The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-18
Twenty-Five Persons Killed in
Burning Building.
MANY BODIES NOT FOUND.
Injured Cared for by Miss Gould
and Hospitals.

New York, March 17.-Flames, which
originated from the igniting of lace cur
tain, burst forth from the second floor of
i the Windsor Hotel, at Forty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue, shortly after o'clock
had leaped up the roof and enveloped the
entire Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh
street fronts of the hotel
Ten minutes later the flames were roar
ing through the interior of the hotel and
all means of escape by way 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 half hour. and thirty or forty
other persons were injured in jumping
from windows and in rushing through the
flames in the corridors and on the stair
ways
Many, who were injured, died later at
nearby residences or at hospitals, and
others, who made wild leaps to the stone
sidewalks, were so badly injured that they
are stiil lowering between life and.death.
It may be twenty-four hours or more
before the complete list of fatalities be-
comes known, and it 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
The List of Dead.
The dead are:
Leland, Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Warren
Leland, proprietor of the hotel; burns of
body; died at Flower Hospital.
Leland, Helen, daughter of Warren Le-
land, jumped from window; body identi-
hed at East Fifty-first street station.
Paddock, Mrs. Amelia, Irvington, N. Y,
jumped from window; body at East Fifty
first street station.
Kirk Nancy Ann (NIrs. James S. kirk,
Chicago; died in Bellevue.
Pierce, Mrs. NJ, Macon, Ga; died at 10
East Forty-sixth street.
Grandy, Miss Lazelles, Elizabeth City,
n, c.. body at East Fifty-irst street
station.
Gibson, Mrs. Addie, aged S5; shock; died
at Murray Hill Hotel
Goodman, Eleanor Louise, aged II, frac-
'ufed skull; died at Bellevue.
Connolly, John, hotel employe, burns and
Internal injuries; died at Flower Hospi-
tai
Unknown woman. of middle age, jumped
from window; died at Miss Helen Gould's
residence
Unknown woman; body at East Fifty
lrst street station
Unknown man, S5 years old, seen to jump
irom roof at rear of hotel body not re-
covered.
Unknown child, thrown from window by
mother; body not recovered.
Unknown woman, mother of the child
jumped from window; body not recover
ed
Those Who Were Injured.
The injured are:
Roache, Kate, burns of face, leg frac-
'ufed; Bellevue Hospital
Noonan, Polly. hotel employee; burns of
the body.
MeNicholas, Patrick, watchman; burns
Mcclure, James, truckman: left leg frac-
'ured scalp wound
M2Phatter, DR.. Neil, ankle fractured.
flanagan, Kate, domestic; burns of
body
NaIlon, Nicholas, internal injuries, seri-
ous
henry Mehitable, probably fatal burns
waldo, Mrs Frank r., burns of body.
haIley, Mrs. Catherine, 1884 Greenwood
avenue, Chicago; burns of the body; not
serious.
Brewer, Miss Helen, thigh broken, bad
burns of body.
Won speigel, Mrs, leg and rib fractur-
Cd
'''sch' Mrs. Catherine. burns Of face and
'5Ios' suffering from shock.
MheeIer' Mrs. G. p, shock and burns.
Aeeler, Miss Dorothy, shock and burns.
noyee' Mrs. William S., shock.
oAeekelton, Edward, watchman, burns.
Probably fatal.
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