The age-herald., 1899-03-18

of the houses on the opposite side of the street to the hotel were demolished by the failing walls, and the amount of debris piled in the streets will impede travel for several days. The northeast of the hotel continued to burn for a half hour after the walls of the other parts of the building had fallen Firemen continued to play streams upon the flames and also upon all the adjoining buildings, including Miss Gould's residence, which seemed in immi- nent danger of catching fire, but the flames were brought under control before they could reach any of them. There were many thrilling scenes in the hotel during the early stages of the flre. A hall boy discovered the flames while he was pass ing along the fourth floor, Immediately over the rooms occupied by President Me puB 'NoIuINoW L9uqV 'L9qloIq s.H9Iu!N his family. The boy pulled a chain at- tached to the fire alarm, but the chain broke. and then he cried out an alarm of fire and ran to the floor below. The blaze was then licking up everything in the Fifth avenue end of the building, and when the lad got to the floor above the main hall he ran into the American dining room and gave the alarm to the guests there. Only a few persons were in the dining room at the time and they escaped. N.en the boy reached the main floor War ren F. Leland, the proprietor of the hotel, was in the rear of the long hall and there shouted to him that the building was afire. On MT. Leland's instructions the clerks tried to save all the books and papers, and the boy then rushed down the basement stairway and alarmed the women who were at work in the laundry. It is believed that all of them escaped.
 A Daring Rescue
 One of the most daring rescues effected by the firemen occurred on the fifth floor ar ba An man was seen at a window, and two firemen succeeded in reaching the window immedi- ately underneath. One of them climbed to the coping of the window on which she was standing, and then swung the woman clear of the window and landed her safely in the arms of his companion, who, with the as- sistance of several other f1remen, passed her down to the street.
 The first horror occurred just fourteen minutes after the fire broke out. A hand some woman appeared at the window of room on the fourth floor. She held out her arms to the crowd below. Then she raised her hands as If In supplication, and in a moment climbed to the window and leaped. She turned about like a top, and struck the iron railing in front of the hotel. Her body seemed to be impaled there, but 1t fell off and into the area way. She was dead. The woman was identified as Mrs. Amelia Pad docx of Irvington, N. Y.
 One of the most thrilling scenes of the fire at the time when the building was a seething cauldron of flame was the heroic rescue of several women from the upper stories. One had been carried down from the fifth story. Mrs. A. H. Fuller, of Pitts burg, then appeared with her maid at the window of the fourth story. It seemed an age before the ladder was lowered Fire men ran up and with great difficulty brought down Mrs. Fuller and her maid. Just as she was gotten out of the window a middle-aged woman appeared at win dow just north of that at which the ladder was placed. The woman, fearing she would not be rescued, prepared to jump. She was warned to keep back. and became panic stricken and stepped back into the dense smoke. A hook and ladder manA seeing the