The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-18

had her safely on the ladder. A tremen-
dous cheer went up from the crowd
other Heroic Rescues.
Fireman John Hanna of the fire boat
Zephar Mills rushed through the smoke
to the top floor and found Night Watch
man MacNichols half asphyxiated. Han
ma lowered him by means of wire to the
fire escape, two stories below, and let him.
self down the same way His hands were
badly cut by the wire. Then Hanna as
/ sisted the old man down the fire escape.
Foreman William Kennedy of Engine
Company No. % rescued a Mrs. Brann
from the fourth floor of the hotel by
means of a scaling ladder Her rescue
was cheered by the immense crowd.
| A crippled woman was found lying on the
floor of a room on the fourth floor. una
BILE to move, and was carried in safety to
the street.
Capt. Emil H. Pate, of Company l., For
ty-seventh United States volunteers, rushed
up to the fourth floor, and rescued an old
crippled man who was partly asphyxia(ed
by the smoke and burned about the head.
Policeman Luke Miley rescued three wo-
men from the fourth floor, and was badly
burned about the hands and face, and his
uniform was nearly burned from his back.
Many of the guests who lived at the
Windsor regularly lost valuable jewelry
and brc-a-brac, and furnishings, among
them being F. f. Flower, a nephew of ex-
Gov. Flower. who among other things, lost
a package of jewelry valued at $1,000.
The loss on the hotel is estimated at
least 100000. 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.
Up to midnight the ruins had not cooled
off sufficiently to allow a search for bodies.
A big force of men IS now at the ruins
ready to make a search as soon as posi-
bic. 1t is believed by both iremen and po-
| lice that there is number of bodies in the
| ruins.
The list of missing for many hours after
the fire was practically over was very
large. Doubtless very many of the missing
are comfortably housed IN the Fifth ave-
nue. homes which were thrown open to the
sufferers. Doubtless, also, some of the miss
| ing will never be found.
Brooklyn Fireman Took Part.
A Brooklyn fireman, who came over to
see the parade, saw woman on the sew
enth story right over where the fire &C.
| CURED first. He rushed ups tairs and res
| cued Kate Flanagan, a domestic. She
was badly burned and injured by falling
| debris and was unconscious when brought
down.
Thomas Mcpherson, an employe of the
on laF1t 1nplrc
through the fire and smoke five stories and
rescued Mrs. r. Butler who was uncon-
| scious from shock and fright
| Mcpherson was SO badly burned that he
! had to be taken to the hospital himself
All of these rescues and many others hap
pened in period of a few minutes.
Many Terrifying Scenes
Meanwhile, terrifying scenes were being
| enacted by frenzed men and women on al
| most every floor of the great building
! How many persons are buried in the ruins
is moi known, but at least three or four
persons were seen to jump, whose bodies
| have not been recovered. A young man.
apparently an employe, jumped from the
roof of the Forty-sixth street side of the
| hotel, Another unknown man jumped on
| the Fifth avenue side, and two more We're
| seen to jump from the rear Shortly after
that two women jumped from the roof
to the courtyard below 1t is known that
| Two of these at least are dead.
Eye Witnesses say they saw a woman
| throw a child from a window and fan a
moment later herself. just before the col
lapse of one of the walls. AS yet no trace
| of these bodies has been found.
| j. Lemott Morgan of Birmingham Ala.
! who had been watching the parade with
a number of friends from the balcony. ran
to the fourth floor and rescued Mrs. Alger-
non Jarvis and her daughter Mabel. He
took them to the balcony and thence they
We're taken TO the street by fremen.
Abner Mckinley. brother of President
Mckinley. had four rooms on the ground
floor of the hotel. Mrs Mckinley and
her daughter, Mabel Mckinley occupied
the rooms with Abner Mckinley.
McKinIeys Got Out Safely.
Miss Mckinley had ordered coach for
| a drive at $3.50 o'clock, and was dressing
| for il when the alarm of fire was given
| She was in her dressing gown at the time
| She saw the smoke and becoming fright
| ened, opened the window and was assisted
| out by an unknown man. She walked half
| a block and found her carriage in waiting
She was driven to the Hotel Buckingham
Mrs. Mckinley and her daughter, Helen
| Mckinley, were entertaining Mrs. John
( Sherwood, the author. Both Mrs. McKin-
| ley and her daughter and her guest got
out, assisted by two men. but they do not
know how. The McKinleys went to the
Manhattan Hotel where there was joy
| full reunion Of the family. They lost ev-
erything except the clothes they wore.
Burning of Mrs. Leland.
DR.. E. Parmelly Brown of 500 Fifth ave-
nue. and A. e. Brown Of Congress flights,
Washington, knowing the McKInleys were
in the hotel, rushed to the place as soon
as they learned of the fire, and rushed
upstairs. AS they were going up to the
stairs they saw two men, one a fireman
and the other an employe, bringing down
Mrs. Warren Leland. The woman's
| clothes were burned from her body.
The men told DR.. Brown that they had
| found the woman in the hallway lying
| on the floor unconscious. The men said
| that they saw one woman leap from the
window OF the room but they had no
time to stop her. She was Miss Helen
Leland, daughter of Mrs. Leland.
This was the saddest incident OF the fire
Warren Leland is the proprietor of the
hotel The Lelands have another daugn-