Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
NEW YORK HOLOCAUST.
lany Lives Lost in Windsor Hotel
fire Broke Out Friday Afternoon Spreading With liner ed
Idle Fury Cutting off Escape from Upper FOors.Over
20 Dead SO Missing, Many Injured

must be dead, and so she was Her bod
was terribly mangled Her hands wber
she held the rope were burned to the hone
No one knew the woman at this time. Sb
was carried to 10 East Forty-sixth stree
and later takeno the East Fifty-frst stree
police station, where she was identified
She was about 80 years old and beautiful,
dressed.
COOl-Headed Acts which Saved Life.
Joseph Goine, the attendant in charge q
the elevator in the hotel, performed heroi,
service during the excitement following
the discovery of the fire. He ran the ele.
vator up and down fully dozen times, and
on the last three trips the flames burst
through the elevator shaft, smuggling the
hair OF the passengers On each floor ex-
cited men and women clamored for admis-
SION. Michael Joyce, attendant in charge
OF the freight elevator, also rescued many
people, running the elevator until the shaft
was in flames.
The GOODNESS of Edward p. Wells of
Jamestown, North Dakota, saved his own
, life and the lives of his wife and daughter
though penned in by the fire on the fifth
floor, he saved his family and himself with
out burn or a hurt. All he had was a
rope-the same that the other frenzied ones
had.
First to come was his daughter. Down
the front of the building she slowly sank
wondered why-a score of others had
used those same ropes only to plunge down
trightfully without so much as a net to
catch them. 1t was more than human
strength could do to cling to that frai rope
Tor SIX stories without gaining Roadway.
But Miss Wells sank slowly Then |
saw why The cool father had tied the
rope under her arms instead of making her
clasp 1t In her nerveless fingers and was
paying it out himself Overhead the flames
burst out with demoniac fury but still that
man from Dakota stood at his post, paving
out that rope.
1t was only wisp of girl, perhaps 10,
Dut lO,OOO eyes were on her. She reached
the ground and fainted-unhurt. A hun.
dred sprang forward; quick hands united
the rope. Swiftly, swiftly the father drew
II up again. In the window he stood with
his agonized.wife, calmly tying it under
her arms, just as he had done before.
Again he paid out the rope, Just as slow
ly. The crowd held its breath.
Other poor souls were coming down their
lines with lightning speed, but Mrs. Wells !
sank as slowly as her daughter. She was
safe. Flames were playing all around now.
Don't jump" shrieked the crowd. Not |
me- lie calmly disappeared, only to reap
pear again with towel in his hands. This
he wrapped across his palms. wound the
rope around his leg and slid off into space.
de reached the ground without a scratch,
while other poor souls who had all his adj
,antages but not his nerve Law diving ON
he curb.
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One OF the most daring rescues of the dav
vas effected by Edward Ford and William
lark of hook and ladder company, 90. At
he risk OF losing their own lives they climb
d from the second to the fourth floor of
he burning building with the aid of scaling
adders and brought three women to the
treet in safety. I
Finding that they could not escape from
heir rooms on the fourth floor of the hotel '
the Fifth avenue side, Mrs. Joseph How {
I'd and her colored servant threw open the S
indow and cried for help. The flames t
ere belching in great livid tongues from t
lie windows below and above them. Es
ape seemed impossible. Through the dense
noke from the street below Clark and
ord saw the two women.
Hurriedly placing an extension laddt,o N ~
'alnst the side of the building with ~,
of comrades, they seized their 40 Sod pau, w
dders and started to the rescue. .Sr q Ieo1 "a
nsion ladder reached only to beme w u, s0 wor
or AS they reached the toSd Wato %"S mo =,
d beckoned to them to hurrE az i'o"n' :
ere already devouring ID Yacht club, The
Catching the hook ooAcht club has bTy r The
sing of the window, enc laws of New ~ ddd n'
ark climbed y. -lrpose of using T. nc "00i
ID on the a lake in Chesterfiei1
loved - first list of officers is IIe iauuei
~ ident, John c. KuhlkG Oh 1ne nool
"a Y. Jacobus; comr imbly up and gained
le- vice commodore narrow stone coping