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New York, 18th March. yesterday's Windsor Hotel' fire horror.
is impossible adequately to describe Seldom has there been a clearer demonstration of the saying: "Behold how great a fire a little flame kindleth." The \Tapidity with which the hotel, filled with happy people became a blazing hell_was appalling. When the fire broke out Fifth Avvenue was crowded with people watching the St. Patrick's Day parade, and every window in the front of the hotel facing Fifth Avenue was filled with people watching the marching men in the streets. The section of the parade near the hotel
addition to the regular guests the win-was at once halted and disbanded, dows were crowded by s forge number of spectators, residents of this city, who had congregated there to witness the parade. There were many scenes of horror and men and women were seen to leap from death in porement below. There were also many the flames to just as certain a death on the
the firemen was inspiring. ing the origin of the fire the Herald ye tat it rescues and the oe several
was caused by a gentleman guest at the Hotel. The man referred to was passing along one of the hall-ways and lighted a match and applied it to a cigarette. He tossed the match aside while it was still burning, and it fell into the folds of a lace curtain. In a moment the flimsy. fabric the rounding draperies John Ferry, a was ablaze, and instantly the flames shot to
waiter in the hotel, is authority for the story.
At 12.30 this morning a carefully revised list of the missing showed 41 persons unaccounted for. Among these ate the daughters of Warren Leland the well-known hotel proprietor, and owner of the Windsor Hotel; Mrs. Alfred de Cordova, wife of the Wall Street banker and brok-Tinton, Eoghan. Mea. Warton Lalnnd er, and Mr. and Mrs. Shepard Myers, of
is reported as being fatally injured, and Mrs. Kirk, wife of the Chicago millionaire soap-manufacturer, is dead from injuries received in jumping froma window. An unknown man was seen to jump from the roof at the rear of the Hotel, but his body has not been recovered. An unknown child was thrown from a window by its mother, and the body has not been recovered. nor has tha of an unknown woman, the mother of the above child, who jumped from the window.
The most complete list of the casualties shows 14 persons killed and possibly 15, without attempting to speculate on the bodies in the ruins. Forty persons are missing, and 92 names are in the list of injured whose whereabouts sre, unknown, ree fire engines and 100 policemen romained all night about the burning building. These engines poured six large streams of water on the flames which would start up at intervals in spite of the firemen: Little explosions occurred from escaping gas, the pipes having been smashed all over the lower part of the building, the only portion that was left. Citizens were kept a block away from the ruins as pieces of the wall were falling now and then and there was danger that the wall at the back of the building, and that on the 46th street side might fall at any time.
Thos. J. Brady, Commissioner of Buildings, says that not only was the Windsor hotel unfit to be used for hotel pur-but also in the city there' are' at least 'a dozen houses where the patrons take equal risks for their lives, The lesson of the Windsor Hotel fire is well known," said Commissioner Brady, Tt
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