The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-03-23
Hk HORROR N NEV YORK
uaknown Number Of Lives Lost in
the Windsor Hotel.
EoRIY INJURED, MANY FATALLY

FORTY INJURED, MANY FATALLY
NKw YORK, March 20-Little pro
guss was made to-day in removing
ebe debris of the Windsor hotel fire. in
HE effort to discover the bodies that
80 supposed to lie buried there. All
day long over 200 men labored as
a.eh as the misty, muddy, steaming
aass of broken stones, twisted iron
nd crushed brick would admit. A
Heavy, sitting vapor arose continual
=, retarding progress of the workers
nd keeping them for the most part
sWay from the center of the ruins.
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered, and no more deaths from
6iaries received at the fire were re-
ported from the hospitals, but num-
ber of the injured were still in a SER
ipns condition.
The death list remains the same-16
and the list of missing has been re-
6sced to .I-as a number of those pre-
viously unaccounted for reported in
psrson or had been located by friends
NEW YORK, March 1s.-Flames
which originated from the igniting of
. lace curtain burst forth from the
second floor of the Windsor hotel at
Horty-seventh street and Fifth avenue,
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
noon, just as the st. Patrick's day
parade was passing the building. and
IN few seconds they had leaped up to
The roof and enveloped the entire
Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street
fronts of the hotel Ten minutes later
~ flames were roaring through the
bterior of the hotel and all escape by
0sans of stairways and elevators was
1T OF
There was the widest scene of ex-
element within and without the
hiding. Hundreds of guests and
@ployes were in the hotel when the
Ee broke out, and for many of them
sscape with safety was impossible.
Probably from ten to fifteen lives
were lost within half hour, and thirty
- forty persons were injured in jump
ing from windows and in rushing
through the roaring flames in cor
sidors and on the stairways. Many
Who were injured died later in nearby
sssidences and at hospitals, and others
who made wild leaps to the stone side
walks were SO badly injured that they
IRE still lowering between life and
6eaAh.
Il may be twenty-four hours or
Dore before the complete list of fatal
ieies becomes known, and it will be
hnger than that before it can be as
seEtained definitely how many charred
bodSes are in the mass of fallen ma
soory that marks the spot where the
hotel stood.
The Dead.
Leland. Mrs. Elizabeth; wife of War
scn Leland, proprietor of the hotel;
hwns on body; died at Flower hos
yitsl-
Leland, Helen. daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window; body
identified at East Fifty-6rst street sta
tion.
Paddock, Mrs. Amelia, Irvington, N
T.; jumped from window; body at
East Fifty-first street station.
Kirk, Nancy Ann Mrs. James s
Kirk, Chicago; died at Bellevue
Pierce. Mrs. NJ, Macon, Ga. died at
= East Forty-sixth street.
Grandy, Miss Lacelles, Elizabeth
&ty. N. j.; body at East Fifty-first
street station.
Gibson. Mrs. Addie, aged q; died at
Murray Hill hotel.
Goodman. Eleanor Louise. aged Il;
fractured skull, died at Bellevue.
Connolly, John, hotel employee; burns
md internal injuries, died at Flower
hospital.
Unknown woman, middle aged;
mped from window; died at Miss
Helen Gould's residence.
Unknown woman, body at East
Fifty -first street station.
Unknown man, aged IS; seen to
tzmp from roof at rear of hotel; body
nj recovered
Unknown child; thrown from win
DOW by mother; body not recovered
Unknown woman, mother of the
ihsld; jumped from window; body not
Beeovered.
The flames could not be checked,
cd in two hours from the time the
Ire broke out the entire structure was
- ruins and the streets on three sides
IL the building were filed with debris
Aom fallen walls and chimneys, while
H. streams of water being poured
upOn the interior Of the ruins had no
ether effect than to fill the air with
clouds of scaldirg steam, making it
apostolic for anyone to approach
near enough to search for the bodies
= those who persisted.
The fire was the most spectacular
hat could be imagined When it
broke out Fifth avenue was crowded