The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-25

New York, March 17.-0ne of the
most daring rescues effected by the fremen
at the Windsor Hotel occurred ON the fifth
floor on the Fifth avenue front. An elder
ly woman was seen AT window, and two
fremen succeeded in reaching the window
underneath. One of them climbed to the
coping over the window on which he was
standing aud then stepped over to where
the woman was waving her hands despair
ingly. He then swung the woman clear
of the window and landed her safely in the
arms Of his companion, who, with the as
sistance of several other fremen, passed the
woman down to the street.
The first horror occurred Just fifteen
minutes after the fire broke ont 4 hand
some woman appeared at the window of
room ON the fourth floor. She held out
her arms 10 the crowd below Then she
raised her hands as if in supplieation, and
in a moment climbed to the window and
leaped
She turned about ike a top, and struck
the iron railing in front Of the hotel Her
body seemed to be impaled there, but 1t fell
of and into the areaway She was dead
The woman was Unidentified as Amelia Pad
docS, Of iryington, \. y.
cHEERED uAIRBREADTH REscUEs.
One Of the most thrilling scenes of the
iire-at 4 time when the building was a
cauldron OF fiame-waS the heroic rescue
of several women FROM the upper stories.
Nrs \ . H. Fuller Of Pittsburg, APP
peared with her maid at window of the
fourth story Ii seemed ike an age before
the ladder was put in position. firemen
ran up and, with great difficulty, brought
down Mrs Fuller and her maid
just as she had been gotten out Of the
window a middle-aged woman appeared at
a window north Of that at which the lad
der was placed THIS woman, fearing she
would not be rescued, prepared to jump.
She was warned to keep back. became
panic stricken and stepped back into the
dense smoke that was pouring from the
window
It seemed as if she had jumped into the
flames below in despair, A hook and lad
der man seized scaling ladder aud went
up, story after story, through the binding
smoke. lie climbed to the coping just as
the woman reappeared. The fireman seized
her By the waist and holding her tightly
to the wall Of the building, crept little by
little on the coping and passed the fainting
woman to another fireman. who had braced
himself to receive her.
There was a dreadful suspense as the
1 second fireman drew the woman toward him
( and finally had her safely on the ladder
\ tremendous cheer went up from the
( crowd
MEN As WELL As WOMEN SAVED.
Fireman John Hanna, of the ireboat
/ Mills. rushed through the smoke to the top
floor and found aged Night W Watchman Mae
/ Nichol half sutTocaied Hanna lowered him
by means of wire to the fire escape two stor-
/ les below and let himself down in the same
way His hands were badly cut by the
wire Then Hanna assisted the old man
down the fire escape
VIM. Kennedy, Of engine company No
%, rescued Mrs Brann from the fourth
4 floor of the hotel by means of scaling lad
der His rescue was cheered by the
crowd
\ crippled woman was found lying on
the foor of room on the fourth floor,
unable to move and was carried in safety
to the street.
AssembIyman John H. Maher, Sheriff
Dunn and Police Commissioners Hess, Sex
ton and Abel assisted in taking persons
from the hotel
Capt. Emil H. PATIO, of Company L,
/ Forty seventh New York Volunteers, rush
ed up to the fourth floor and rescued an
old crippled man, who was partly suffocated
/ by the smoke and burned ON the head
Policeman Luke Miley rescued three
women from the fourth floor He was
badly burned about the hands and face and
his uniform was nearly burned from his
/ back.
\ Brooklyn fireman, who came over to
see the parade, noticed a woman on the
seventh story, right over where the fire
broke ont first. He rushed upstairs and
rescued her She was Kate Flanagan,
servant. The woman was badly burned
and injured by falling debris, and was un-
conscious when brought down.
Thomas Mcpherson, an employe Of the
government docks in Brooklyn, went
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
occurred within comparatively short time
Meanwhile terrifying scenes were being
enacted by trenzied men and women on
almost every floor of the great building.
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