Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-17
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
Windsor Hotel in New York Burned Down
This Afternoon with Terrible Loss Of
Life-Proparty Loss. 81 600, 900,

New York, March 1.-THE Windsor
hotel, at 45th street and 5th avenue, is
in flames, and the fire is spreading with
great rapidity. The building, which oc-
cupies the block facing on 5th avenue,
looks like a roaring furnace. One
| woman jumped from the fifth story to
the pavement on the 5th avenue side,
and people are ON the roofs crying for
help The firemen are doing their best
to reach the people on the roof and in
windows, and are climbing up the ad-
joining buildin~s, throwing ropes, as
there are no long ladders yet on the
scene. So small ladders are being put
into use The police department tele-
graphed Bellevue hospital for all the
ambulances and all the doctors availa-
BILE.
The fire started on the second floor,
and the progress in the large rooms of
the comparatively old building, was
swift, and the draft through the wide
corridors and stairway is fastening the
burning. Fifth avenue was crowded
with st. Patricks day paraders, who
surged around the hotel, so that the
liremen were hampered in their work.
Chief of Police Devery issued call for
all reserves and soon 100 policemen
were hurrying towards the blazing ho-
tel. At 4 o'clock the Windsor hotel col
lapsed, the whole frame falling inward
with crash. The wounded are being
taken away in ambulances to the hos
pitfalls, and number of priests are pres
ent. At Ais there had been found four
persons dead and 12 injured. Among the
latter is Mrs. j. S. Kirk. wife of the
Chicago millionaire, whose injuries are
said to be fatal. Many jumped from the
windows on the 47th street side, oppo-
site the Gould residence. Two guests
were seen at the windows to fall back
into the flames and perish. Two guests
jumped from the fifth story window into
life net and We're saved. A woman
jumped from window on 46th street,
opposite DR.. Shrady's residence and was
picked up unconscious.
Warren Leland is proprietor of the
hotel The fire was discovered at $40
p. M, in the parlor on the second floor.
He rushed to the office and gave the
alarm, and the clerks ran upstairs, but
the flames spread so rapidly that it was
impossible for them to do much.
Policeman James Duan carried three
women down from the third floor.
At $3.50 p. m. Miss Helen Gould sent
word to the police to bring all the in
jured to her home Some were carried
there, but in short time the firemen
ordered Miss Gould and others in the
house to leave. A conservative estimate
places the total loss of life at 25 and
there are 12 to 20 bodies in the ruins.
At 425 p. m. the Gould mansion, occu-
pied by Helen Gould, caught fire.
Among the injured taken to Bellevue
are Mrs. c. C. Simmons, So years old, of
this city; Mrs. Haskell, residence un-
known; two unknown women. The loss
is estimated roughly at $1,OOO,00O.
At 4:55 p m.. among the injured were
Mrs. Bailey, of Chicago, whose leg was
broken and will probably die: Mrs. A.
M. Fuller, of Pittsburg, probably fatally
burned Mrs. Warren Leland, wife of
the proprietor of the hotel, was badly
burned, Mrs. Brewer of New York, suf-
fered broken legs and severe burns
about the body, and Mrs. DR.. Morris
Henry, of New York. was probably ia
tally burned