The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-18
IA HOTEL
/ HOLOCAUST
A Terrible Conilagration at the
e. Windsor, in New York.
w IN
PROBABLY A SCORE DEAD.
While the List Of Wounded Will
/. Reach Half a Hundred.
MANY JUMPED TO THEIR DEATH.


MANY JUMPED TO THEIR DEATH.
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Among the Dead Are the Wife and Daugh.
ter Of Proprietor Leland--The Fire Was
Discovered as the St. Patrick's Day Pa.
rade Was Passing tho Hotel, and Every
Window Was Filled With Spectators.
Thrilling Rescues by tho Firemen Viewed
by Thousands Of Spectators The Fam
lily of Abner Mckinley, Brother of the
President, Escape Safely, But Lose All
Their Personal Property in Their Rooms.
:, New York, March 18.-Flames which
originated from the igniting of a lace
curtain burst forth from the second
> ftoor of the Windsor hotel, at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue, short.
ly after 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
Just as the st. Patrick's day parade
was passing the building, and in few
moments they had leaped up to the
roof and enveloped the entire Fifth
avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts
Of the hotel. Ten minutes later the
flames were roaring through the in
terror of the hotel, and all means
of escape by means of stairways and
elevators were cut off, and there was
the widest scene of excitement within
and without the building.
Hundreds of guests and employees
were in the hotel when the fire broke
out, and for many of them escape with
safety was impossible. Probably from
ten to fifteen lives were lost within a
half hour, and 30 or 40 other persons
were injured in jumping from win
dows and in rushing through the roar
ing flames in the corridors and on the
stairways. Many who were injured
died later at nearby residences and at
hospitals, and others who made wild
leaps to the stone sidewalk were SO
badly injured that they are still hover
ing between life and death. 1t may be
"a hours or more before the complete
list of fatalities may become known,
and 1t will be longer than that before
it can be ascertained definitely how
many charred bodies are in the mass
OF fallen masonry that marks the spot
where the hotel stood. Already 1t is
known that IA are dead, and 1t Is as
serted that there are at least six more
bodies in the ruins.
The Dead and Injured.
The list of dead so far as now known
70 as follows:
Mrs. Elizabeth Leland. wife of War
rem Leland, proprietor of the hotel,
burns Of body, died at Flower hospital;
Helen Leland, daughter Of Warren Le-
land. jumped from window; Mrs.
Amelia Paddock. Irvington, N. Y,
jumped from window; Nancy Ann
Kirk (Mrs. James 8. Kirk. Chicago,
died in Bellevue; Mrs. M. Pierce, Ma
con, Ca. died at 10 East Forty-sixth
street; Miss Laselles Grandy, Eliza
both City, N. c.; Mrs. Addie Gibson,
aged S5, shock, died at Murray Hill
hotel; Elanor Louise Goodman, aged
II, fractured skull. died at Bellevue;
John Connolly, hotel employe, burns
aud internal injuries, died at Flower
hospital; unknown woman, middle
aged, jumped from window, died at
Miss Helen Gould's residence; un-
known woman, body at East Fifty-first
street station; unknown man, about
35,. seen to jump from roof at rear of
hotel, body not recovered; unknown
child thrown from window by mother,
body not recovered; unknown woman,
mother of the child, jumped from win
dow. body not recovered.
/ The following were injured:
: Kate Roache. burns Of face, leg frac-
tured; Polly Noonan, hotel employe,
burns on body; Patrick McNichols,
watchman, burns; James Mcclure,
truckman. left leg fractured, scalp
wound; DR.. Neil McPhatter, ankle
fractured; Kate Flanagan, domestic,
burns of body; Nicholas Mallon, seri-
Gus internal injuries; Mehitable Henry,
probably fatal burns; Mrs. Frank r.
Waldo, burns of body; Mrs. Catherine
Bailey, Chicago, burns of body, not
serious; Miss Helen Brewer, thigh
broken. bad burns of body; Mrs. Won
Spelgle. leg and rib fractured; Mrs.
Catherine Misch. burns of face and
hands, suffering from shock; Mrs. G.
p. Wheeler. shock and burns; Miss
Dorothy Wheeler, shock and burns:
Mrs. William s. Boyce, shock; Edward
Shelton, watchman, probably fatal
burns; John Duke hotel employe,
shoulder dislocated; Warren F. Le-
land, proprietor. Of hotel, head cut;
Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, Chicago,
hysterical; Miss Alice w. Price, of Ma
con; Ga, shock, seriously injured; Mel
lie Thomas, assistant housekeeper,
shock; John Clifford, severe scalp
wounds; Ellen Curran, hotel employe,
burns of body; William F. Love, cash
fer, serious burns; Arthur James, flre-
man, scalp wound; Mrs. Caro- H. CAL
houn, shock; Mrs. c. &. Simmons,
burns of body; Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal,
burns of body; unknown woman, rs,
fractured skull and leg fractured, con-
dition critical; unknown man, hands
and arms burned; Thomas Mcpherson,
burns Of hands and body; Mrs. e. D.
Mrs. 8. II. burlington,
Helen Wssterfeld, Margaret Lawne,
AIRS. Badenburg, Miss Winters, Will