Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-18
FORTY ARE MISSING
This Is the Sad Record Of the
Windsor Hotel Fire in
New York.
IA OR 15 KNOWN TO Be DEAD
List of the Dead and Injured Which In
cludes the Names of Prominent People
Alarm Box Would Not Work
When Fire Was Discovered.

| ANV" YIN, NdICll Jo.~l It IllOSl cOtfl
plete list of the casualties in the Wind
| sor fire shows that II persons were
killed, and possibly Is, without attempt
ing to speculate on the bodies in the
ruins. Forty persons are missing. Fiji
| ty-two names are in the list Of the in
jured whose whereabouts are known
Three fire engines and 100 policemen re
| mained all night about the burning
building The engines poured six large
streams of water on the flames, which
would start up at times. Little explo.
sions occurred at intervals. 1t may be
noon before the search for bodies car
begin.
Chief Bonner said to-day that no fire.
men are missing. Edward Killen, a milk
man, said to-day he was watching the
st. Patrick's day parade when he saw a
curtain in the hotel take fire. He ran
into the hotel and tried to send in an
alarm by means of the hotel automatic
box, but 1T would not work. He returned
to the street and sent the alarm. He re-
turned to the hotel. A corporal and a
private of the Astor battery ran in with
him. They found fire burning up
through the air shaft. A hotel fire hose
played stream on the main stairways,
which had caught fire. Bicycle Police
man Charles Labold said he rescued five
persons from the fire.
A revised list of the dead is as fol-
lows: Connolly, John, employe of the
hotel; Gibson, Mrs. Addie, Cincinnati,
o.; Goodman Eleanor Louise, daughter
of Samuel Goodman, of this city; Gran
dy, Miss Lasalles, Elizabeth City, Hen
ry, Mrs. Maurice, of this city; Kirk,
Nancy Ann, wife of James S. Kirk, the
soap manufacturer of Chicago; Leland,
Mrs. Warren, wife Of the proprietor of
the hotel; Leland, Miss Helen, daughter
of the hotel proprietor; Paddock, Ame-
lia Sylvan Glen, N. Y; Sullivan, Mary,
of this city; an unknown man, who
jumped from the roof; unknown man,
who jumped from 5th avenue WIN
dow; unknown child, thrown from
window by it's mother; unknown wom-
an, mother of the child above men
toned, who jumped from the hotel win
dow; unknown woman jumped from
window. The injured are: Miss Alice
w. Price, sister-in-law of Governor
Gambler, of Georgia. fractured leg and
sprained back; condition not serious;
Kate Roach, domestic, suffered burns
and broken ankle, but will recover; Mrs.
c. Simmons, resident at the hotel, burns
and shock; condition doubtful; Mrs.
Nellie Thomas, assistant housekeeper,
shock and condition doubtful; Mrs. Leo
Rosethal, residence at the hotel, slight
injuries; Mrs. Ellen Brewer. resident at
the hotel burns and broken right leg;
condition serious; Mrs. Catherine Bal
ley, Of Chicago, burned condition Sc
rious Mrs. Louis Walter, of New York
City, burns, not serious; Adelaide
Wheeler, burns; Dorothe Wheeler,
burned hands; Miss Won Spiegle broken
leg and ribs; Miss F. Misch, burned
face, head and back; Edward Skalton,
plumber, of this city, burns.
The surviving daughter of Warren
Leland, Fanny, is Frustrated Warren
G. Leland, Jr., stated emphatically this
that though his father is pros
trated with grief, he is not insane, as
reported He thought the books of the
hotel, including the register, would
probably be gotten at to-day. The reg
lister will be invaluable in clearing up
the list of the dead, missing and in
jured At II o'clock to-day the police
had found no more bodies.
Commissioner Scanned said today, the
Windsor hotel was one of the worst fire
traps in New York, and added: "There
are other hotels in this city as bad as
the Windsor, and unless proprietors put
their places in proper condition for saw
ing life, will publish q list that |
have.