Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-03-23
WINDSOR DEAD rs 16.
APPALLING LIST OF MISSING WHO MAY
HAVE PERlSHE0.
Thronged With Guests and Visitors Dur
ing the st. Fatrick's Day Parade-Blaze
Starts From Accidental Ignitins of Lace

ing the st. Fatrick's Day Parade-BlaZe
Starts From Accidental Igniting of Lace
Curtain-An Avenues of Escape Cut or
New YORK, March 1S.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of lace
curtain burst forth from the second
floor windows of the Windsor hotel at
Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue
shortly after 3 p m. yesterday, just as
the st. Patrick's day parade was passing
the building, and in few moments
they had leaped up to the roof and en-
veloped the entire Fifth avenue and
Forty seventh street fronts of the hotel.
Ten minutes later the flames were roar
ing through the interior of the hote
and all escape by means of stairways
and elevators was cut off. There was
the widest scene of excitement within
and without the building.
Hundreds Of guests and employees
were in the hotel when the fire broke out,
and for many Of them escape with safety
was impossible. Probably from 80 to
to 60 lives were lost within half hour,
and 80 or 40 persons were wounded in
jumping from windows and in rushing
through the roaring flames in the corri-
dors and on the stairways. Many who
were wounded died later in the nearby
residences and at hospitals, and others
who made wild leaps to the stone side
walks were SO badly injured that they
are still lowering between life and death.
The flames could not be checked and
in two hours from the time the fire
broke out the entire structure was III
ruins and the streets on three sides of
the building We're strewn with debris
from fallen walls and chimneys.
List of Dead.
Mrs. ELIZABETH LELAND, wife of War
rem Leland, proprietor of hotel.
HELEN LELAND, their daughter.
MRS. AMELIA PADDOCK, Ilvington. NY
! Mrs. JAMES 5. KIRK, Chicago.
= MRS. NJ PIP RCE, Macon, Ga.
| Miss LACELLAs GRUNDY Elizabeth, n c.
Mrs. ADDIE GIBSON, Cincinnati
| ELEANOR LOUISE GOODMAN.
| JOHN CONNOLLY, hotel employe.
| Two UNKNOWN WOMEN.
UNKNOWN MAN.
UNKNOWN WOMAN AND CHILD
Following is list Of the missing
Mrs. Mary Anglin, Jane Bruit, Mrs. N
K. Bradley, Aaron Bischotfshausen
Flossie Boyce, Mrs. M. G. Brush, Mrs
Boyd and daughter, Mary Clair. Miss
Egan, Miss Margaret Fuller. Warren
Gion. Miss Dora Hoffman, Miss Jose
Alexander B. johnson and wife, Alice
Kelly, Fred Leland, d. Lynch, Mis-,
Maggie Lowry, Harry V. Llwrie, Mary
Lanny, Mrs. Isabella Mcdonald, Miss
Anna Taylor Morgan, Miss Catharine
Morgan, Kate Mcconnell, Miss M. G
McNulty, Bessie Mcdonald, Catherine
Mccarthy, Henry Mccarthy, Jennie
McKenna, Jennie Morat, Mr.. Nash
Mrs. Patterson, wife of Judge Patter
son of Colorado; Miss Reid, Mrs. D. S
Salamon, Miss Rosina Salamon, Kate
Shea, Mrs. James B. Stokes, Miss
Adelfa Simpson, Mary Sleman, Mary
Soy, Mary Walsh, Annie Ward.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people in the lower floors of the hotel
who had easy access to the streets, com
menced to pour out of the buildins
in great mum bers, but it very soon be
came apparent that great majority o
the occupants Of the hotel We're eithe
panic stricken or unable to make thei