The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-18

hotel and caused the hundreds of people
who were standing there to scatter in
every direction. This fall weakened the
walls on the Forty-sixth and Forty
seventh street sides and they fell
moment later. When the wall fell the
brick and mortar and the twisted grid
iron and corrugated iron filed the street
on three sides of the hotel. The door
steps and iron fences in front of the
houses on the opposite side of the street
from the hotel were wrecked by the
falling walls and the amount of debris
piled in the streets was so great that
the travel will be impeded for several
days.
THE INJURED.
Kate Roache, burns on face, leg frac-
Polly Noonan. hotel employe, burns on
body.
Patrick McNiccols, watchman, burns
James Mcclure. truckman, left leg
fractured, scalp wound.
DIR. Neil McPhatter. ankle fractured.
Kate Flanagan, domestic, burns on
Nicholas Mallon, internal injuries;
serious.
Mehitable Henry. probably fatal
burns.
Mrs. Frank r. Waldo, burns on body
Mrs. Catherine Bailey, 4634 Greenwood
avenue, Chicago, burns on body; not
serious.
Miss Helen Brewer. thigh broken, bad
burns on body.
Mrs. Won Spiegle, leg and rib frac-
tured.
Mrs. Catherine Misch burns on face
and hands; suffering from shock.
Mrs. @. P. Wheeler, shock and burns.
Miss Dorothy Wheeler, shock and
burns.
Mrs. William Boyce, shock
Edward Shelton, watchman, burns,
probably fatal.
John Duke. hotel empIoye, shoulder
dislocated.
Warren F. Leland, proprietor of the
hotel. head cut.
Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins. Chicago,
hysterical; Bellevue.
Mrs. Alice Price of Georgia, shock;
seriously injured; Bellevue.
Nellie Thomas, assistant bookkeeper,
shock
John Clifford, severe scalp wounds
Ellen Curran, hotel empIoye, burns on
| body.
william F. Love, cashier, burns; con-
| dition serious.
Arthur James, fireman, scalp wound.
Mrs. Caro- H. Calhoun, shock.
| Mrs. G. c. Simmons, burns on body.
Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal, burns on body.
! Unknown woman. 25 years of age
| fractured skull, leg fractured; condition
| critical; Bellevue.
Unknown man, hands and arms
! burned.
| Thomas Mcpherson, burns on hands
| and body; Bellevue.
| Mrs. F. D. Waterman, burns; at No.
| 2 West Forty-second street.
Mrs. S. H. H. burlington, at No. 247
west EOrty-SeVenth street.
| Helen Westerfield, at Dakota fiat.
| Margaret Lawne, Manhattan hotel.
| Mrs. Badenberg.
| Miss Winters, at 7S4 Fifth avenue.
| William Biller, Roosevelt hospital
| Thomas McClucky, at Flower hospital.
Mrs. G. H. Striener, at No. 2 West
| Forty-seventh street.
Miss Rosenheim, at Bellevue.
Bridget Armstrong.
DR.. Kennith E. Kellogg.
| Miss Annie Taylor Morgan.
| Harry w. Lore.
| Mary Angeline.
| Mrs. Frederick Mackay.
RUIN WAS COMPLETE
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 the three sides
| of the building were filled with debris
| from fallen walls and chimneys, while
| the streams of water being poured upon
| the interior of the ruins had no other
| effect than to fill the air with clouds of
| scalding steam, making it impossible
| for anyone to approach near enough to
| search for the bodies of those who per-
| ished.
| The fire was the most spectacular
| that could be imagined. When it broke
! out Fifth avenue was crowded with peo-
| pie watching the st. Patricks day par
| ade and every window in front of the
| hotel facing Fifth avenue was filled
! spectators.
The northeast wing of the hotel con-
I tinued to burn for a half hour after the
| walls of the other part of the buildins
| fell Firemen continued to play streams
| upon the flames and also upon all the
! adjoining buildings. including Miss
Gould's residence, which seemed in i'm
mlnent danger of catching fire, but the
| flames were brought under control be-
| fore they could reach any of them.
STARTS OVER M'KINLEY'S S ROOMS
There were many thrilling scenes in
| the hotel during the early stages OF
| the fire. A hall boy discovered the
| flames while he was passing along the
! fourth floor Immediately over the rooms
| occupied by President McKinley's
| brother, Abner Mckinley, and his fam
! lily. The boy pulled a chain attached
| to the fire alarm, but the chain broke
| and then he cried out an alarm of fire
and ran to the floor below. The blaze
| was then licking up everything on the
| Fifth avenue end of the building, anc
| the lad, when he got to the floor above
! the main hall, ran into the American
! dining room and gave the alarm to the
guests there. Only few persons were
in the dining room at the time and they
escaped. When she boy reached the
main floor, Warren F. Leland, the pro
| prietor of the hotel was in the rear o
the long hall, and the boy shouted t.
him that the building was one fire. Or
Mr.. LeIand's instructions, the clerk:
tried to save all the books and papers
and the boy then rushed down the base
ment stairway and alarmed the womeT
who were at work in the laundry. 1t i:
believed that all of them escaped.
One of the most daring rescues eff
fected by the firemen occurred on tht
fifth floor of the Fifth avenue front.
An elderly woman was seen at a win.
dow and two firemen succeeded il
reaching the window Immediately un.
derneath. One of them climbed to tn,
coping of the window on which she wa!
standing and then swung the woman
| clear of the window and landed he
safely in the arms of his companion
who, with the. assistance of severa
other firemen, passed her safely dowI
to the street.
The first horror occurred just Is min
uteS after the fire broke out. A hand.
| some woman apneared at the vyindn1n n.