Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23
kIFTEEN PERSONS PERISH IN
BURNING OF wINDagR.
VICTIMS SUFFER AWFULLY
Some of Them Jump from Windows
in Top Stories and Some Even from
the Roof-Several Sufferers Taken
to Helen Goulds Home Nearby
How Fire Started.


curtain burst forth from the second
floor of the Windsor hotel, 47th street
and 5th avenue, shortly after 3 o'clock
Friday afternoon, just as st. Patrick 3
day parade was passing the building
and in few moments had leaped up
to the roof, enveloping the entire 9Th
avenue and 47th street fronts of the
hotel. Ten minutes later the flames
were roaring through the interior OF
the hotel, and all escape by means oil
the stairways and elevators was cut
off. The widest scenes of excitement
within and without the building pre-
vailed. Hundreds of guests and en-
polyes were in the hotel when the
flames broke out, and for many Of
them escape was impossible. Prob
ably from 10 to Is lives were lost with
in half an hour and 80 or 40 persons
were injured in jumping from windows
or rushing through the roaring flames
in the corridors and stairways. Many
of the injured died later at nearby
residences and hospitals. 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 "a hours or more before a
complete list of the 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.
The list of dead Mrs. Elizabeth
Leland, wife of Warren Leland, pro-
prietor of the hotel burned on body,
died at Flower hospital; Helen Leland,
daughter of Warren Leland, jumped
from window and killed; Mrs. Ame-
liza Had1ock, Irvington, N Y, jumped
from window and killed; Nancy Ann
Kirk (Mrs. James S. kirk, Chicago,
died at Bellevue; Mrs. M. Pierce, Ma
con, Ca; Miss Lacelles Grandy, Eliza
beth City, N. c.; Mrs. Addie Gibson,
aged 35, shock, died at Murray hotel;
Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged II,
fractured skull, died at Bellevue; John
burns; VIM. F. Love, cashier, burns,
condition serious; Arthur James, lire
man, scalp wound Mrs. Caro- II. Cal
houn, shock; Mrs. C. C. Simmons,
burns Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal, burns;
unknown woman, fractured skull and
leg fractured, condition critical; un-
known man, hands and arms burned;
Thomas Mcpherson, burns on hands
and body; Mrs. Ed. Waterman, burns;
Mrs. c. H. burlington; Helen Wester-
field; Margaret Lawney; Mrs. Baden
berg; Miss Winters; VIM. Butler;
Thomas McClucky; Mrs. G. H. Strien-
err; Miss Rosenheim.
Following is list of the missing:
Gladys Thompson, daughter of Eu-
gene Thompson, West list street;
Sadie Belts, daughter of John Belts,
West list street; Annetta Upham,
daughter of ex-senator Upham of Ver-
mont; Mrs. Alfred Decordova, wife OF
a stock broker, having Office in motel;
Miss Bradley and Miss Steiner, New
York; Miss Catherine Morgan, 44S
Madison avenue; Warren Guien, ele-
vator man at hotel; Miss Auze, visit
ing at hotel; Miss McNulty
and Miss H. Buckhorn, New York;
Catherine Mccarthy, domestic; Kate
Shea, domestic; Mary Jose, domestic;
Kate Mcconnell; James vruit; Mrs.
Demorasch; Mrs. Joseph Brand; Miss
Margaret Fuller, niece of A. NJ. Fuller
of Philadelphia; Miss Troops; Mrs.
Connolly, hotel employee, burns and in
ternal injuries, died at Flower hospi.
tai; unknown woman, middle AGED,
jumped from window, died at Mss
Gould's residence; unknown woman,
body at East 51st street station.
The injured were: Kate Roache,
burns on face, leg fractured; Polly
Noon, hotel employee, burns on body;
Patrick McNicholas, Waterman, burns;
James Mcclure, truckman, leg frac-
ter, ankle fractured; Kate Flanagan,
domestic, burns on the body; Nicholas
Mallen, internal injuries, serious; Me-
hitable Henry, probably fatal burns:
Mrs. Frank r. Waldo, burns on body;
Mrs. Katherine Bailey, Chicago, burns
on the body; Miss Helen Brewer,
thigh broken, bad burns on the body;
Mrs. Won Speigle, leg and rib frac-
tured; Mrs. Catherine Misch, burns
on the face and hands, suffering from
shock; Mrs. G.. p Wheeler, shock
and burns; Miss Dorothy Wheel
er. shock and burns: Mrs.
William S. Boyce, shock;
Edward S. Keleton, Waterman, burns,
probably fatal; John Duke, hotel en-
ploye, shoulder disloeated; Warren F.
Leland. proprietor of the hotel, head
cut; Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, Chicago,
hysterical; Mrs. Alice w. Price,
Georgia, shock; seriously injured; Nell
lie Thomas, assistant housekeeper.
shock; John Clifford, severe scalp
wounds; Ellen Curran, hotel employees,
VIM. II. Chapman; Mrs. Buckley: Miss
Worth: Miss Jennie Ridgley: Ellen p.
Casey; Charles Ford; Mary Welch;
Nora Walsh; Mary Lammy: Mrs.
lanes II StnLac. Cbris+onha, AF;1ro-.