Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
ssEARcHxF0R THE DEAD.
WOrlkmen Digging Over Ruins OF
Windsor HOtel-NO Bodies Found
-Precautions Against Theft.

Worlkmen Digging Over Ruins OF
7 Windsor Hotel-No Bodies Found
-Precautions Against Theft.
New York, March 20.-The latest es-
innate with reference to the Windsor
hotel fire places the number of dead at
16; injured, 81; missing, As. The figures
cannot be accurate until heroic fire
men and police, supplemented by the,
wrecking companies, have dug into the
mass that now blocks the streets
around the ruined building. The value
of the hotel, furniture, ETC., is placed at
81, ESQ, 900; insurance, $s90,0OO. No esti-
mate can be made of the precious metal
and gems which have withstood the
| flames and lie hidden in the embers and
wreckage of the great hotel. One FAM
lily lost jewelry valued at 100000, and
the total will run up somewhere near
a million. How much has been picked
up and carried away can never be
| known, nor can all ever be recovered.
Mrs. Nancy Kirk, who lost her life, and
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins,
had the family jewels, valued at more
than 100000, with them. There were
scores of other, wealthy families who
lived in the hotel and who lost jewels
worth thousands of dollars. e..
Just before midnight two sections of
the rear or eastern wall of the hotel
fell in wit tn a mighty crash. Fortunate
| ~ no one was near and the collapse
was more beneficial than otherwise.
The workmen on the job are each
| given a red card, and without this they
| are permitted neither to enter nor to
leave the lines. This, is an additional
precaution against theft and to keep
any professional thieves out of the for
| hidden precincts. Each man is supplied
with q brass check upon which is his
number. While atwork he is not known
| as "John JONES'" but as "No. As" or
whatever. the card may call for. While
this check is attached to man he may
not leave the lines. The 400 men who
had worked for eight hours were al
lowed to stop at midnight and their
places were taken by as many more.
AS the midnight shift had progressed
pretty well into the ruins and had ex-
cavated to where much of the missing
| wealth might be found. extra precau-
tlonsswere taken as they came off the
job. Each man was taken into a. shanty
near by, where he was submitted to
critical search by detectives from the
building department and regular po-
liceman. It took more than an hour to
go through the clothing of the 400 la
borers, and those last in line grumb1ed
considerably at the enforced delay.
! Mrs. A. S. Jarvis reported. to the po-
lice that she had Lived in the hotel for
three years. She said she lost Jewels
worth $4,000. She had them in ,bu-
reau drawer. Her room was on the
orty-seventh street side. fourth floor.
1 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 valua bles declared
that thieves had set the big hotel on
fire tor. the purpose of creating panic
and looting the rooms. The police are
investigating these stories and are
questioning four men now under ar
rest. Frank Kane, arrested near the
Windsor hotel Friday afternoon while
the fire was raging, was held on
charge of robbery. = Kane's pockets
were bullying and he carried a bundle
when arrested. At police headquarters
the bundle was opened. Inside were
found valuable silk skirts and waists.
sealskin sacks and furs. There were
also pins with diamonds and emeralds
and rubies, chatelaine watches and ear
rings and other articles of adornment.
The whole amount Of property was val
ued at from $4,000 to $4,000. Among
the articles were silver cardcase and
a pocketbook belonging to AbnerS Nc
Kinley. 80 E+1'E .s5<' -
New York, March 2O!-In drizzling
rain more than 200 men continued Sun
day to work among the debris and smol-
dering ruins of the Windsor hotel
searching for the bodies of those who
persisted in the flames and to recover
any valuables that might have escaped
the ravages of the fire. The efforts of
the searchers were futile, however, as
the ruins were too hot to permit much
progress, and the smoke arising from
the burning material was rendered
more dense by the dampness of the at
mosphere. At intervals during the
night flames burst forth from the burn
ing embers and drove back the work
men. Work was begun Sunday morn
ing to demolish the fragmentary por-
lions of walls on the east and north
sides of the burned building, and later
the number. Of workers was reinforced
and the work of removing the rubbish
/ pushed as vigorously as was practi-
cable. The chimney, IS feet high, stand
ing on the Forty-sixth street side of
the ruins near. Fifth avenue, was
blown up. Thirty pounds of dyna-