Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-03-18
TEN OR IS DEAD.
Windsor Hotel at New York
Burned, FRIDAY.
Guests Panic Stricken and Many Jump
From Windows and Roof.
Ten to IS Dead and 80 TO 40 Injured Many
Thrilling Escapes.

A<tW i III n, Mdi II ies'iAN7' W NA''Nii
which originated from the ignitins of
lace curtain. burst forth from the Sec
ond floor of the Windsor hotel at Attn
street and 9TH avenue. shortly after )
o'clock. this afternoon. just as the So
Patrick's day parade was passing the
building and in few moments they
had leaped up to the roof and envelop-
ed the entire 9Th avenue and 4lth street
fronts of the hotel.
Ten minutes later the flames We're
roaring through the interior of the ho-
tel and all means of escape by means
of stairways and elevators We're cut off
and there was the widest scene of eX-
element within and without the build
ing. Hundreds of guests and employees
were in the hotel when the fire broke
out and for many of them escape with
safety was impossible.
Probably from 10 to Is lives were lost
within half an hour. and 80 or 40 other
persons were injured in jumping from
windows and in rushing through the
roaring flames in the corridors and on
the stairways. Many who were injured
died later at nearby residences and at
hospitals. and others who made wild
leaps to the stone sidewalk We're 50
badly injured that they are still how
ering between life and death.
1t may be "a hours or more before the
complete list of fatalities may become
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
Espot where the hotel stood.
! fall liSt Of tho dead.
n Leland. Mrs. Elizabeth. wife of War
rem Leland. proprietor of the hotel,
burns of body; died at Flower hos
pital
Leland Helen, daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window; body
identified at East 51st street station.
Paddock. Mrs. Amelia. Irvington, N.
Y. Jumped from window; body at East
5lSt street station.
Kirk, Nancy Ann (Mrs. James S.
kirk Chicago. died in Bellevue.
Pierce, Mrs. NJ. Macon. Ga, died at
16 East 46th street.
Grady. Mrs Laselles, Elizabeth City,
n. c.. body at East 5lst street station.
Gibson. Mrs. Addic, 35, shock, died at
Murray Hill hotel.
Goodman, Eleanor Louise, II, frac-
tured skull. died in Bellevue.
Connolly. John, hoel employee. burns
and internal injuries; died at Flower
hospital.
Unknown woman (No. u body AZ
East 5lst street station
Unknown woman. middle agei.
Jumped from window: died at Miss
Helen Hould's residence.
Unknown man seen to jump from
roof at rear Of hotel; body not recoV-
cred.
Unknown child thrown from window
by mother: body not recovered.
Unknown woman. mother of above
child. who jumped from window; body
not recovered.
The following is a list of the injured
Roache. Kate burns of face. leg frac-
tured: Bellevue hospital.
Noonan. Polly. hotel employee, burns
of body: Harlem hospital.
McNichols. Patrick, watchman, burns;
Harlem hospital.
Mcclure. James. truckman. left leg
fractured. scalp wounds; Harlem nos
pital.
Mcphatter. DR.. Neil ankle fractured,
Harlem hospital.
Flanagan. Kate. domestic DUTIES q
body: Harlem hospital.
| Mallon. Nicholas, internal INJURIES
serious: Harlem hospital.
| Henry. Mehitable. probable ldtdi
! burns: Roosevelt hospital.
| waldo. Mrs. Frank, burns of BODY;
Roosevelt hospital.
| Bailey. Mrs. Catherine. 1854 Green
wood avenue, Chicago. burns of BODY
not sarious: Roosevelt hospital.
Hrayyer. Miss Helen, thigh broken
had burns of body; Roosevelt hos
pital. ~, e,o.,,r-
Won Spiedel, Mrs. leg ana RID lrac c'ur-
ed. Presbyterian hospital.
Missch, Mrs Catherine, burns or race
and hands, suffering from shoch' Ilea-
byterian hospital.
| Wheeler, Mrs. G.. r. SHOCK a"'
burns; Presbyterian hospital
! Wheeler, Miss Dorothy, sHoch an"
burns: Presbyterian hospital.
Boyce. Mrs. VIM. shock; Prespste-
ran hospital ,,,,r,s
| sbek,lton, Edward, Waterman, ourhs'
nrobably fatal: Presbyterian hospital
D,rkc. John. hotel employee shout
,,., dislocated; Presbyterian hospital
leland. Warren f., proprietor OF the
hntcI head cut; injuries dressed at
Flower hospital
| ,r,s.ins Mrs. Mark Kirk. Chicago
hyvtcrical. Bellcvcu Hospital.
nu,on Mrs. Alice W., of Georgia, shock,
sorio,,s,y injured, Bellcveu Hospital.
| Thomas. Nellie, assistant househeepei'
shock, BelleVcu
Cufford, John, severe scalp wounds
| Bellevcu. ,.,,. 80
t.urr,n Ellen. hotel cmploye' burns OF
| ho1v New York hospital.
30 Wm. f.. cashier, burns of body,
New York hospital
lanes. Arthur. fireman. scalp wound.
| calhoun. Mrs. c. H.. shock New York
| hospital. , \.
1.,,,,r,wn woman. p. fractured skull.
loo fractured condition critical Belle
veu Hospital.
I,,known man, hands and arms burned.
MI, aan,es could not be checked