The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-18

! TO see the parade, saw a. woman on the
seventh story, right over where the fire
occurred first. He rushed upstairs and
rescued Kate Flanagan, domestic.
She was badly burned and injured by
falling debris. and was unconscious
when brought down.
! Thomas Mcpherson, an employee Of
/ the government docks in Brooklyn,
went through the fire and smoke of five
! stories and rescued Mrs. r. Butler, who
was unconscious from shock and fright.
Mcpherson was so badly burned that
he had to be taken to the hospital him
self
LEAPED TO THEIR DEATH
All of these rescues and many others
occurred within a period of a few min
utes. Meanwhile terrifying scenes
We're being. enacted by frenzied men
and women on almost every floor of the
great building. How many persons are
buried IN The ruins is not known, but
at least three or four persons were seen
to jump whose bodies have not been
recovered. A young man, apparently
an employee, jumped from the roof on
the Forty-sixth street side of the ho-
tel Another unknown man jumped on
the Fifth avenue side, and two more
were seen to jump from lie rear. Short
ly after that two women jumped from
the roof to the court below.
1t is known that two of these at least
are dead. Eye witnesses say that they
saw woman throw child from win
dow and fall a moment later herself,
just before the collapse of one of the
walls AS yet no trace Of these bodies
have been found.
j. LIE Mott Morgan Of Birmingham,
Ala, who had been watching the pa
rade with number of friends from the
balcony, ran to the fourth floor and
rescued Mrs. Algernon Jarvis and her
daughter, Mabel. He took them TO the
balcony, whence they were taken to the
street by firemen.
ESCAPE OF MKINLEYS.
Abner Mckinley, a brother of Presi-
dent Mckinley, had four rooms on the
ground floor Of the hotel. Mrs. McKin-
ley and her daughter, Mabel Mckinley,
occupied the rooms with Abner Nc
kinley. Miss Mabel Mckinley had or
dered coach for drive at o'clock,
and was dressing for it when the alarm
OF fire Was given. She was in her dress
ing gown at that time. She saw the
smoke, and, becoming frightened, open
ed the window, and was assisted out by
some unknown man. She walked half
a block, and found her carriage in
waiting. She was driven to the Hotel
where she telephoned to
W,
flee at No. 30 Broad street.
Mrs. Mckinley and her daughter,
Helene Mckinley, were entertaining
Mrs. John Sherwood the author. All of
them got out, assisted by two men, they
do not know how. The women became
separated, Mrs Mckinley going to the
residence of Rev. DR.. Morgan at No.
East Forty-ffth street, and Miss Hell
enc Mckinley to the residence of the
ri 81 Uy;f
avenue. Finally all went. to the Man
haitian hotel, where there was joyful
reunion of the family. They lost every
thing except the clothes they wore.
DEATHS OF THE LELANDS.
Two men, one fireman and the other
an employee, carried Mrs Warren Lee
and to the street. The woman's clothes
we're burned from her body. The men
found her in the hallway, lying on the |
door, unconscious. They saw one
woman leap from the window Of the |
'oom, but they had no time to stop her.
She was Miss Helen Leland, daughter |
If Mrs. Leland. This was the saddest |
Incident Of the fire. Warren Leland is |
he proprietor of the Windsor hotel. |
The Lelands have another daughter, |
Miss Fannie Leland, but she was away |
rom the hotel at the time.
Mrs. Leland died in Flower hospital |
1t 9:15 tonight. Her son Charles was
he only relative with her when the
md came. He remained at the bedside
or he time after her death took
'l2 and then walked quietly down
airs. There he met his father, who,
With Warren Leland, jr., a nephew and
friend, had just come to the hospital.
The old gentleman was. greatly agi-
ated.
Charlie, my boy, how is your
nother?' he asked, his voice thick
With emotion.
Mother is resting quietly, father
eplied the son, who feared to tell his
ather the truth, that his mother had
ust died. Mr.. Leland was then taken
way by his son to the house of a
riend.
The loss on the contents of the build
lg is almost complete. The salvage
zen managed to save $4,000 worth of
aintings on the first floor of the ho-
FL, but very little else was carried out J
lany of the guests who lived at the !
windsor lost valuable jewelry and brio !
,brac, among them being F. F.
lower, nephew of Ex-Governor 5
lower, who. among other things, lost
package of jewelry valued at $4,000
The loss on the hotel is estimated at ]
bout S1,000,000. Several adjoining {
ulldlngS were damaged considerably,
ut the loss on these is comparatively
nall. {
Up to midnight the ruins had not t
'oled off sufficiently to allow a search 1
II bodies a big force of men is now
the ruins ready to begin the search
5 soon as possible. 1t is believed by
9TH firemen and police that there are
number of bodies in the ruins. The
st of missing for so many hours after G
le fire was practically over is large.
oubtless many of the missing are
housed in the Fifth avenue
buses, which were thrown open to the
lfferers. Doubtless, also, some of the y