The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-22

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breast. The heart had stopped. Death had
apparently been instantaneous.
Her fingers were jeweled with costly
gems and large diamonds glittered in her
ears.
Dr. Cole lifted the limp form to his
shoulders and then climbed up the ladder
10 the street.
A few minutes later the wall fell, and
the spot where the woman's body had
been found was buried under tons OF
brick
Six women were enjoying a Turkish bath
in the Windsor bath and apartment house
at Nos 5, and East Forty-sixth street,
when they were informed that the Wind
scr hotel was on fire. The bath house adj
joints the hotel. and is owned by the
Gerry estate. The three buildings are OF
brown stone, four stories, and were al
tered from private dwellings by George T.
Easton. the present proprietor The low
er part OF the building is used for the
mems bath and the upper floor for women.
Sleeping apartments are on the second and
third floors.
The women were not al all alarmed when
at first the bath house caught fire. and
the bricks and mortar from a falling wall
ratified on the roof. The women did not
wait then 70 put on their clothing. but
fed panic stricken down stairs and soughr
refuge in the first room they found open.
This room belonged to E. j. Nelns. and he
was there. He fed. leaving the terror
stricken women in possession.
The upper floor was in flames bv this
time. and It was impossible 10 recover the
clothing Of the bathers. Enough wearing
apparel was secured 20 supply them. and
they put it on and hurried away.
Mrs. E F. Bayley and her daughter
Helen occupied rooms on the fourth floor.
Their home is in Chicago. They had been
stopping at the Windsor for a week. At
noon yesterda yHe;en left her mother and
went on a visit to friends in Dobbs Ferry.
Shortly after her daughter left Mrs. Bay
ley was seized wit ha violent headache
She became so i'll that she went 10 bed
When the fire started she was doing
Smoke coming in through the cracks in
the door permeated the room and she
awakened
She opened the door leading TO the hall
but the passageway was choked with
| smoke. Then she climbed to the window
and reached the fire escape.
She worked her way down cautiously TO
the second floor, bruising her elbows and
lacerating the palms OF her hands. On
the second floor there was a rope. II had
led someone to safety through the clouds
OF smoke rolling up from beneath her
She grasped the rope and slid for story
and hat. Then she lost her grasp and
fell. But her fall did not seem 10 have
seriously injured her. She tainted and was
carried to the corner drug store Her
daughter was telegraphed for and reached
her mothers side at Roosevelt hospital
last night
MIS-. BaXley is wife OF E. F. Bayley.
OF the law firm o. Bayley & Webster. Chi
cago. She left Chicago a week ago with
her daughter
one OF the most pathetic incidents OF the
hre was death bed parting In Bellevue
hospital OF devoted mother and a low
ing and heroic daughter The mother
Mrs. Nancy A Kirk, feeble with seventy
years,and an invalid, was literally car
ried from the burning house by her
daughter. Mrs. C. G. Haskin, who bore her
burden down the smoke charged staircas-
es from the fourth floor
Leaving her mother TO the care Of two
hremen who carried the aged woman 10
the street, Mrs. Haskin ran back to her
apartment to save some valuables. She
nearly lost her life, for the flames had
spread rapidly. and 1t was with difficulty
that she managed TO find her way through
the halls back TO the lower floor She
reached the street. where she sank half
fainting. Her hair was singed. her cloth
ing scorched and her arms badly burned
She gasped, 'FWhere is mother? Thank
God I got her out alive
The two firemen who had carried Mrs.
Kirk to a pace Of shelter had called an
ambulance surgeon to attend to the aged
woman who. for years a sufferer from
heart disease. had collapsed completely.
Mrs. Kirk was placed in the ambulance
Mrs. Kirk was being placed in the ambu-
lance when her negro nurse, Sarah. who
Hdu dlttnueu HcT iVT years anu was Qe-
voted to her. dashed across the street. She !
too. had had narrow escape from the /
doomed hotel
THAT lady is my good mistress, scream |
ed the girl. Then as the driver was about |
TO drive of she cried I'm go TO the hos !
pital with her"
Without further ceremony she climbed I
into the seat beside him.
Hurry up! Drive! Drive fast" she /
begged.
The driver dashed his horse. The maid /
chung to his arm. Mrs. Haskin followed /
in a cab Her mother. still unconscious. :
was carried at once TO a cot in ward Y. /
Mrs. Haskin. who was suffering intense I
pain from the burns on her arm. would /
not consent TO treatment until she had /
seen her mother.
But all the medical skill lof the hospital
could not save Mrs. Kirk. who even then
Was dying. although the surgeons did not
tell the daughter 50. Hyperdermic injec-
tlons. in the hope that the aged woman'z
heart might be stimulated, were admins
tered. but the smoke and the excitement
had done their work.
A few minutes before she died Mr.. Kirk
regained consciousness. Her daughter
knelt at the bedside and took the mother
in her arms. While thus embraced Mrs.
Kinks gaze rested on the daughters face.
DO you know ne. mother? am Mary.
We are safe. mother. You are getting
good ssre and you ri a iooDehshrd.u
good care and you vii soon be on your
feet again
The mother passed away Tith the
dauznters AIMS around he- necE