The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-22

Acldnu, NIB. GilIdDcth, WiiS "a Wa
rem Leland, proprietor Of the hotel,
died at Flower hospital.
Leland, Helen, daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window.
Paddock, Mrs. Amelia, Irvington, N.
Kirk, Nancy Amt Mrs. James S.
kirk, Chicago.
Pierce, Mrs NJ, Macon, Ga.
Grandy, Miss Lascelles, Elizabeth
City, N. c.
Gibson, Mrs. Addie, aged 35.
Goodman, Eleanor Louise, aged II.
Connolly, John, hotel employe.
Two unknown women.
Unknown man seen to jump from
roof at rear of hotel, body not recov-
cred.
Unknown child, thrown from window
by mother, body not recovered.
Unknown woman, mother OF the
child, jumped from window, body not
recovered.
New York, March 1s.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of lace
curtain bursted forth from the Sec
ond floor Of the Windsor hotel at
Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue
shortly after o'clock Friday after
noon, Just as the st. Patrick's day pa
rade was passing the building and in a
few minutes leaped up to the roof and
enveloped the entire front Of the hotel.
Ten minutes later the flames were
roaring through the interior OF the
hotel, and all escape by means OF
stairways and elevators was cut off.
Probably from IS to 20 lives were LOST
within half an hour and 30 to 40 per-
sons were injured in jumping from
windows and in rushing through the
roaring flames in the corridors and on
the stairways. Many who were in
jured died later at nearby residences.
The flames could not be checked and
in two hours from the time the fire
broke out the entire structure was in
ruins and the streets on three sides OF
the building were filled with debris.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people on the lower floors of the hotel,
those who had easy access to the street
and the stairway commenced to pour
ont of the building in great numbers,
but it soon became apparent that
great majority of the occupants of the
hotel were either panic-stricken or
unable to make their way to the
ground floor. Windows were thrown
open on every side of the building and
guests, mostly women, in all stages
of terror, made their appearance and
uttered frantic appeals for assistance.
As the flames gathered about them
they became more and more terror
stricken and presently some of them
stood upon the narrow window-sills
and beckoned to the spectators that
they were about to leap.
Men collected upon the sidewalks
ready TO render any assistance they
could and in the meantime some of the
women dropped to the street. In
most cases the efforts to catch them
and break their fall were unavailing,
for they struck the sidewalk and in
most cases broken limbs were the re-
suit As soon as the firemen could
get their scaling ladders into position
they climbed the sides Of the building
and entered at every window where
there was a guest appealing for as
sistance and many cases of heroic res
cue were witnessed.
In the meantime the entire hotel
building was enveloped in flames
which shot out from every window and
formed a picture which struck terror
to all those who were witnessing it..
Within As minutes after the fire first
broke out the walls on the Fifth ave.
nue. side showed every indication OF
falling and presently with an awful
crash they struck the street in front
of the hotel.
Mrs. Abner Mckinley and her daugh-
ter Helen were entertaining Mrs. John
Sherwood, the authoress. All of them
got out assisted by two men, but they
do not know how. All went to the
Manhattan hotel, where there was a
ioyful reunion of the family. They
lost everything except the clothes they
wore. 9'
How many persons were buried in
the ruins is not known, but at least
three or four persons were seen to
jump whose bodies have not been re-
covered.
The loss is estimated at least $1,000,-
900. Several adjoining buildings were
damaged considerably, but the loss on
these is comparatively small. All the
papers and books of the hotel are be-
iieyed to have been saved.
New York. March 20.-Little progress
was made Sunday in removing the
debris of the Windsor hotel fire in the
effort to discover the bodies that are
supposed to lie there. All day long
over 200 men labored as much as the
misty, muddy, steaming mass OF
broken stones. twisted iron and crushed
brick would admit A sitting yapor
arose continuously, retarding the pro-
press OF the workers and keeping them
for the most part away from the CEN
ter Of the ruins.
Up to midnight no nodies had been
discovered, and no more deaths from
injuries ut the fire were reported from
the hospitals, hut a number of the in
jured were still In serious condition.
The death list remains at 16, and the
list Of missing has been reduced to A.
1t was the NInn Behind the Gun.
New York, March 1s.-Rear Admiral
Sampson has contributed a chapter tc
the book "With Sampson Through the
War" just issued by w. A. Goode, a
press correspondent on the flagship
New York during the war. In this
chapter Admiral Sampson gives the
first expression of his opinion upon the
destruction of Cervera's feet. He holds
that the victory over Cervera is moi
entirely accounted for by the superi.
ority Of the American force, and he j;
inclined to believe that 1t was due
more to excellent Workmanship thar
to anything else.
PIow Makers TO Combine.