The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-18
SCORES OF PEOPLE
UNABLE TO ESCAPE
Many We're Cremated and Others
Dashed to Death.
Twelve or Fifteen Lives Were Lost
Within Half an Hour and Many
of the Injured Died Later--Impos-
sible to Ascertain the Full List
of Fatalities-Hotel Was Crowded
With Spectators of the st. Pat
rick's Parade.

New York, March 17.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of a lace
curtain burst forth from the second
floor of the Windsor Hotel at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue, short
ly after o'clock this afternoon, just
as the St. Patrick's day parade was
passing the building, and in a few
moments they had leaped to the roof
and enyeloped the entire Fifth avenue
and Forty-seventh street fronts of the
hotel. Ten minutes later the flames
We're roaring through the interior of
the hotel and all escape by means of
stairwayS and elevators was cut off.
There was the widest scene of eX-
citement within and without the build
ing. Hundreds of guests and employ
ees were in the hotel when the fire
broke out and for many of them to es-
cape with safety was impossible.
Probably from ten to fifteen lives
were lost within half hour and thirty
or forty persons were injured in jump
ing from windows and in rushing
through the roaring flames in the cor
ridors and on the stairWays. Many who
were injured died later in nearby resi-
dences and at hospitals and others who
made wild leaps to the stone sidewalk
were SO badly injured that they are
still lowering between life and death.
1t may be twenty-four hours or more
before the complete list of fatalities
becomes known, and it will be longer
than that before it can be ascertained
definitely how many charred bodies are
in the mass of fallen masonry that
marks the spot where the hotel stood.
LIST OF DEAD.
Leland, Mrs Elizabeth, wife of War
I To1a 30 I.
burns on body; died at Flower hospital
Leland, Helen, daughter of Warren
Leland; jumped from window; body
Identified at East Fifty-Erst street sta
ton.
Paddock, Mrs. Amelia, Irvington, N
Y; jumped from window, died at Miss
Gould's house; body at East Fifty-first
street station.
Kirk, Nancy Ann (Mrs- James S.
kirk, Chicago; died in Bellevue.
Pierce. Mrs. NJ, Macon, Ga; jumped
from window; died at 10 East Forty
sixth street.
Grandy. Miss Laseelles, Elizabeth
City, n. c.; jumped from window; body
at East Fifty-first street station.
Gibson, Mrs. Addie, aged 35 shock;
fell from ONE of upper stories; died at
Murray Hill hotel.
Goodman, Eleanor Louise. aged II;
fractured skull; died at Bellevue.
Connolly, John, hotel employees;
burns and internal injuries; died at
Flower hospital.
Unknown woman, middle-aged;
jumped from window; died at Helen
Gould'S residence.
Unknown woman, body at Fist Fifty
first street station
Unknown man, 80, seen to jump from
roof at rear of hotel; body not re-
covered.
Unknown child, thrown from window
by mother; body not recovered.
Unknown woman, mother of child,
jumped from window; body not re-
covered.
Mcpherson, Thomas; burns; hands
and body.
Waterman, Mrs. F. D.; burns; at No.
2 West Forty-seventh street
Darlington, Mrs. S. H. at No. 2 West
Forty-sevent street.
Westerfield, Helen; at Dakota Flats.
Lawne, Margaret; Manhattan hotel
Badenberg, Mrs.
Winters, Miss; at 784 Fifth avenue.
Biller, William; Roosevelt hospital.
McClucky, Thomas; at Flower hos
pital.
Striener, Mrs. G. H; at No. West
Forty y-seventh street
Rosenheim, Miss; at Bellevue.
INJURED.
Roache, Kate; burns on face; leg
fractured.
Noon, Polly, hotel employee; burns on
body.
McNichols. Patrick, watchman;
burns.
Mcclure, James, truckman; left leg
fractured; scalp wound.
McPhatter DR.. Mel; ankle fractured
Flanagan, Kate, domestic; burns ON
body.
Mallon, Nicholas; internal injuries;
serious.
Henry, Menitable; probably fatally
burned.