The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-03-25
NEW YORK HOTEL FIRE.
Many Guests Meet Death il
the Flames.
THF WINDSOR BURNED
Mammo 9th Structure Quickly Becomes
Roaring Furnace and is
Consumed.

Windsor hotel SHOWS tnat fourteen per
sons were killed and possibly fifteen, with
out attempting to speculate on the bod
les in the ruins. Forty persons are miss
ing Fifty-two names are in the list of
injured, whose whereabouts are known.
Revised list of dead:
CONNOLLY, JOHN. employe Of hotel.
GIBSON. MRS. ADDIE. aged 50. Cincin-
natl. o., shock, died at Murray Hill hotel
GOODMAN, ELEANOR LOUISE. aged
city. died at Bellevue hospital.
GRANDY. MISS LAZELI.E, of Elizabeth
City. \; C., here on a shopping tour, burned
HENRY, MRS. MAURICE, of this. city.
who died at Roosevelt hospital at 9 o clock
this morning from burns and injuries.
KIRK. NANNY ANN, wife of J. :: Kirk.
soap manufacturer of Chicago, died at
LELAND. MRS. WARREN, wife Of the
LEIASD. MISS HELEN. daughter of the
hG3s G5SnFsto, fgnna d sssd o, Irving
ton; \: y, died ar the fire.
SULLIVAN, MARY, died at Bellevue hos
'' GSiKNoWN Man, who jumped from roof
USKNowS WOMAN, who jumped from
4 Fifth avenue window, died at Helen
UNKNOWN CHILD. thrown from win
dow by mother.
above mentioned, jumped from hotel win
dow.
UNKNOWN WOMAN. jumped from win
dow. died at 10 East Forty sixth street.
A Curtain Caught Fire.
Edward Killen. milkman, said today
that he had discovered the fire. He was
watching the st. Patrick's day parade
when he saw Il curtain take fire. He ran
into the hotel and tried to send in an
alarm by means of the hotel automatic
box. but it would not work. Then he
ran into the street, sending in an alarm
! there. and returned to the hotel. He
said that corporal and a private of the
Astor battery ran in with him. They
found the fire burning up through the air
shaft. He and the other two men got
down the hotel fire hose and played
streams on the main stairway, which had
caught fire and which they saturated
with water. Their efforts Were unavail-
ing and they had 10 give it up when
| the iiames came up To them.
BY this time Policeman Charles Lie
bold said he rescued five persons from
the fire. He got four men out from
one of the lower floors and carried "A
| NTH man down on his shoulders. He
heard a woman on the fifth floor, but
though he tried to get her he was unable
|" DO so, and he had to hurry out of the
I
'Tould Mansion Not Badly Damaged.
The home of Helen Gould on the north
west corner of Forty seventh street. was
surrounded by Gordon of police all
night and morning, while detectives
guarded the interior
\ policeman accompanied every person
who entered the house. Beyond few
windows being broken. the house was
scarcely damaged at all, except slightly
on top where the fire caught yesterday
The interior was in great confusion.
Stole Abner's Jewels.
Detective Scrgcants Cuss and McDuff
who We're Oh duty at the fire Yesterday
arralgn"d today in police court man
who gave his name as Frank Kane, and
whom they accused OF trying to make
OF with JeWelry belonging TO Abner Nc
kinley valued from $4,000 to $4,000.
Kane was arrested while the fire was ill
progress. Mr.. Cordova. the stock brok-
or, places his loss at $4,000.
Joseph Hogan. laborer, had his leg
crushed by piece of falling wall today
The accident was, seen by Miss Gould
who had Hogan brought to her house
whore she and her brother Frank attend
ed TO him. Mrs. s. W. Boyce of Cleve-
land, o.. who last night was taken to
the Presbyterian hospital, was we'll
enough today to leave for her home.
New tlh- hdTti Il ne Inlrl hbtN
taken out of the ruins of the Windsor
hotel was recovered early today. 1t was
found on the Forty-siXth street side Of
the ruins. about fifteen feet below the
surface and ten feet from the sidewalk
| The body was that of Il woman. Only
that part of the head from the jaw down
was still Oh the neck. The body was
very badly mangled.
y number of pieces of bodies were
found during the night-bones charred
ana broken and separated from one an
other, some with pieces of burned flesh
on them. Early this morning workmen
digging on the Fifth avenue side near
the entrance. where the first traces OF
bodies We're found, came upon a piece of
pelvlS weighing about two pounds. Lat
or workman found what seemed to be
the kneecap of 4 child with pieces of the
lolnlng bones. II was dug up on the
forty-Scvcnth street side 4 pile Of dam.
aged clothing was found here. In try
ing 10 separate the pieces the work
men found beside clothing what was be
heyed to he mangled and crushed flesh
and bones. The whole mass was put in
cofhnS and taken TO the morgue
Ihe remains of another body We're
found on the Fifth avenue side of the
RUNS. 1t consisted of a mass of chorraI
lnteStines. Besides this mass was thigh
bone, from which all the flesh had been
burned. Near this was another bone, but
It could not he told to what part of the
BODY IT belonged. These parts wcro
found in Il section of the cellar adioiriu,
the entrance. where the remains were
found yesterday.
List of Missing.
The list Of people missing from their
homes Is always large in New York. and
just now a large part of this list is
charged ND to the Windsor bo+eI fro