Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-23
FIRE HORROR IN NEW YORK
llahnOwn Number Of Lives Lost In
the Windsor HOTEL
FORTY INJURED, MANY FATALLY

much as the misty, muddy, steaming
mass OF broken stones, twisted iron
and crushed brick would admit. A
heavy, sitting vapor arose continual
", retarding progress OF tho workers
and keeping them for the most part
away from the center Of the ruins.
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered, and no moro deaths from
Eniurles received at the fire were re-
ported from the hospitals, but a mum
bor OF the injured were still In n SER
EOus condition,
The death list remains the same-l 0
and the list OF missing has been re-
duced to <l-as q number Of those pre-
viously unaccounted for reported In
person or had been located by friends"
New York, March ls,--lClames
which originated from the igniting Of
lneo curtain burst forth from the
second floor OF the Windsor hotel at
Torty-seventh street and Fifth avenue,
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
aeon, Just as tho st. Patrlck's day
parade was passing the building, and
IN few seconds they had leaped up to
tho roof and envelopod 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 escape by
means OF stairwayH and elevators was
aut of.
There was the widest scene Of ex'
Atement within and without the
building. Hundreds OF guests and
employees were in the hotel when the
Gro broke out, and for many OF them
escape with safety was impossible.
Probably from ten to fifteen lives
were lost within half hour, and thirty
or forty persons we're injured In jump
ing from windows and in rushing
through the roaring flames in cor
Ridors and on the stairways, Many
who were injured died later in nearby
residences and at hospitals, and Others
who made wild leaps to the stone side.
walks were so badly injured that they
Rro still lowering between life and
death.
IL may be twenty-four hours or
moro before the complete list Of fatal
ities becomes known, and 1t will be
longer than that before II can be as
ocrtained definitely how many charred
bodies are in the mass Of fallen ma
SOnry that marks the spot whore the
hotel stood.
Tho Dead,
Leland, Mrs Elizabeth; wife OF War
rem Leland, proprietor Of the hotel;
burns on body; died at Flower hos
Pital.
Leland, Helen daughter Of Warren
LELAND, jumped from window; body
identified at East Fifty-arst street sta
dion.
Paddock, Mrs, Amelia, Irvington, N
T.; jumped from window; body at
East Tifty-hrst street station.
Kirk, Nancy Ann Mrs. james s.
kirk, Chicago died at Bellevue,
Pierce Mrs. NJ, Macon, Ga, died at
- East Forty.siXth street,
Grandy, Miss Lacclles, Elizabeth
CITY, N j.; body at East Fifty-Hrst
street station.
Gibson, Mrs. Addie, aged 1Oi died at
Murray Hill hotel.
Goodman, Eleanor Louise, aged II;
fractured skull, died at Bellevue.
Connolly, John, hotel employee; burns
and internal injuries, died at Flower
hospital.
Unknown woman, middle aged;
jumped from window; died at Miss
Helen Gould's residence,
Unknown woman, body at East
Hfty-hrst street station.
Unknown man, aged rs; seen to
jnmp from roof at rear of hotel;S body
not recovered
Unknown child; thrown from win
dow by mother; body not recovered
Unknown woman, mother OF the
child; jumped from Window body not
recovered.
The flames could not be checked,
and in two hours from tho time the
Ere broke out the entire structure was
tn ruins and the streets on three sides
" the building were filled with debris
from fallen walls and chimneys, whilc
ahc streams OF water being poured
upon the interior OF the ruins had no
Other effect than to Gil the air with
siouds Of scalding steam, making 1t
impossible for anyone to approach
near enough to search for the bodies
81 those who persisted.
The fire was the most spectacular
shat could be imagined. When It
broke out Fifth avenue was crowded
with people watching the St, Patrick's
day parade, and every window in the
front of the hotel facing Fifth avenue
was filled with spectators
At the corner of Forty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue, directly across
from the hotel, is the home OF Miss
Helen Gould, and at her direction
many of the injured were carried there
and were treated by physicians and
aurses whom she had sent for.
Operated in u Balloon.
Boston, Mass. March 20. Thomas
Carroll Boone, the telegraph operator
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