Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
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standing Of the hotel.
Warren F. Leland, the proprietor OF
the Windsor, had somewhat recovered
to-day, but was still in feeble condi-
ton. He is as yet unable to account
for the origin of the fire.
1t was learned to-day hat Eldridge
L. Gerry had the building and the
furniture that belonged to the hotel
fully insured, even the annual rental,
for which he Unidentified himself with
policies a~ggregating $4,000. Mr.. Ger
ry carried policies a~ggregating $4,000
on he building and had insurance for
100000 on the furnishings. In addi-
ton to this, Mr.. Leland had policies
a~ggregating 500, 900 on bis own furni-
ture in the hotel. Most of the policies
that covered the hotel were written
with corporations that have their main
offices in other States than New York.
No estimate can be made Of the pre-
cious metal and gems which have with
stood the flames and lie hidden in the
embers and w~reckage of the great
hotel. One family lost jewelry val
ued at 5000, 900, and the total will run
up somewhere near a million. How
much has been picked up and carried
away can never be known, nor can all
OF it be recovered.
Mrs. Nancy Kirk, who lost her life,
and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Kirk Has
kins, had the family jewels, valued at
more than 5000, 900, with them. There
were scores of other wealthy families
who lived in the hotel and who lost
jewels worth thousands of dollars.
Warren Leland, Jr., said tonight
that he had given up Frederick Leland,
the room clerk of the hotel, and his
cousin. The bodies of Mrs. Leland
and Miss Helen Leland will be taken
to Chicago tomorrow for lnterment.
The body of Mrs. Nancy Ann Kirk
was taken to Chicago tonight on a
special car on the Pennsylvania rail
road. Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, her
daughter, accompanied the body.
Mrs. Catherine Bailey, of Chicago,
was reported tonight to be improving
and there is not much fear of grave re-
suits.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Fuller, of Phil
adelphia and Pittsburg, who we're Ia
ken to the Manhattan Hotel, were so
improved tonight that the physicians
said they were out of danger.
J. H. Sullivan, the electrician of the
hotel, said there was nothing wrong
with the fire apparatus. He said that
as soon as they knew there was a fire,
the fire pumps were started and work.
ed perfectly.
Some of the bodies in the ruins may
be recovered by Monday or Tuesday.
1t will take a week to get at some of
them, however. and perhaps it will
take twice that long to get at those in
the cellar,
Every preparation has been made for
the handling of the bodies. Wagons
with stretchers will be inside the lines,
and the coroner will take charge of
the bodies at once.
Warren Leland, Jr., said:
There were about $50 persons en-
ployed in the hotel, as near as | can
judge. The list of the help is locked
up in the office safe, which is some
where in the ruins, and it will be prob
ably several days before it can be got
ten. l am afraid that many of the help
persisted. We will know who they are
in the course of a few weeks if the safe
is all right, for after We get the list we
can assume that all who are alive will
come around to collect their wages. |
think that most of the help would be
on the lower floor at that hour of the
day and that all of those who were
downstairs got out safely"
Edward Killen, a milkman, said to-
day that he had discovered the fire.
He was watching the st. Patrick Day
parade when he saw a curtain take fire.
He ran into the hotel and tried to
send in an alarm by means of the no.
tel automatic box. but it would not
work. Then he ran into the street,
sending in an alarm there, and return
ed to the hotel. He said that a corpo-
raj and a private of the Aston Battery
ran in with him. They found the fire
burning up through the air shaft. He
and the other two men got down the
hotel fire hose and played streams on
the main stairway, which had caught
fire, and which they saturated with wa
ter. Their efforts were unavailing and
they had to give it up when the flames
came up to them.
Bicycle policeman Liebold says he
rescued four persons from the fire. He
got four men OIL from one of the lower
floors and carried a fifth man down on
his shoulders. He heard a oma on
the fifth floor, but though he tried to
get to her he was unable to do so, and
he had to hurry out of the burning
building.
The home of Helen Gould, on the
northeast corner of Forty-seventh
street, was surrounded by a Gordon of
police all night and morning, while
detectives guarded the interior. A
policeman accompanied every person
who entered the house. Beyond a few
windows being broken, the house was
scarcely damaged at all, except very
slightly on top, where the fire caught
yesterday. The interior was in great
confusion. All bodies and all the
wounded had been taken away Miss
Gould and her brother Frank slept in
the house all night.
The surviving daughter of Warren
Leland. Fanny, remains at the resi-
dence of eX-Gov. Flower. She is pros
trated by the calamity that has fallen
on the family. Warren G. Leland, Jr.,
stated emphatically this morning that
though his father is Frustrated with
grief, he is not at all insane, as had
been reported. He is grief-stricken,
but sane as he ever was said young
Leland.
A. A. Minis. of this city, said he
went to the hotel yesterday afternoon
at 8 O'Clock. He went up in the ele-
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