Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-17
NEW YORK HOTEL HORROR.
The Windsor on Fifth Avenue BUnng-PeOple
are on The Roof Crying for Aid.
Police Telegraph tor Al thc Avaiia.
BILE Anbuianccs 10 he sent
TO the scene.

New York March 1.-THE whole OF
Windsor hotel IL IN flames. II In at
Forty-nfth street and fifth avenue.
The IRE IL spreading with great rapid
ny and the building which takes the
block facing Fifth avenue. looks like
n roaring furnace. one woman jumped
from the nsth story 10 the pavement
ON the Fifth avenue side. People are
on the roof crying for help. The fire.
people on the roof and In the windows.
fircmcn are climbing up adjoining
buildings and throwing ropes, There
are no longer ladders yet ON the scene.
The small ladders are being put Ia use.
The police department have telc-
graphcd 10 Bellevue hospital for all
the available nmbuinncca ana all the
doctors that can at once gO to the
scene. The ambulnnc.a and seven
doctors have gone To the spot at once.
Two emergency hmbuiancos and sew
eral other doctors have been sent for.
The Windsor Hotel firc started ON tho
SECOND floor. then spread rapidly. Tho
PROGRESS % the iirc In the large rooms
~ the comparatively old building was
swift and the draughts In its Wide cor
ridors and Stairways hastencd the
burning.
Firth Avenue was crowded with IT.
patrick'H day parndcrh. They nurgcd
around the hotel aud II was almost Inn
possible To ascertain the number OF
casualties. The iircmcn were hamperrd
IN their work.
chief OF Police Deycry issued call
for all the reserves and son hundreds
OF policemen were hurfying towards
the blazing hotel
Al o'clock the Windsor Hotel COLI
lapsed.
The whole frame fell inward with a
crash The wounded arr being taken
away In ambulancca. They are being
cared Tor Ia hospitals, a number OF
priests arc present rendering their
offices,
AZ l.iO there had been found four
persons dead ana " injured. Among
the latter n Mrs. ]. $. Kirk. wife OF
"a Chicago millionaire. whose Injuries
are said 20 be fatal.
Some OF the Injured were taken to
Bellevue.
Many Jumped from the windows on
the 9Th street side. opposite the Gould
residence,
Two guests were seen 10 stand az the
windows; before they could be- saved
they fell back into the ilamch ana per-
lHhcd,
Two guests jumped from fifth sto-
~ window into n life net ana We're
saved. \ woman Jumped from vim
dow on 18th street, opposite Dr. shra-
dy's residence. She was picked up
unconscious.
Warren Leland In the proprietor OF
the hotel, ~" owned the ocean House
at Newport. which was burned last
October
The fire was discovered In the hotel
at $50 y. M. In a parlor on the second
noor az the southwest corner OF the
hotel. He rushed down into the Office
and gave the alarm, The clerks ran
upstairs. but the ilames spread 80 rapid
~ that II was impossible for them to
do. James Dunn. a policeman, carried
down three women from the third
floor.
1875 p. m.-'rhe Gould mansion. now
occupied by Helen Gould, caught firc.
Among the injured taken To Bellevue
arc Mrs. g. g. simons. % yoara OF age.
OF this city. Mrs. Haskell, residence
unknown. An unknown woman about
q years old. with u fractured skull
and another woman unknown, badly
burned and with a broken leg. The
loss OF tho IRE II estimated roughly at
81 100000. The building N valued at
$3.50 900.