The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-18
FOURTEEN DEAD At MIDNIGHT
AND OVER FORTY SUFFERING FROM
SERIOUS BURNS AND WOUNDS.
Unknown Number I'm the Ruins-Prom-
fnent People Among the MangIed
Heroic Observation-Disclosures.

NEW YORK, March 17.-Flames which
tain burst forth from the second floor of
the Windsor Hotel. at Forty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue, shortly after 3 o'clock
this afternoon just as the st. Patrick's day
parade was passing the building. and in a
few moments they had leaped up to the roof
and enveloped the entire Fifth-avenue and
Forty-seventh-street fronts Of the hotel
Ten minutes later the flames were 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 excitement 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 ten to fifteen lives were
lost within half hour and thirty or forty
persons were injured in jumping from win
dows and in rushing through the roaring
flames in the corridors and on the stair
ways. Many who were injured died later
at nearby residences 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 be-
fore the complete list of fatalities becomes
known. and it will be longer than that be-
fore 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.
to midnight:
LELAND, MRS. ELIzARETH, wife of
Warren Leland, proprietor OF the hotel;
burns OF body; died at Flower Hospital.
LELAND, HELEN, daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window: body iden-
tifed at East F1fty-irst-street station.
PADDOCK, MRS. AMELIA. Irvington N
y; jumped from window; body at East
Fifty-hrst-street station.
KIRK, NANCY ANN (AIrs. James S. kirk.
Chicago: died in Bellevue
PIERCE MRS. NJ, Macon. Ga; died at No.
~ East Forty-sixth street.
GRANDY,- MISS LAZELLEs. Elizabeth
street station.
GIBSON. MRS. ADDIE, aged thirty five;
shock; died at Murray hill Hotel.
GOODMAN, ELEANOR LOUISE, aged
seventeen, fractured skull; died at Belle
yue.
CONNOLLY. JOHN. hotel employe. burns
and internal injuries; died at Flower
Hospital.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, middle aged, jumped
from window; died at Miss Helen Gould's
residence.
UNKNOWN WOMAN; body at East Fifty
nrst-street station.
UNKNOWN MAN. aged thirty-fve. seen
10 jump from roof at rear of hotel; body
not recovered.
UNKNOWN CHILD. thrown from window
by mother; body not recovered.
UNKNOWN WOMAN. mother of the child.
jumped from window. body not recov-
The Injured.
RoACHE. KATE. burns on face and leg
fractured
NooNAN., POLLY, hotel employee burns
on the body.
MNICHoLS, PATRICK. watchman, burns.
INQUIRE. JAMES. truckman, left leg frac-
tured and scalp wound.
M'PHATTER, DIR. NEIL, ankle fractured.
FLANNIGAN. KATE. domestic, burns on
body.
MALLoN. NICHOLAS. internal injuries,
serious.
HENRY, MEHITABLE, probably fatal
burns.
WALDO, MRS. FRANK r. burns on
body.
BAILEY. MRS CATHERINE, No. 1854
Greenwood avenue, Chicago, burns on
body; not serious; Roosevelt Hospital
BREWER, MISS HELEN, thigh broken
and bad burns on body
Won sPEIGLE, MRS, leg and rib frac-
turned
MISCH, MRS. CATHERINE, burns on face
and hands; suffering from shock
WHEELER. MRS. G. p. shock and burns.
WHEELER. MISS DOROTHY, shock and
burns.
BOYCE. Mrs. William s.. shock
SHELTON. EDWARD. watchman, burns.
probably fatal.
DUKE. JOHN. hotel employe. shoulder dis
located.
LELAND, WARREN F.. proprietor OF the
hotel. head cut.
HASKINS. MRS. MARY KIRK, Chicago.
hysterical: Bellevue Hospital.
PRICE. MRS. ALICE NJ, sister of former
Governor Price OF Georgia shock seri-
oCsiy injured: Bellevue Hospital.