The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18


have another daughter Miss Fam
Leland, but she was away from tn
hotel at the time. Mrs. Leland died II
Flower hospital at 9:15 tonight. He
son Charles was the only relative with
her when the end came. He remained
the the bedside for some time after hel
death took place, and then waket
quietly down stairs. There he met hi
father who, with Warren Leland, jr.
a nephew and friend had just come
to the hospital. The old man wa:
greatly agitated.
He said: Charley, my boy, how Is
4 your mother" his voice thick witt
emotion.
Mother is resting quietly, father
/ replied the son, who feared to tell his
father the truth that his mother had
! just died Mr. Leland was then taken
away by his son to the house Of a
friend.
| Frank Corbett, the chief engineer of
| the Windsor hotel, said that he and his
assistant, Robert Walker, and twenty
helpers were in the engine rooms. He
was made aware of the fire by the
cracking of the flames. He rushed into
the court yard in the rear Of the hotel.
He saw flames and smoke coming from
the windows from the second story up
to the roof. There We're a number of
women and men coming down from the
windows by means of ropes; some slid
down a distance and dropped to the
court yard A number of employees who
were on the roof jumped to the court
yard and received fractures and injuries
which he thought would cause their
death. Mr.. Corbett said that there were
three engines and three boilers, under
one hundred pounds pressure each at
the time. As soon rs he discovered the
hotel on fire he rushed down into the
boiler room and turned the steam into
the pumps. Then he rushed up into the
court yard again. There he met Warren
Leland, the proprietor of the hotel. Mr..
Leland told him to shut off the electric
curren in order to enable the firemen to
work with less danger. While Mr.. Le-
land was talking with him several wo-
men jumped out Of the windows and
from the roof and lay unconscious In
the court yard.
DR.. Robert Stafford Newton, who was
one of the first doctors to arrive stated
that it took nearly twenty minutes for
him to get from Madison avenue
through the crowd to Fifth avenue. He
said that many women and men who
had tried to make their exit from the
side entrance were driven back by the
tremendous crowd that surged about the
entrance way.
The loss on the contents of the build
ing is almost complete The salvage
men managed to save $4,000 worth of
paintings on the first floor of the hotel,
but very little else was carried out.
Many of the guests who lived at the
Windsor regularly lost valuable jewelry
and bric-a-brac and furnishings. F. f.
Flower, a nephew of Ex-Governor Ros-
well p. Flower, lost among other things
a package OF jewelry valued at $4,000.
The loss on the hotel is estimated at
least at s1,OoO,0OO. Several adjoining
buildings were damaged considerably,
but the loss on these is comparatively
small There was 5000, ,0oO insurance on
the hotel building and $4,000 on the
contents. A partial list of insurance
follows: Aetna 5000, Phoenix Of
Brooklyn $25,0O0, Connecticut $4,000,
Hanover $500, Imperial $4,000. All
the papers and books of the hotel are
believed to have been saved.
Up to midnight the ruins had not
cooled off sufficiently to allow search
for bodies. A big force of men is now
at the ruins ready to make a search as
soon as possible 1t is believed by
tJat
a number Of bodies in the ruins. The !
list of missing for so many hours after
the fire was over is very large. Doubt
less very many of the missing are COM
fortably housed in the Fifth avenue
homes which were thrown open to the |
sufferers. Doubtless also some of the |
missing will never be found
Windsor hotel guests who are now
registered at other hotels include the
Hotel Manhattan-Mrs. Robert Jami-
son and the Misses Jamson, Miss Ar
buckle, Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck,
Conn.
Park Avenue hotel--W. e. Cooper
Holland house--Mr. and Mrs. Barton
md Miss Barton Providence.
Regarding the origin of the fire, the
Herald tomorrow will say that John
Coy, waiter in the hotel, while pass
ng through the hall on the parlor floor,
he first above the street, saw man,
patron Of the hotel, whom the waiter
lid not know, light a cigar or a cigar
tie and toss the match aside. 1t was
till blazing and fell into the folds of a
ace curtain. In an instant the fabric
vas ablaze and the flames shot to some
draperies.
The Windsor hotel was one of the
most comfortable and attractive hotels
o be found anywhere. 1t was a 'front.'
ge Of 200 feet on Fifth avenue, and
the entire block between East
9Th and 47th streets. The front CEN
er of the building was eight stories
4 height. 1t had also two wings, each
even stories in height and seventy-fiva
aet in length. There were more than
20 rooms in the hotel The building
'as chiefly of brick. 1t was thorough ,
7 equipped for fighting fire, and had
jumps equal in force to six of the
lost powerful fire engines 1t cost ,
bout three-ouarters of million dol
rs to build.
The Windsor's builder and first own ,
:, was John Y. DAILY, and the building I
as first opened as a hotel in Septem- /
er, 1878, !
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