The record-union., 1899-03-18

John Duke, hotel employe, shoulder
dislocated
Warren F. Leland, proprietor Of the
hotel, head cut.
Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, Chicago,
hysterical.
Miss Alice Price, sister of former
Governor Price of Georgia, shock, seri-
ously injured.
Nellie Thomas, assistant housekeeper,
shock.
John Clifford. severe scalp wounds.
Ellen Curran, hotel employe, burns
on body.
William P. Love. cashier, burns, con-
dition serious
Arthur James, fireman, scalp wound
Mrs. Cora H. Calhoun, shock.
Mrs. c. C. Simmons, burns on mody.
Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal, burns on
body.
Unknown woman, %, fractured skull,
leg fractured, condition critical.
Unknown man, hands and arms
burred.
Thomas Mcpherson, burns, hands and
body.
Mrs. F. D. Waterman, burns, at 2
West Forty-seventh street.
Mrs. S. H. H. burlington, at 2 West
Forty seventh street.
Helen Westerfieid, at Dakota Flats.
Margaret Lawne, Manhattan Hotel.
Mrs. Baldenberg.
Miss Winters, at 7S4 Fifth avenue.
William Biller, Roosevelt Hospital
Thomas McClucky, at Flower Hos
pital
Mrs. G. H. Striener, at 2 West Forty
seventh street.
Miss Rosenheim, at Bellevue.
THOSE MISSING.
The following list of missing is re-
vised to 1890 a. m:
Gladys Thompson, aged IA, daughter
of Eugene Thompson, West Seventy
first street; Sadie Belts, daughter of
John Belts West Seventy-first street;
Annetta Upham, daughter of ex-Sena-
tor Upham of Vermont Mrs. Alfred De
Cordova, wife of a stockbroker having
an office in the hotel; Miss Bradley,
Miss Sterner, New York; Miss Cath
crime Morgan, AS Madison street; War
rem Guina, elevatorman at hotel; Miss
AuZee, visiting at hotel; Miss McNulty,
Miss H Buchhorn, New York; Cath
crime Mccarthy, domestic; Kate Shea,
domestic; Kate OConnell, James Vrint,
Mrs. Demorasch, Mrs. James Brand,
Miss Margaret Fuller, niece of A. NJ.
Fuller of Philadelphia; Miss Troops,
Mrs. w. H. Chapman, Mrs. Buckley,
Miss Worth, Miss Jennie Rigley, Allen
P. Casey, Charles Ford, Mary Welch,
Nora Walsh, Mary Lanny, Mrs. James
H. Stokes Christopher Muller, Mr..
McEloy, 75 years old, lived at the hotel
with his family; Miss Dora Hoffman
and two nieces, Baltimore; Eliza Kelly,
Mary Clark, Bridget Armstrong. DR..
Kenneth E. Kellogg, Miss Annie Taylor
Morga, Harry w. Lore, Mrs. Frederick
Mackay.
The flames could not be checked, and
in two hours from the time the fire
broke out the entire structure was in
ruins, and the streets on three sides
of the building were filed with debris
from fallen walls and chimneys, while
the streams of water being poured up
on the interior of the ruins had no other
effect than to fill the air with clouds of
scalding steam, making it impossible
for anyone to approach near enough to
search for the bodies Of those who per-
ished
The fire was the most spectacular
that could be imagined. When it broke
out Fifth avenue was crowded with
people watching the ST Patrick's Day
parade, and every window in the front
of the hotel facing Fifth avenue was
filled with spectators.
As soon as the flames were discovered
shooting from the windows that part of
the procession which was rear the
building came to a halt, and in a few
minutes the parade was disbanded, for
the police came rushing toward the fire
from every direction, and where they
We're able drove the people from the
streets.
One fire alarm after another was
turned in. The engines caused a wild
scramble among the paraders and spec
tators as they rushed along the street
and fell into position for service.
In addition to the regular guests of
the hotel, the windows We're crowded
by large number of spectators, resi-
dents of this city, who had congregated
there to witness the parade.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people in the lower floors of the hotel,
those who had easy access to the street
and the stairway, commenced to pour
out of the building in great numbers,
but it very soon became apparent that
a great majority of the occupants of
the motel were either panic stricken or
unable to make their way to the ground
floor Windows were thrown up on
every side of the building, and guests,
mostly women, in all stages of terror,
made their appearance and uttered
frantic appeals for assistance to the
crowd below. AS the flames gathered
about they became more and more
terror-stricken, and presently some of
them stood upon the narrow window
sills and beckoned to the spectators that
they were about to leap. The men col
lected on the sidewalks ready to render
any assistance they could, and in the
meantime some of the women left the
window sills ard dropped to the street.
In most instances the efforts to catch
them and break their awful fall were
unavaiing, for they struck the side
walk, and in most cases broken limbs
Were the result
AS soon as the firemen could get their
scaling ladders into position they
climbed the sides of the building and
entered at every window where there
was an unfortunate guest appealing for
assistance, and many cases of heroic
rescue We're witnessed by the throng in
the streets.
At the corner of Forty seventh and
Fifth avenue, directly across from the
hotel is the home of Miss Helen Gould,
and at her direction many of the in
jured We're carried there, and were
treated by physicians and nurses whom
she had sent for In the meantime the