.
Edward Killen, a milkman. said today
that he had discovered the fire. He was
watching the st. Patrick's day parade
when he saw a curtain take fire. He ran
into the hotel and tried to send III an
alarm by means of the hotel automatic
box, but it would not work. Then he
ran into the street, sending In an alarm
there, and returned to the hotel. He
said that a corporal and private of the
AstOr battery ran in with him. They
found the fire burning up through the air
shaft. He and the other two men got
down the hotel fire hose and played
streams on the main stairway, which had
caught nfe ana winch they saturated
with water. Their efforts were unavail-
ing and they had to give it up when
the flames came up to them.
BY this time Policeman Charles Lie
Gold said he rescued five persons from
she fire. He got four men out from
one Of the lower floors and carried a
fifth man down on his shoulders. He
heard a woman on the fifth floor, but
though he tried to get her he was unable
to do so, and he had to hurry out of the
burning building.
Gould Mansion Not Badly Damaged.
The home of Helen Gould on the north
west corner of Forty-seventh street, was
surrounded by Gordon of police all
night and morning, while detectives
guarded the interior
a policeman accompanied every person
who entered the house. Beyond a few
windows being broken, the house was
scarcely damaged at all, except slightly
on top, where the fire caught yesterday.
The interior was in great confusion.
All the bodies and all the injured had
been taken away. Miss Gould and her
brother Frank slept in the house all
night. The surviving daue liter of War
rem Leland, Fannie, remains at the resi-