The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18
WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE
The Well Known HosteIry
is Quickly Reduced
to Ashes.
IA KILLED AND 40 INJURED
FRIGHTENED WOMEN JUMP FROM
FOURTH STORY WINDOVS.

The Fire Was Discovered in One of tn
Hotel Parlors and In Half an Hour tn
Building Was Seething Mass O
FIomes Binding Smoke Prevente,
the Occupants, Principally Womc,
and Children who Were Watching
st. Patrick's Day Par ade, from Maxim;
Their Escape by the eStniryvays-Darin
Rescues by Flremen.
New York, March 17.-Flames, who'll
originated in the igniting Of a lace
curtain, burst forth from the secont
floor of the Windsor hotel at 46th street
and Fifth avenue, shortly after O'Clock
this Afternoon just as the st. Patrick's
day parade was passing the building
and in few moments they had leaped
up to the roof and enveloped the entire
Fifth avenue and 46th street fronts OF
the hotel Ten minutes later flames
were roaring in the interior of the ho-
Of stairways and elevators were cut off
and there was the widest scene of ex-
citement within and without the build
ing Hundreds of guests and employ
es 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 with
in a half hour, and thirty or forty other
persons We're injured in jumping from
windows and in rushing through the
roaring flames in the corridors and on
the stairways. Many who were injur-
ed died later at nearby residences, and
at hospitals, and others who made wild
leaps to the stone sidewalks were so
badly injured that they are still how
ing between life and death. 1t may be
twenty-four hours or more before the
complete list of fatalities may become
known, and it will be longer than that
before it can be ascertaned definitely
how many charred bodies are in the
mass of fallen masonry that marks the
spot where the hotel stood.
The following Is the list of the dead:
Mrs. Elizabeth Leland, wife of War;
rem Leland, proprietor of the Windsor
hotel; burns of body, died at Flower
hospital
Helen Leland, daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window; body
identified at East 51st street station.
Mrs. Amelia Paddock, Irvington, N.
Y, jumped from window; body at East
61st street station.
Nancy Ane Kirk (Mrs. James kirk,
Chicago, died at Bellevhue.
Mrs Price, Macon. Ga. died at 1e
East 46th street.
Miss Lazelles Grandy, Elizabeth City,
N. c., body at East 51st street station.
Mrs. Addie Gibson, 35, shock, died at
Murry Hill hotel.
Eleanor Louise Gordon, II, frac-
tured skull, died in Bellevnue
John Connolly, hotel employe, burns
and internal injuries: died at Flower
hospital.
Unknown woman, No l, body at East
51st street station.
Unknown woman, middle aged, jump
ed from window; died at Miss Helen
Goulds residence.
Unknown man, seen to jump from the
roof at the rear of the hotel; body not
recovered.
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 list of the injured:
Kate Roache, burns on face, leg frac-
tured; Bellevue hospital
Polly Noonan, hotel employee burns on
body; Harlem hospital.
Patrick McNichols, watchman, burns;
Harlem hospital
James Mcclure, truckman; left lxg
fractured; scalp wound Harlem hospi-
tai.
DR.. Neil MacPhatter; ankle fractured;
Harlem hospital.
Kate Flanagan, domestic; burns on
body; Harlem hospital.
Nicholas Malone; internal injuries; |
serious; Harlem hospital.
Mehitable Henry; probably fatal
burns; Roosevelt hospital.
Mrs. Frank R. Waldo burns of body;
Roosevelt hospital.
Mrs. Catherine Bailey, 434 Greenwood |
avenue, Chicago; burns on body; not
Roosevelt hospital.
Miss Helen Brewer; thigh broken;
bad burns on body; Roosevelt hospital.
Mrs. Won Speigle; leg and rib frac-
tured; Presbyterian hospital.
Mrs. Catherine Misch; burns on face
and hands; suffering from shock; Pres
byterian hospital.
Mrs. G. P Wheeler; shock and burns;
hospital.
Miss Dorothy Wheeler; shock and
burns; Presbyterian hospital.
Mrs. William S. Boyce; shock; Pres
oyterian hospital.
Edward Shekelton; watchman; burns;
probably fatal; Presbyterian hospital.
John Duke; hotel employe; shoulder
lislocated; Presbyterian hospital
Warren F. Leland, proprietor of ho-
el; head cut injuries dressed at Flower
hospital.
Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, Chicago; s
,ysterical; Bellevue hospital. {
Mrs. Alice w. Price, George; shock;
Bellevue hospital. IL