Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-03-23
A Long List of Mangled and
Burned Victims---Sev-
eral Will Die.
Little Progress Made in Remov-
ing the Debris From the
Ruins of the Hotel.
Abncr Mrkinley's Family. Who We're
Guests Of the Hotel. Mirac-
uously Escaped,
PAIRING Rrscucs. From Windows to Death.
Scenes OF Hrartrrnding Intensity
Erscrihed Financial Loss of
Almost One Million Dot
lars on Hotel.


lars on Hotel.
Nrw NuRK. March 10 Flames which
originated from the igniting of a lace
curtain burst forth from the second
floor Of the Windsor hotel at 4sth
street and Fifth avenue. shortly after
5 O'clock Friday afternoon, just a. the
~. Patr'ich'S day parade was passing
the building and in few moments
they had leapcd up 10 the roof
and developed the entire Fifth
avenue and isth street fronts
of the hotel. Ten minutes later
the flames were roaring through the
interior of the hotel, and all escape
by means of stailways and elevators
was cut off. There was the widest
scene of excitement within and with
out the building. Hundreds az guests
and employees were in the hotel when
the fire broke out, and for many of
them to escape with safety was impos-
siblc.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people in the lower floors of the hotel,
those who had easy access To the street
and the stairway, commenced to pour
out of the building in great numbers,
but ii soon became very apparent that
great majority of the occupants
of the hotel were either panic
stricken or unable TO make
their way to the ground floor.
Windows were thrown up on every
side of the building and the guests,
mostly women. in all stages of terror.
made their appearance and uttered
frantic appeals for assistance to the
crowd below. As the flames gathered
about them they became more and
more terror stricken, and presently
some of them stood upon the narrow
window sills and beckoned To the spec
tators that they were about TO leap.
The men collected upon the sidewalks
ready To render any assistance they
could, and in the meantime some of
the women left the window sills aud
dropped to the streets. In most in
stances the efforts to catch th,m and
break their awful fall were unavailing
for they struck the sidewalk and in
most cases broken limbs were the re-
suit.
As soon as the firemen could get
their scaling ladders into position they
climbed the sides of the building and
entered at every window where there
was an unfortunate guest appealing
for assistance, and many cases OF he
roic rescue Were witnessed by the
throng in the streets. At the corner of
47th street and 5th avenue. directly
across from the hotel is the home of
Miss Helen Gould, and at her direc-
ton many Of the injured were
carried there and were treated by
physicians and nurses whom she had
sent for. In the meantime the chief of
Police had telephoned to every hospital
in the city, asking that assistance be
sent. Ambulapces forced their way
through the crowds as quickly as pos
sible and the injured people who had
made the frightful leaps from the hotel
windows were placed in them and re-
moved to the hosp tails. Several occu-
pants of the hotel appeared at the win
dows of the sixth and seventh stories
and even on the roof and leaped to the
streets from those points
Very few of them escaped either in
slant death or injuries which resulted
in their death short time later.
One of the most daring rescues ef-
fected by the firemen occurred on the
fifth floor on the 5si avenue front.
An elderly woman was seen at a win
dow and two iremen succeeded in
reaching the window Immediately IN
derneath. One of them climbed to the
standing and then swung the woman
clear of the window and landed her
safe in the arms of his companion, who
with the assistance of several other
fremen, passed her down to the street.
The first horror occurred just Il
minutes after the fire broke out. A
handsome woman appeared at the win
dow of a room on the fourth floor. She
held out her arms to the crown below.
Then she raised her hands as il in sup.
plication. and in a moment climbed to
the window and leaped. She turned
about like a top and struck the iron
railing in front of the hotel Her body
seem TO be impaled there. but fell of
and into the area way. She was dead
. The woman was identified as Mrs
Amelia Paddock, of Irvington, y. Y.
VI NEW YORK. March 20.-The most
: complete list of casualties at the Wind
: sor hotel fire shows that Il person.
were killed and possibly Is. without
attempting to speculate on the bodie.
in the ruins Forty persons missing
Fifty-two names are in the list of in
jured whose whereabouts are known
II Three fire engines and a hundred
! policemen remained all night about
8 the burning building. Those engine.
| poured six large streams of water or
{ the flames, which would start up at in
tervals in spite of the firem Littl,
explosions occurred every once in 4
while from escaping gas, the pipe
having been smashed all over the lowe
part of the building, the only part tina
was left. Citizens were kept blocl
away from the ruins, as pieces of wal
!. were falling every now and then an,
= there was danger that the portion O
wall at the back of the building an,
that on the 10th street side might fal
at any time. The bit of wall on tn
. 46th street side tapered Il
a PORT and still held tw'