New-York tribune., 1899-03-19
MISSING PERSONS SAFE.
MANY FIRST REPORTED LOST ARE
FOUND

SOME OF THEM HAD NARROW ESCAPES WORK
MEN INJURED ~ TIE RUINs-DIsINFEc-
TANT BEING MADE Use OF.
Many who were reported yesterday TO he miss
Ing were heard from later In the day. but there
were still many more Of whom no Intelligence
is obtainabie. Ernest Ackerman OF Plainilcld.
y. j. received a telegraph dispatch yesterday
from his mother. Mrs. J. Hervey Ackerman. in
forming him that she and her daughter were
safe They had registered at the hotel only
short time before the outbreak Of the flames.
It was also learned that J. b. Rose. who was
guest at the Windsor. and was reported
as missing is safe and sound. He was at the
office Of the ROYAL Baking Powder Company
No 100 Wam-st throughout Friday after
noon and did not learn of the fire until the hotel
was IN ashes He lost all his personal effects
which consisted mostly Of clothes however, and
did not include anything Of great value. Mr.
Rose came 10 New-York a few weeks ago to
make ARRANGEMENTS for the new baking powder
trust and has stayed at the windsor since his
arrival He is the president OF the Price BaK-
ing Powder Company. Of Chicago.
The Rev Dr. Henry Wharton and wife who
were guests at the Windsor, now at the
Hotel Bristol They will return to Baltimore
as soon as Mrs Wharton is able TO travel Dr.
Wharton was not at the hotel when the fire
occurred and his wife rescued from their
room on the sixth floor by means Of rope lad
der She is suffering somewhat from the shock
but is unlnjured
INJURED IN THE RUINS.
President Murphy Of the Board OF Health
sent Drs. Blauvelt and Dillingham; to the ruins
with quantity Of disnfectant which they were
to pour on the ruins. Others were to relieve
them during the day. While the wreckers were
working on the Forty y-sxth-st side yesterday
morning. stephen Petrno. who was in the
| Building Department squad. climbed ladder
on that side and slipped falling twenty feet to
thu ground lie received a scalp wound ana
was taken home.
John Hogan thirty years old. of No 203 west
glxtv-sixth-st was at work the Forty-sev-
enth-st side opposite Helen Gould's house.
section OF the wall in being pulled down struck
him and broke his leg He was seen by MISS
Gould who was watching the work OF the men
from a window and she ordered him brought
into her house. Three cots were in the parlor
In readiness for such accidents. and FRANK
Gould helped carry Hogan to one Of them an
ambulance surgeon dressed the injury, and ho-
gan started for home.
A. a. Minis. OF NO East Eighty ty-seventh-st,
called al the East Fifty-hrst-st. station yester-
dav morning and inquired for Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Wichelmann who recently arrived from
Radenburg Germany. lie said they were al the
hotel He has not seen their names as among
the saved or missing or dead. and he believes
they are lost Mr.. Minis said h. went 10 lhe
hotel on Friday afternoon arriving at ! O'CLOCK
lie went up in the elevator TO 60 to the rooms
Of his friends At the third floor ne ana lhe
other persons In the elevator heard the SHOUTS ol
Fire, and the elevator-runner stopped the car
al the third floor. He got out and ran to the
front Of the house to a hre-escape. As he passed
the end room he saw a man grabbing up valu-
ables in the room like miser. lie said he was
astounded at the sight ,
Il caught the man." said Mr.. Minis, and said,
Why don't you try 10 save some HVes Elsueao t -,
me and gave me a look that seemed 10 be
murderers Then he dashed out. He was about
twenty nine years old. and dark. l III s"Ic He
was not Il guest of the hotel
Mr. Minis said he got out on the fire-cscape
and was trying 20 descend when mans podN
fell on him He did not lose his hold. but the
man who struck him fell down 10 me street.
He reached the street IN safety
EXPERIENCE OF A VICTIM.
Mrs Adelfne Landphier and Mrs Dinglcy
nieces Of Mrs Morris Henry who died in Roose-
Welt Hospital. said yesterday morning that the
woman was conscious up 70 within an hour OF
her death. She said that when the fire started
Dr N1acphatier told her 10 close one Of the
doors Of the room that was open. ana as she
complied with the request he closed tHe O'".!'
He then Opened window ana helped HeI ""''
He cot a rope that hanging IN tEe corner
and tied il and then Jet the end hang down.
She cot out and tried 10 slide down the r"pe'
the doctor helping her all he could. As sne
slid she fell. but she did not know how. lt was
believed bv othcrs that Mrs Henry struck
cornlce and that her hold WAS thus broken. She
was at the fifth floor and she fell 70 the slde-
walk Dr. Macphatter tried TO get our aitel
her and ne fell also as he tried 10 shde doNn
the rope He taken TO the Flower hospl,a. 5
and Mrs Henry 70 Roosevelt. Mrs. henry vas
married three times. She was first the Wlt OF
judge Frederick Leyermore, ot Canpt,aEt'
Mass She then was married to Harrison May
nard. Of Boston. and. after ne died; 10 'Ic
Henry She was widow Al the beginning OF
The winter Mrs Henry rented her fhth-aNe'
home and moved 10 the Windsor
Mrs Samuel Andrews and her three dauS"-
ters Of Cleveland. Ohio. who We're reported az
among the missing. were not staying al ,ie
Windsor at ALL with h'r husbanu S,.s.i anu v.,h-
daughters Mrs. Andrews was at the Hotti Neih-
.rland where they have been passing the VIII
Ter T'ntn this year they had always stayed ar
the windsor PreferIing however 10 ne nearer
the Park they went - the Neih0iiahd Tor ~"
winter. .,no,, r,,
Several oil paintings. valued at %2Vo~o me
property Of II W. Pope we're save by 'ap'a'!
Wilam r. Begeins and his men of Hook ana
Ladder Company No y. The paintings We're on
the paror noor just above the Office
The home Of Helen Gould was surrounded by
a Gordon of police all night and throughout yes
terday while detectives guarded the interior.
\ policeman accompanied every person VINO en-
tered the house. Beyond few windows being
broken the house was not damaged. except
slightly on top. where the fire caught The m
terror was in some confusion because of the
number Of injured persons taken in there on
Friday.
WHERE GUESTS FOUND SHELTER.
These guests found shelter in hotels and other
places az follows.
ANDERSON Andrew. Baltimore. Nd. Bristol
ANDERSON +. l.. -. Louis. No. Gisey.
ARRI'CKI.E Miss Pttsburg. Manhattan.