The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-21

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floor, unable to move, and was carried
in safety to the street
Captain Emil III. Pate, Of Company
Il, Forthy- seventh United States vol
unteers, rushed up To the fourth floor
and rescued an old crippled man, who
was partly asphyxiated by the smoke
and burned about the head
Policeman Luke Miley rescued three
women from the fourth floor, and was
badly burned about the hands and
face and his uniform was nearly burn
ed from his back.
A Brooklyn fireman who came over
to see the parade saw a woman on the
seventh story right over where the fire
occurred first. He rushed uD stairs
and rescued Kate Flanagan, a domes-
tic. She was badly burned and injur-
ed by falling debris, and was uncon
scious when brought down.
Thomas Mcpherson, an employe of
the government docks at Brooklyn,
went through the fire n smoke five
stories and rescued Mrs. E.. r.. But
Ter, Who was unconscious from shock
and fright. Mcpherson was so badly
burned that he had to be taken to the
hospital himself.
All Of these rescues and many others
occurred in a period OF a few minutes.
Meantime terrifying scenes were be-
ing enacted by frenZied men n wo-
men on almost every floor of the great
building. How nan persons are buried
in the ruins is not known, but at least
three or four persons were seen to
jump, whose bodies nave not been re-
covered. A young man, apparently an
employee, jumped from the roof on the
Forty-sixth street side of the hotel.
Another unknow man jumped IN the
Fifth avenue side, and two more were
seen to jump from he rear. Shortly
after that two ONE jumped fun
the ROOT to the court yard below. 1t is
known that two Of these at least are
dead. Eyewitness say they saw a
woman throw a child from a window
and fall a moment later herself, just
before the collapse of one of the walls.
AS yet no trace of these bodies has been
found.
J.. Lemott Morgan, of Birmingham,
Ala, who a been watching the pa
rade with a number Of friends from
the balcony, ran to the fourth floor
her daughter Mabel. He took them to
the balcony and thence they were
taken down to the street by firemen.
Abner Mckinley, brother of Presi-
dent Mckinley, had four rooms on the
ground loo of the hotel. Mrs. Is
ley n her daughter Mabel Mckinley,
occupied the rooms with Abner Nc
TNlIllcy. N1lSo LOU VuCIAllllCy d OI-
dered a coach for a drive at $3.50
o'clock and was dressing for it when
the alarm of fire was given. She was
in her dressing gown at h time. She
saw the smoke and, becoming frighten-
ed, opened the window and was assist
ed out by an unknown nan She walk
ed half a block and found her car
riage in waiting. She was driven to
the hotel Buckingham.
Mrc NaKin1ov and her 6qI1Ohfar
Helen Mckinley, were entertaining
Mrs. John Sherwood, the author. Both
Mrs. Mckinley and her daughter and
her guests got out, assisted by two
men, but they do not know how.
DR.. E. Parmelly Brown and A. E.
Brown knowing the McKinley's were
in the hotel, rushed to the place as
soon as they learned Of the fire and
rushed up stairs. AS they were going
up the stairs, they saw two men, n
a fireman and the other an employe,
bringing down Mrs. Warren Leland.
The woman's clothes were burned from
her body. The men told DIR. Brown
that they had found the, woman in the
hallway, lying or the Doh unconscious.
The men said h a they saw one wo-
man leap from the window Of the
room, but they had no time to stop
her. She was Miss Helen Leland,
daughter of Mrs. Leland.
Mr.. Corbett, the chief engineer, said
he met Mr.. Warren Leland who told
him to shut off the electric current in
order to enable the fremen to combat
with less difficulty and danger. While
Mr.. Leland was talking with him, sew
eral women jumped out of the windows
and from the roof and there lay uncon-
scious in the court yard.
Dr.. Robert Stafford Newton, who was
n of the first doctors to arrive said
that many women and men who had
tried to make their exit from the hotel
by the side entrance were driven back
by the tremendous crowd that surged
about the entrance way.
THE PROPERTY LOSS.
ing is almost complete. The salvage
men managed to save $780, 600 worth Of
paintings on the first floor of the hotel
but very little else was carried out.
Many of the guests who lived at he
Windsor regularly lost valuable jewel
ry and ~bric-a-brac and furnishings
among them being F. F. Flower, a
nephew of Ex-Governor Flower, who.
among other things, lost a package Of
jewelry valued at $4,000.
The loss on the hotel is estimated at
at least 1000, 900. Several adjoining
buildings were damaged considerably,
but the loss on these is comparatively
SAAIoAA. AL AN PoP~Ho O0 " ~
the hotel are believed to have been
saved.
Up to about midnight the ruins had
not cooled off sufficiently to allow a
search forbodies. A big force Of men
is now at the ruins ready to make a
seach as soon as possible.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
Regarding the origin of the fire the
Herald tomorrow will publish the fol-
lowing:
John Foy, a waiter in the hotel, was
passing through the hall or the parlor
floor, the first above the street. He was
making his a to a place where he
could catch a moments sight of the pa
rade. In front of him walked a male
patron of the hotel. The waiter did not
know him. Passing thus one behind
the other they had nearly gained the
angle of the passage near Fifth avenue
and Forty-sixth street when the pa
iron drew a match and lighted a cigar
or cigarette. He tossed the match
aside. 1t was blazing, and fell into the
folds of a lace curtain. In an instant
the ffimsy fabric was ablaze, and in
stantly the flames shot to surrounding
draperieSs