The record-union., 1899-03-18
While Many Charred Bodies May
Yet be in the Ruins.
A Large Number Of People Badly Injured,
Several of Whom Are Still How
ering Between Life
and Death.

which originated from the igniting of a
floor of the Windsor Hotel, at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue,
shortly after o'clock this afternoon,
just as the ST. Patrick's Day parade
was passing the building, and in few
moments they had leaped to the root
and enveloped the entire Fifth avenue
and Forty-seventh streets fronts of the
hotel Ten minutes later the flames
were roaring through the interior or
the hotel, and all escape by means of
stairways and elevators was cut off.
There was the widest scene of ex-
citement within and without the build
ing. Hundreds of guests and employees
We're in the hotel when the fire broke
out, and for many of them escape with
safety was impossible. Probably from
ter. to fifteen lives were lost within a
half hour, and thirty or forty persons
were injured in jumping from windows
and in rushing through the roaring
flames IN the corridors and on the stair
ways Many who We're injured died
later in nearby residences and at hos
pitfalls, and others who made wild leaps
to the stone sidewalk were so badly in
jured that they are still lowering be-
tween life and death 1t may be TWEEN
plete list of fatalities becomes known,
and it will be longer than that before
it can be ascertained definitely how
many charred bodies are in the mass of
where the hotel stood.
THE KNOWN DEAD.
Following are the known dead up to
the present writing:
Mrs. Elizabeth Leland, wife of War
rem Leland, proprietor of the hotel,
burns on body; died at Flower Hospital.
Helen Leland, daughter of Warren
Leland, jumped from window; body
identified at East Fifty-first-street sta
ton.
Mrs. Amelia Paddock, Irvington, n.
Y. jumped from window; died at Miss
Gould house, body at East Fifty first
street station
Mrs James S. Kirk, Chicago, died in
Bellevue.
Mrs NJ. Pierce, Macon, Ca. jumped
from window; died at 10 East Forty
sixth street.
Mrs. Lascelles Grandy, Elizabeth
City. N. c., jumped from window; body
at East Fifty -first-street station.
Mrs. Addie Gibson, aged 80, shock,
fell from one of upper stories; died at
Murray Hill Hotel
Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged II,
fractured skull; died at Bellevue.
John Connolly. hotel employe, burns
and internal injuries; died at Flower
Hospital.
Unknown woman, middle aged,
jumped from window; died at Helen
Gould's residence.
Unknown woman, body at East Fifty
first-street station.
Unknown man, 80, seen to jump from
roof at rear of hotel; body not recov-
cred
Unknown child, thrown from window
by mother; body not recovered.
Unknown woman mother of child,
jumped from window; body not recov-
cred.
THE INJURED.
The following persons were injured,
some perhaps fatally
Kate Roache, burns ON face, leg frac-
tured
Polly Noon, hotel employe, burns on
body.
Patrick McNicolls, watchman, burns
James Mcclure, truckman, left leg
fractured. scalp wound.
DIR. Neil McPhatter, ankle fractured
Kate Flanagan, domestic, burns on
body.
Nicholas Mallon, internal injuries,
serious.
M. Henry, probably fatal burns.
Mrs. Frank r. Waldo, burns on body
Mrs. Catherine Bailey, Chicago. burns
on body, not serious.
Miss Helen Brewer, thigh broken
bad burns on body.
Mrs. Won Speigle. leg and rib frac-
tured
Mrs. Catherine Misch, burns on face
and hands, suffering from shock.
Mrs. G. P. Wheeler, shock and burns
Miss Dorothy Wheeler, shock and
burns.
Mrs. William Boyce, shock.
Edward Skeleton, watchman, burns
probably fatal.