River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-23
The Dead.
The list Of the dead is as follow

Inc DcBu.
The list of the dead is as follows:
Mrs. Elizabeth Leland. wife Of Warner
Leland, proprietor of the hotel; burns OF
body died at Flower hospital
Helen Leland, daughter Of Warren Ie-
land jumped from window; body identified
at East Fifty-first police station.
Mrs. Amelia Paddock, Irvington. N Y.
jumped from window body at East Fifty
first street station.
Nancy Ann Kirk (Mrs. James S. kirk
Chicago; died in Bellevue.
Mrs. NJ. Pierce, Macon. Ga; died at Is
East Forty-sixth street.
Miss Lacelles Grandy. Elizabeth City, n.
c.. body at East Fifty-frst street station.
Mrs. Addie Gibson, aged 35; shock; died
at Murray Hill hotel.
Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged II; frac-
tured skull: died at Bellevue
John Connolly, hotel employee, 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
first street station.
Unknown woman, partially identified as
the wife of a Baltimore financier; fell
while letting herself down by the rope fire
escape from sixth floor, and died in Miss
Helen Gould's house.
Unknown man, So, seen to 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 recovered.
A list of the Injured numbers 80, some
of whom are fatal.
New York, March 20.-The latest es-
innate with reference to the Windsor
hotel fire places the number of dead al
IS: INJURED, "a: missing As.
Several of the persons hitherto re-
ported as missing were found to be safe
Monday. The present list of missing
numbers A. This, however, takes into
account but few of the 200 servants OF
the house.
Fired by Thieves.
The police are now led to suspect
that the Windsor hotel fire was the
work of thieves. Many of the guests
who lost friends and valuables declared
that thieves had set the big hotel on
fire for the purpose of creating panic
and looting the rooms.
The Loss.
The loss on the hotel is estimated at
about $1.O00,OO0. Several adjoining
buildings were damaged considerably,
but the loss on these is comparatively
small All the papers and books of the
hotel are believed to have been saved
The Burned Hotel
1.-THE Windsor hotel was seven stories
high and almost square In form, had
a frontage of 200 feet on Fifth avenue ano
occupied the entire block between East
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets
The front center Of the building was eight
stories in height. 1t had also two wings.
each seven stories in height and rs feet In
length There were more than 500 rooms In
the hotel The building was chiefly OF
brick and was INTELLECTUALLY simple. II
was thoroughly equipped for fighting fire
and had pumps equal in force to six OF the
most powerful fire engines in the city II
cost about three-quarters of million dol
lars to build The Windsor's builder and
first owner was John T. Daily, and the build
ing was first opened as hotel in Septem-
Der, 1873 The Windsor for many years was
one of the most exclusive hotels in the
city and was in the height Of It's glory up to
ten years ago. II was the rendezvous OF
all the great Wall street operators from the
days of Commodore Vanderbilt and Daniel
Drew The hotel became known as wal
street by night" because of the visits OF
the great financiers. President and Mrs
Mckinley always stopped at the windsor
and celebrities of all kinds were its guests
Mr. Leland, the proprietor of the hotel took
charge of the Windsor shortly after the
close of the worlds fair in Chicago.1