A111 New York Hotel Proves a _ 0nd floor of the \Vindsor hotel, , ,ment later. 0111111. Death Trap. MANY GUESTS PERISH. St 1133 Women Leap . Seven to Certain Deon. FIRE-MEN PERFG Ell A Millie FEMS The Number Who Lost Their Lives Still 'Reach :1 Score [Tncerfain—‘Vill Probably or More—7F“ ty Missing and Forty Injured. NEW YORK, March 18. —Flames which originated from the igniting of a lace curtain bulst forth fro-11 the sec- at F01" ty— seventh street and Fifth avenue. shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday after— noon, just as the St. Patrick’s day _ parade was passing the building, and in a few moments they had leaped up to t .c roof and enveloped the entire Fifth a1 cnue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the hotel. Ten minutes later the flames were roaring through the inte- rior of the hotel, and all ways of es— cape ‘by means of stairways and ele— vators were cut off, and there was the Wildest scene ofexcitement within and Without the building. Hundreds of guests and employees were in the hotel. when the fire broke out, and for niany of them escape with safety was impos- sible. From 15 to 20 lives were lost within half an hour, and 30 or ‘10 other persons were injured in jumping from windows and in rushing through the roaring flames in the corridors and on the_stairways. Man who were injured died later at nearby residences and at hospitals, andothers ‘who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalk were so badly injured that they are still hover- ing between life and death. It may be 2.4 hours or more before the complete ,list of fatalities will become 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. be fire was the most spectacular af- fair of the kind that could be imagined. When it broke out, Fifth avenue was crowded with people watching the St. Patrick's day parade, and every win- dow in the front of the hotel facing Fifth avenue was filled with spectators watching the marching men and floats in the-street. The day was all that could be desired, and an unusually large number of people were on the 'streets on that account, a fact which interfered not a little with the move- ments of the firemen and police ' In addition to the regular guests of the hotel the windows were crowded by a large number of spectators, residents of this city, who had congregated there to witness the parade. , Soon after the first alarm was given people on the lower floors of the hotel, ‘those who had easy access to the street and the bar, commenced to pour out of the building in great numbers, but it very soon became apparent that a great majority of the occupants of the hotel were either panic stricken or were un- able to make their way to the ground .floor. Windows were thrown up on ev- ery side of the building, and guests, mostly women, in all stages of terror,‘ made their apperance and commenced to make frantic appeals for assistance to the crowd standing below. As the flames gathered about them they be‘ came more and more terror stricken, and presently several of them stood up- on the narrow ‘window sills and beck- oned to the spectators below that they were about to leap to the street. The men collected upon the sidewalks ready to o‘-.'. for any assistance that they cOuld. and in the meantime a number of wo— men left the window sills and dropped to the st1 ect In most of the cases the efforts to catch them and break their awful fall weer unavailing, for they struck the sidewalk, and in most cases broken limbs were the result. As soon as the firemen could get their scaling ladders into position they climb- ed the sides of the building and entered at every window where there was an unfortunate guest appealing for as- sistance, "and many cases of heroic res- cue were witnessed by the throng in the street. At the corner of Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, directly across from the hotel, is the home of Miss Helen Gould, and at her direction many of the injured were carried there and were treated by physicians and nurses whom she had sent for. In the mean- time the chief of police had telephoned to every hospital in the city asking that assistance be sent to the fire sufferers. Ambulances forced their way through the crowds as quickly as possible, and the injured people who had made the frightful leaps from the hotel windows Were placed in them and removed to the hospitals. Several occupants of the hotel appeared at the windows of the sixth and seventh stories and even on the roof and made their leaps to the street from those points. Very few of them escaped (either instant death or " injuries which resulted in their death a. short time later. -' In the meantime the entire building was being enveloped in flames, which shot out from every Windowand formed a. picture which struck terror to all those who were wit- nesslng it. ~ Within 40 or 45 minutes after the fire first broke out the walls on the Fifth avonue side showed every indication of falling, and presently with an awful ,crash they struck the asphalt covering 'of the street in front of the hotel and caused the hundreds of people who Were standing there to scatter in every di- rection. This weakened the walls on the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh street sides, and they followed a mo- When the walls fell, the bricks and mortar and twisted girders and corrugated iron filled the streets on three sides of the hotel. The doorsteps and iron fences in from of the houscs on the opposite side .of the street from the hotel wen wrecked by . . r the falling walls, and the amount of de. bris piled in the streets was so greal that travel will be impeded for severa days. the hotel during the early stages of the fire. discovered the flames while passing along the fourth floor immediately ove1 the rooms occupied by President Mc- Kinley’s brother, Abner McKinley, and his family. The boy pulled a chain at- tached to the fire alarm, but the chain broke, and then he cried out an alarm bf fire and ran to the floor below. The blaze was then licking up everything on the Fifth avenue end of the building, and the lad, when he got to the flooz above the main hall, ran into the Amer- ican 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. When the boy reach' ed the main floor, Warer n F. Leland. the proprietOA of the hotel, was in the rear of the long hall and ti e boy shout- ed to him that the building was on fire On M1. Leland' s instructions the clerks tried to save all the books and papers ‘ and the boy then rushed down the base- ment stall 1' 33' and alarmed the women who 11 e1e at 11011: in the laundry. It is believed that all of them escaped.- . One of the most daring rescues effect- ed by the firemen occurred on the fifth floor 011 the Fifth avenue front. An elderly woman was seen at a window, and two firemen succeeded in reaching the window immediately underneath One of them climbed to the coping ove1 the window on which he was standing and then stepped over to where the wo- man was waving her hands despairing- ly. He then swung the woman clear 01 the window and landed her safely in the arms of his companion, 11110, with he assistance of several other firemen passed the woman do11 n to the street. The first horror occurred just 15 min- utes after the fire broke out. A hand— some woman appeared at the window of a room on the fourth floor. She held outlier arms to the crowd below. Then she raised her hands as if in supplica- tion and in a moment climbed to the window and leaped. She turned about a like a top and struck the iron railing in front of the hotel. Her body seemed to be impaled there, but it fell off and into the areaway. ' She was dead. The woman was identified as Mrs. Amelia Paddock of Irvington, N. Y. One of the most thrilling scenes of the fire, at a time when the building was a seething caldron of flame, was the he- roic rescue of several women from the upper stories. One had been carried down from the fifth story. Mrs. A. II. Fuller of Pittsburgthen appeared with her maid at a window of the fourth story. It seemed like an age before the ladder was lowered. Firemen 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 a window 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’ that was pouring from the window. It seemed as though she had jumped into the flames below in despair. A hook and ladder man, see-' ing the desperation of the woman, seiz- ed a scaling ladder and went up story after story through the blinding smoke. He climbed to the coping just as the woman reappeared. The fireman seized her by the waist and, holding her tight— ly to the wall of the building, clipped little by little on the coping and passed the fainting woman to another fireman who had braced himself to receive her. There was a dreadful suspense as the fireman drew the woman toward him and finally had her safely on the ladder. A tremendous cheer went up from the crowd. It is almost impossible to obtain a correct list of the dead, but the follow- ing have been'iclentified: Mrs. Eliza— beth Leland, wife of Warren 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 station; Mrs. Amelia Paddock, Irvington, N. Y., jumped from window, body at East Fifty-first street station; Nancy Ann Kirk (Mrs. James S K1§k ), Chicago, died in Bellevue hos- pital, Mrs. M. Pierce, Macon, died at 19 East Forty'— sixth street, Miss La- selles Grandy, Elizabeth City, N. 0.. body at East Fifty-first street station; Mrs. Addie Gibson, aged 35, shock, died at Murray Hill hotel; Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged 17, fractured skull, died in Bellevue hospital; John Connolly, hotel employee, burns and internal in- juries, died at Flower hospital; un- known woman, body at East Fifty-first street station; unknown womaaniddle aged, jumped from window, died at Miss Helen Gould’s residence. Half a hundred persons are reported missing, and probably many of these have perished in the flames. About as many more have been treated at the various hospitals for injuries, some of which are serious and will doubtless prove fatal. Sympathy In London. LONDON, March 18.—The London morning papers publish long dispatches regarding the Windsor hotel fire in New York city, with articles expressing the deepest sympathy. The Bee! Court In Mlssourl. KANSAS CITY, March 18.—The beef- court spent two hours yesterday at the Armour packing plant minutely in- ‘ specting the various stages of the proc- ess through which the meat passed be- fore being canned. 'The killing room was not visited. In the afternoon the taking of testimony was begun at the court headquarters up town. The prin— cipal witnesses examinedwere Manager Miles bf the Armour company, who tes- tified at Washington over a. month ago as to his knbwledge of the meat fur- nished the army; two inspectors from the local office of the bureau of animal industry, L. A. Lennon, member of a prominent stock commission firm, and ex-Congressman Mason Peters of Kan- sas City, Kan. Grand Jury Holds Doucetile. BOSTON, March 18.—William A.‘Dou- ~cette, charged with the embezzlement of $4,000 from the poor funds while acting as an usher in St. Cecilia's Catholic church, was held for the grand jury. Reed Goes to Jekyll Island. BRUNSWICK, Ga., March 18.—Hon. Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the house of representatives. passed through this city last night On his way to Jekyll is- land. l ... .... .._, There were many thrilling scenes it As soon as it broke out a hallboy _cently. 1 ,_ 011$ SEES THE ENE. 0111111 EXPECTED 50011 All 11111111 The Present Campaign Very Suc- cessful—Philippine Commissioners 'to Meet and Overtures Ex- pected From Agulnaldo. ‘WASHINGTON, March 18.—There is much reluctance shown at the war de- partment to discuss a cable dispatch from General Otis which is regarded ls most important by those who read it, as indicating that hostilities might cease very suddenly in the Philippines and a collapse of the insurrection come at any time. The reasons for the be- lief of General Otis that a climax might come at any hour are not stated, but his assumption is based .on the fa- vorable reports he hasreceived from various sources that the Filipinos are tired of the war and Aguinaldo’s lead— ership. It is believed at the war de- partment that the manner in which the Americans have conducted the. fight— ing has done much to convince the Fili- pinos of the folly of trying" to drive out the United States forces The fight- ing has been of different cha ractcr from that to which they were accustomed. when the Spaniards were in possession of Manila. The officials of the‘department will not make this message public, as they do not desire that the public shall ex- pect a- cessation so quickly. General Otis cabled at length on the existing conditions and stated that al— ready there were evidences of weakness among the rebels. The campaign about Manila, he stated, had been successful beyond the most sanguine expectations. The rebels had suffered heavy losses in each engagement and were becoming discouraged at their inability to defeat the Americans. He has cut their army squarely in half and has captured an immense quantity of munitions of war and oth- er supplies. . The Philippine commissioners, con- sisting of Messrs. Schurman, Denby and Worcester, will meet at Manila 'to— day, when Aguinaldo will make over— tures’for peace." No overtures will be considered which do not provide for the unconditional su1 render and the turning in of all arms and the acknowledgment of the mili- taryg overnment of the United States. General Otis’ cable has caused a great deal of gratification. It Was sen’tr to the president at Thomasville, Ga "The preparations that have been under way to send further troops and. supplies to the Philippifies have not been curtailed,- however. The light ,batteries which General Otis requested in the cable of Thursday night will be sent, as they may be useful in future operations and in case of disturbances iri distant parts of the island. Insurgents Attack Anlericans. MANILA, March 18.—The insurgents to the north of the city advanced from their trenches late yesterday afternoon and attacked General MacArthur’s cen- ter. The Utah battery, Third artillery and Pennsylvania regiment replied and drove the enemy back. Lieutenant John Thompson and Pri- vates John McVay and Alexander Mc- Canse, all of the Pennsylvania regi- ment, were wounded. A Filipino soldier who has been cap— tured by the Americans says that the rebel forces immediately to the north of Manila number 4,000 men. The main army, comprising 10,000 troops, is con- centrated at Malolos, the insurgent cap- ital. ' The insurgents have reoccupied the site of the village of Taytay, northeast of Laguna de Bay, from Which they were driven yesterday by four compa- nies of the Twentieth regular infantry. The village was burned after its cap- ture yesterday, and the American troops then returned to Pasig. The reb- els therefore had no difficulty in again taking possession of the place. General Anderson Coming Home. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Under or- ders from the war department General Anderson, now in commandof the First division of the Eighth army corps in the Philippines, will return to the Unit- ed States probably on the next trans- port to leave Manila and will be as- signed to the command of one of the military departments in this country, in all probability the department of the Columbia, with headquarters at__ Van- couver, Wash. ' Quesadw In a New Role. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Senor Quesada was at the war department yesterday seeking to save from confis‘ cation 150 cans of tobacco which had been imported into Havana without paying duty just before the Spanish yielded sovereignty. It is now held by the United States authorities, and it is expected that the consignment will be sold as smuggled goods. Will Explore the Anlazon Country. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Secretary Long has cabled orders to Captain Todd of the Wilmington, now at Para, Brazil, to go up the river Amazon ‘as far as the vessel can proceed. probably about 1.500 miles: make a thorough study of this. comparatively unknown country and. gather' specimens of the fauna for the United States National museum here. Coal Company to Resume Work .SI—IAMOKIN, Pa.. March- 18. —Notice[’ has been posted by the Excelsior Coal I company that work will be resumed next Monday. The mines'have been idle since last December owing to part of the breaker being blown down by a hurricane. The resumption will give employment to 500 men and boys. Missionary Secretary Dead. BOSTON, March 18.—The Boston of- fice of the American Missionary 3,550- ciation received a. telegram yesterday announcing the death at Newark, N. J,‘, of Rev. Michael E. Strieby, D. D., for the past 35 years secretary of the so- ciety. Dr. Strieby was more than 80 years of age. To Increase Hours of Work. GENEVA, N. Y., March 18.~The Vance Boiler"works, beginning Monday next, will ,run their works night and day. The concern will also double' its force of employees. This is due to the large number of contracts closed re-‘ 1111111 . Eczema on Leg from Knee to Toe. No Best Do or Night. Doctor’s Selves, etc., ould Not Cure. CUTI- ’ CUBA Remedies Cured My husband’s legs, from knee to toes; were . itching with Eczema. He had‘no rest day or night, and would scratch so his legs would be raw. ’Hehad'a good'many doctors, who gnye him about a peck 'of bottles, salve and other things to rub on, but'none did him any good. I told him to try CUTICURA remedies. He went that instant and got Currcum Son, Cartoons _ (ointment), and, CUTICUBA RESOLVENT. That night he tested well, and kept getting better until lid was cured.M1-s. H. J snxms, Middleboro, Ky. lssrANr Bums!- AND Sum)! 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