Weather To-Day: THREATENING.
The News and Observer.
VOL. XLVI. NO. 8.
LEADB bii lOIRTIHI CAROLINA DADUEB II IEIS 111 CIRCULATION.
In a Maelstrom of Flame
APPALLING HOLOCAUST AT THE
WINDSOR HO TEL.
Half a Score Dead and Many Injured—Fright
ful Leaps to Doom—Abner
McKinley's Escape.
New York, March 17. —Flames which
originated from the igniting of a lace
curtain burst forth irom the second
iioor of the Windsor hotel at 47th
street and sth Avenue shortly after 3
o’clock this afternoon, and in a few
minutes they had leaped tip to the roof
and enveloped the entire Fifth Avenue
and Forty-seventh street fronts of the j
hotel. Ten minutes later the dames were
roaring through the interior of the hotel,
and all means of escape byway of stair
ways and elevators were cut off. and
there was the wildest scene of excite
ment within and without the building.
Hundreds of guests and employes were
in tin* hotel when the tire broke out, and
for many of them to escape was an im
iMissibility. Probably from ten to fifteen
lives were lost within a half hour, and
»* thirty or forty other persons were in
jured in jumping from windows and in
rushing through the dames in the corri- ,
dors and on the stairways. Many who |
were injured died later at nearby resi
deuces or at hospitals, and others who
made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks
were so badly injured that they are still
hovering between lift* and death. It
may be 24 hours or more before the com
plete list of fatalities becomt*s known and
it wul be longer than that before it can
be ascertained definitely how many
charred bodies art* in the mass of fallen
masonry that marks the spot where the
hotel stood.
xAST OF DEAD.
LELAND, MRS. ELIZABETH, wife
of Warren Lelund, proprietor of the.
hotel; burns of body; died at Flower
Hospital.
LELAXD, HELEN', daughter of War
ren Leland, jumped from window;
body- identified at Tatst Fifty-lirst
street station.
PADDOCK, MBS. AMELIA, Irving
ton. X. Y.. jumped from window; body
at East Fifty-first street station.
KIRK, XANCY ANN (Mrs. James S.
Kirk), Chicago; died in Bellevue.
PIERCE. MBS. M.. Macon. Ga.; died
at 19 East Forty-sixth street.
GBAXDY, MISS I.AZELLES, Eliza- j
both City, N. C M body at East Fifty
first street station.
GIBSON, -mBS. ADDIE, aged 35;
shock; died at Murray Hill Hotel. I
GOODMAN, ELEAXOB LOUISE,
aged 17, fractured skull; died at Belle
vue.
CONNOLLY, JOHN, hotel employe,
burns and internal injuries; died at ,
Flower Hospital.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, middle aged; I
jumped from window; died at Miss
Helen Gould’s residence.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, body at East
S Fifty-first street station.
UNKNOWN MAN, 35, seen to jump
from roof at rear of hotel; body not
recovered.
UNKNOWN CHILD, thrown from
window, by mother; body not recov
ered.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, mother of
child, jumped from window; body not
recovered.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
BOACHE. KATE, burns of face, leg
fractured; Bellevue Hospital.
NOONAN. POLLY, hotel employe;
burns of tfie body,
M’NICIIOLAS. PATRICK, watchman,
burns.
M'GUIBE, JAMES, truckman; left leg
fractured; scalp wound.
M'I"HATTER, I>R. NEIL, ankle frac
tured.
FLANNIGAN, KATE, domestic; burns
of body.
MALLOX, NICHOLAS, internal in
juries, serious. /
IIEXRY, MEHITADLE, probably fatal
burns.
WALDO, MBS. FtRANK K., burns of
body.
BAILEY, MBS. CATHERINE, 4.934
Greenwood avenue, Chicago, burns of
the Im, dv, not serious.
BREWER, MISS HELEN, thigh bro
ken. bad burns of body.
VON SBEIGLE. MBS., leg and rib
fractured.
MISOH, MBS. CATHERINE, burns of
face and hands, suffering from shock.
WHEELER, MBS. E. 1"., shock and
burns.
WHEELER, MISS DOROTHY, shock
and burns.
'BOYCE, MBS. WM. S.. shock.
SKEKHLTON. EDWARD, watchman,
burns, probably fatal.
DI KE. JOHN, hotel employe, shoulder
dislocated.
LELANI). WARREN F., proprietor of
the hotel, head cut.
HASKINS. MBS. MARY KIRK, Chi
cago, hysterical.
PRICE, MISS ALICE, sister of for
mer Governor Price, of Georgia;
shock; seriously injured.
THOMAS NELLIE, assistant house
keeper, shock.
JOHN. severe scalp
CURRAN. ELLEN, hotel, employe
burns of body.
F LOVE. WM. F., cashier, burns; con
dition serious.
JAMES, ARTHUR, fireman; scalp
wound.
CALHOUN. MRS. CARO 11., shock.
SIMMONS, MRS. C. C., bums of body.
ROSENTHAL, MRS. ROSINA. burns
of body.
UN KNOW N WOMAN, aged 25, frac
tured skull; leg fractured; condition
critical.
UNKNOWN MAN, hands and arms
burned.
MPHERSON, THOMAS, hands ami
body burned.
WATERMAN, MRS. E. D.. burns.
PURRINGTON, MRS. S. 11. H.
WESTERFELI >. HELEN.
LA WNE, MA R< lAlll7l’.
BADENBURG, MRS.
WINTERS, MISS.
Bt TLER, WILLIAM.
M’CLUSKY, THOMAS.
STRIENER. JIBS. G. H.
ROSENIIEIN, MISS.
LIST OF THE MISSING.
The following list of missing i , revised
at 12:30 a’clock n. m.:
THOMPSON. GLADYS. 14. daughter
of Eugene Thompson. West 71st street.
BETTS, SADIE, daughter of John
Betts. West 71st street.
ITTIAM. ANNETTA. dnughter of ex-
Senator Fpham, of Vermont.
DEOORDOVA, MRS. ALFRED, wife
of a stock broker, having an office in
the hotel.
BRADLEY. MISS.
STEINER. MISS, New York.
MORGAN. MISS CATHERINE, 448
Madison Avenue.
GFIEN. WARREN, elevator man at
hotel.
AUZE. MISS, visiting at hotel.
M’NULTY. MISS.
BUCK HORN, -MISS 11.. New York.
M’CARTIIY. CATHERINE, domestic.
SHEA. KATE, domestic.
JOSE. MARY, domestic.
Mi CONNELL KATE.
YltUlT. JAMES.
DEMORASCH, MRS.
BRAND. MRS. JAMES.
FULLER, MISS MARGARET, niece
of A. M. Fuller, of Philadelphia.
TROOPS. MISS.
CHAPMAN, MRS. WM. 11.
BUCKLEY. MRS.
WORTH. MISS.
RIGLEY. MISS JENNIE.
CASEY. ELLEN P.
FORD. CHARLES.
WELSH, MARY.
WALSH. NORA.
LAMMY. MARY,
j STOKES. MRS. JAMES H.
MULLEN, CHRISTOPHER.
i McFLOY. MIL, 75 years old. lived at
hotel with his family.
I HOFFMAN. MISS DORA and two
nieces. Baltimore.
KELLEY, ELIZA.
CLARA, MARY.
ARMSTRONG. Bill I >GET.
KELLOGG. DII. KENNITH E.
MORGAN. MISS ANNIE TAYLOR.
LOUIE. HARRY W.
ANGELINA. MARY.
MACK AY, MRS. FREDERICK.
The flames could not Ik* checked, and
in two hours from tin* time that the fire
broke out the entire structure was in
ruins, and the streets on three sides of
the building were filled with debris
from the falling walls and tall chimneys,
while the streams of water being (toured
into the interior of the ruins had no
other effect than to fill Ihe air with
clouds of scalding steam, making it im
possible for any one to approach near
enough to search for missing bodies.
The lire was Ihe most spectacular that
could he imagined. When it broke out
Fifth Avenue was crowded with people
watching the St. Patrick's Day parade,
which was passing the building as the
fire broke out. and every window in the
front of the hotel -acing Fifth avenue
was filled with spectators watching the
marching men and floats in the street.
An unusually large number of people
were on the streets, and interfered no
little with the movements of the firemen
and police.
In addition to tin* regular guests of the
hotel the windows were crowded by a
large number of spectators, residents oT
this city, who had congregated there to
witness the parade.
Soon after the first alarm was given
p-cople in tin* iowicr Hoots of the hotel,
those who had easy access to tin* street
and the stairway, commenced to pour out
of the building in great numbers, but it
very soon became apparent that a great
majority of tit occupants of flu* hotel
were either panic stricken or unable
to make their way to the ground tioor.
Windows were thrown up on every
side of the building, and guests, mostly
women, made frantic appeals for assis
tance to ill i crowd below.
Finally some of them stood upon the
narrow window sills and beckoned to
the spectators that they were about to
leap 'to the streets. The men col
lected upon tin* si dr walks ready to ren
der any assistance they could. Sonic
of the women dropped to the streets.
In most eases the efforts to catch them
and break their fall were unavailing,
and broken limbs were the result. As
soon as the firemen could get their scal
ing ladders into position they elinri d
the sides of the building and enter
ed at every window when* as an unfor
tunate guest appealing for assistance,
land many eases of heroic rescue were
witnessed by the throng in the streets.
.RALEIGH, N. G, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, ISO'.).
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 meantime the chief of police
had telephoned to every hospital in the
city, asking that assistance be* sent to
tin* fire sufferers. Ambulances forced
their way through the crowds as quickly
as possible, and the injured were re
moved to the hospitals. Several occu
pants of the hotitl appeared at the win
dows of the sixth and seventh stories
and even mi tin* roof and leaped to the
streets from those points. Very few
of them escaped either instant death
or injuries which resulted in their death
a short time later.
Within forty or forty-five minutes
after tlu* tire broke out the walls on the
Fifth avenue side showed every indica
tion of falling shortly, and soon with
an awful crash they struck the asphalt
covering of the street in front of :hc
hotel. This fall weakened the walls on
the Forty-Sixth and Forty-Seventh
streets sides, and they followed a mo
ment later. When the walls fell the
bricks and mortar and twisted girders
and corrugated iron filled the streets on
three sides of thci hotel.
The* doorsteps and iron fences in front
of the houses on the 'opi>osite sides of
the street from tin* hotel •were wrecked
by the falling walls, and the amount
of debris piled in the streets was so
great that travel will lx* impeded for
several days. The northeast wing of
the hotel continued to burn for half an
hour after tin* walls of the other part
of the building fell. Firemen continued
to play streams upon the flames and
also upon all tin* adjoining buildings,
including Miss Gould’s residence, which
seemed in imminent danger of catching
fire, hut tin* Humes were brought under
control before they could reach any
of them.
A Ini'll hoy discovered tin* flames while
lit* was passing along the fourth Hoor,
immediately over the rooms occupied by
President McKinley's brother, Abner
McKinley, and Inis family. The boy
1 Hilled a chain attached to the fire alarm,
hut the chain broke, and then he or
dered out ttiu alarm of 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 floor above the main hall,
ran into tin* American dining room anil
gave the alarm to the guests there.
Only a few persons were in the dining
room at the time, and they escaped.
Wlkiii the !>oy reached the main Hour
Warren F. Leland. the proprietor of the
hotel, was in the rear of the long hall,
and the boy shouted to him that the
building was on fire. On Mr. Leland*.?
instructions flu* clerks tried to save r.il
the 'books and papers. The l>oy 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.
One of the most daring rescues ef
fected by the firemen occurred on the
fifth Hoor on the Fifth avenue front. An
elderly woman was seen at a wondow,
and two firemen succeeded in reading
the window immediately underneath.
One of these climbed to the coping of
tlx* window on which she was standing
and then stepped over to the woman. He
swung her clear of the windows and
landed her safely in the arms of his
companion, who. with the asistance of
several firemen, passed the woman down
to the street.
The first horror occurred just fifteen
minutes aftei the fir* broke out. A
handsome woman appeared at the win
dow of a room on. the fourth floor. Stic
held out her arms to ;ix> crowd below.
Then *ie raised lew hands as if in sup
plication, and hi a moment climbed to
the window and teapot; She turned
about like a top, and struck tlx* iron
railing in front of the hotel. Hu* body
seemed to be ioma'ed there, but it
fell off and into the area way. Six*
was dead. The woman was identified
as Mrs. Amelia Paddock, of Irvington,
X. Y.
One of the most thrilling scenes of me
fire—at a time when the building was a
seething cauldron of flame- was ilm
heroic rescue of several women from ill .*
upper stories. One had been carried
clown from the fifth story. Mrs. A. 11.
Fuller, of Pittsburg, then appeared with
her maid at the 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 tlx*
window just north of that at which the
ladder was placed. The woman, fear
ing she would not he rescued, prepared
to jump. She was warned to keep back
and became panic-stricken and stepped
back into tlx* dense smoke.
A hook and ladder man, seeing the
desperation of the woman, seized a
scaling ladder and went up story after
story through tlx* blinding smoke. He
c limbed to the coping just as the woman
reapiieaml. The fireman seized her
by tm* waist, and. holding her tightly
to the wall of the building, crept slow
ly 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 firemen
drew the woman toward him and finally
had her safe on the ladder. A tremen
dous cheer went up from the crowd.
Fireman John Hanna, of the fire boat
Zephar Mills, rushed through the smoke
to toe top floor and found Night Watch
man Mac Nicholas half asphyxiated.
Hanna lowered him by means of wire
to the fire escape two stories below and
let himself down the same way. His
hands were badly cut by the wire.
Then Hanna assisted tlx* old man down
the tire escape.
Captain Emil 11. Pate, u Company L.
Forty-seventh United Slaves volunteers,
rushed up to the fourth floor, and res
cued an old crippled man. who was part
| ly asphyxiated by the smoke and burned
I about the head.
| Policeman Luke Miley. rescued three
women from the fourth floor, aud was
badly hurtled about the hands and face,
and his uniform was nearly burned from
his hack.
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 up stairs and
rescued Kate* Flaimigan, a domestic.
She was badly burned and injured by
falling debris, and was unconscious when
brought down.
Thomas McPherson, an employ 3 of the
Government docks at Brooklyn, went
through tlx* fire and smoke five stories
and rescued Mrs. It. Butler, who was
unconscious from shock and fright.
McPherson was so badly burned that
he had to Ik* taken to the hospital hini
sel f.
All of these aud many oilier incidents
occurred in a period of a few miuuces.
Meanwhile terrifying scenes were
being enacted by frenzied men and wo
men on almost every tlodr of the great
building. I low many persons are buried
in the ruins is not known, but at leas
three or four persons were seen s o jump,
whose bodies have not i»ee 1 recovered.
A young man, apparently an employe
jumped from the roof on Forty-sixth
street side of the hotel. Another un
known man jumped on the Fifth avenue
side, and two more were seen to jump
from the rear.
Shortly after that two women jumped
from the room to the court van! below,
it is known that two of these at least
are dead. Eye witnesses s.:y they saw
a woman throw a child from a window
and fall a moment later hers'lf, just be
fore the eollapse. As yet no trace of
these bodies has been so uni.
J. Lcmott Morgan, of Birmingham,
Ala., who has been watching the parade
with a number of friends from tlx* bal
cony. ran to the fourth floor and r.*scueil
Mrs. Algernon Jarvis and her daughter
Mabel. He took them to the balcony,
and thence they were taken to the street
by firemen.
Abner McKinley, brother of President
McKinley, had four rooms on tlx* ground
floor of the hotel. Mrs. McKinley ami
her daughter Mabel McKinley, occupied
tix* rooms with Abner McKinley. Miss
Mabel McKinley hail ord-ved a coach
for a drive at 3:30 o'clock, and was
dressing for it when the alarm of fire
was given. Six* saw tlx* smoke and. be
coming frightened, opened the window
and was assisted out by an unknown
man. She walked half a block and
found her carriage in waiting. She was
driven to the Hotel Buckingham.
Fireman William Kennedy, of Engine
Company No. 23, rescued a Mrs. Braun,
from the fourth floor of the hotel by
means of a scaling ladder. Her rescue
was -cheered by the immense crowd.
A crippled woman was found tying on
the floor of a room on the fourth floor,
unable to move, and was carried safely
to the street.
Mrs. McKinley and her daughter,
Helen McKinley, were entertaining Mrs.
John Sherwood, tlx* author. Bril Mrs.
McKinley and daughter and her guests
got out assisted by two nun. nut they
do not know how.
The McKinleys went to the Manhat
tan Hotel, where there was a joyful re
union of the family. They lost every
thing except the clothes they wor .
Dr. E. I’armelly Brown, of 509 Fifth
Avenue, and.A. E. Brown, of Congress
Heights, Washington, knowing the Mc-
Kinleys were m the hotel, rusheu to
the place as soot, as they learned of tlm
fire and rushed up stairs. As they were
going up the s'.iirs. they saw two men,
one a fireman and tlx* other an employe,
bringing down Mis. Warren Leland.
The woman’s clothes were burned from
her body.
The men told Dr. Brown that they
found the woman in the hallway, lying
on the floor unconscious. The men said
that they saw one woman leap from
the window of the room, but they had
no time to stop her. She was Miss
Helen Leland, daughter of Mrs. Ice
land.
This was the saddest incident of the
fire. Warren Leland is the proprietor
of the hotel. The Leluuds have anoth
er daughter, Miss Fanny Leland, but
she was away from the hotel at the
time.
Mrs. Lelaixl died in Flower Hospital
at 9:15 tonight. Her son Charles was
the only relative with her when the
end came.
Frederick Corbett, the chief engineer
of the Hotel Windsor, said that he, with
his assistant, Robert Walker, and twen
ty helpers, were in the engine rooms.
He was made aware of the fire by the
crackling of the flames. There were
a number of women and men coming
down from the windows by means of
ropes; some slid down a distance and
dropped to the court yard. A number
of employes who vei'e on the roof jump
ed to the court yard and received frac
tures and injuries which lie thought
would cause their death.
Mr. Corbett said he met Mr. Warren
Leland, who told him to shut off the
electric current in order to enable the
firemen to combat with less difficulty
anil danger. While Mr. Leland was
talking with him several women jump
ed out of the windows and from the
roof and there lay unconscious in the
court yard.
Dr. Robert Safford Newton who was
one of the first doctors to arrive, said
that many women ami 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 loss on the contents of the build
ing is almost complete. Ihe salvage
men managed to save $20,000 worth of
paintings on the first floor of the hotel,
but very little else, was carried out.
Many of the guests who lived at the
Windsor regularly lost valuable jewelry
and bric-a-brac and furnishings, among
them being F. F. Flower, a nephew of
ex-Govem'or Flower, who among othei
things, lost a package of jewelry valued
at SB,OOO.
I 'Hie loss on the hotel is estimated at
at least $1,000,000. All the papers and
books of the hotel are believed to have
been saved.
Up to midnight the ruins had not cool-
The War Has JUst PsUn
TAGALOS' EXTERMINATES! ONLY
GUARANTY OF Pi^ACR
Inability of Americans to Estimate Plans, Re
sources and Numbers of Filipinos—
More Prisoners Captured*
Manila. March 17.—4 p. m.—Company 1
G, of the Washington regiment, has cap-j
tuml 150 additional prisoners near
Taguig and also seized some ammunition.
Most of the rebels arms were hidden or
thrown into the river.
The engineers threw a temporary
bridge across the Fasig river for the ar
tillery and commissary trains.
THE REAL SITUATION.
Hong Kong. March 1i. —The following
general view of tlx* situation is from a J
correspondent of tlx* Associated Press
at Manila, and has evidently not been
subjected to censorship:
“The most remarkable feature of the
situation is the inability of the Ameri
cans and residents to estimate the num
bers, resources and plans of the Filipinos.
Prominent generals think that two or
three disastrous battles will break their
spirit and make them sue for terms. A
majority of the English and other resi
dents are of the opinion that the exter
mination of the Tagalos is the only
guarantee of peace, that they can easily
lie whipped if they give battle, but that
they, will dodge a meeting with i the
Americans in force.
“Some people think they will risk bat
tles at Malabon and I’aranaque. where
they are strongly entrenched, and that if
they are defeated they will resume bush
whacking and keep it up as long as any
of them are left.
United States Consul Williams says;
** ‘I don’t expect to live to see the end
of the war.’
“The rebels shift about so much that
it is impossible* to estimate their num
bers.
“The correspondent questioned several
generals as to tlx* number of Ihe rebels,
and Ihe .replies ranged from 2U.UUU to
100.000. The estimates of the quantity
of arms possessed by the rebels are
equally uncertain. The l**st authorities
say 30,000. Large sections of tlx* arm
ed natives are ignorant of the use of
their weapons.
“The country beyond the American
lines is rice fields, cane and brush. The
rebels are familiar with every inch of
it. and it affords tine hiding places.
“The residents say the Tagalos are
unanimously rebels, and they predict the
Americans will he resisted at Mindoro
and Mindanao, and that they will be
obliged to subdue them.
“The extent of the support which the
other Luzon tribes aw* giving Aguinaldo
is a mystery. It is known that several
regiments were under arms before the
outbreak, but the majority of them are
supposed to be jealous of the Tagalos,
who are reported to be treating the other
tribes in the fashion of the Spaniards,
dominating the island and holding all the
offices.
“Reports from the rebels are to the
effect that the -recent tactics of the
Americans in, retiring to their establish
ed lines after pursuing them, makes the
rebels think they are winning victories.
“The Oriental character is so deceptive
that the residents of Manila are ignorant
as to whether their own servants sym
pathize with the rebels or not. It is
ed off sufficiently to allow a search for
bodies. A big force of men is now at
the ruins ready to make a search as
soon as possible. It is believed by both
firemen and police that there are a
number of bodies in the, ruins.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIIIE.
Man Lit a Cigar and Tossed the Match
Aside.
New York, March 17. —Regarding the
origin of the lire the Herald tomorrow
will publish flu* following:
John Foy, a waiter in the hotel, was
passing through the hall on the parlor
floor., the first above the street. He
was making his way to a place where
lie could catch a moment’s sight of the
parade. In front of him walked a man
patron of the hotel. The waiter did
not know him. Passing thus one be
hind the other, they hail nearly gained
tlx* angle of the passage near Fifth
Avenue and 4t!tli street, wheli the pat
ron drew a match and lighted a cigar
or cigarette. He tossed the match
aside. It was still blazing ami fell into
the folds of a lace curtain. In an in
stant the flimsy fabric was ablaze, and
instantly the flames shot to surrounding
draperies.
This, from all accounts, was the ori
gin of the holocaust in which many
human beings jierisheil and others were
severely mangled, while helpless thou
sands looked on in wild horror.
SISTER-IN-LAW OF CANDLER.
Mrs. Alice Price Injured in the Windsor
Fire.
Macon, Ga., March 17. Mrs. Alice
Price, who was reported injured in the
Windsor Hotel fire in New York, was
the widow of the lute W. P. Price,
prominent cotton merchant of Macon:
was a sister-in-law of Governor Candler
of Georgia, and of Mayor S. B. Price, of ,
Macon. Sin* is one of the handsomest
| women in Georgia and mother of Miss I
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
known that a rebel organization exists
in the city, and the evidence is growing
that there was a widespread plot to
assassinate the Americans, the signal
being the commencement of hostilities.
The servants were instructed to kill
their employers; but they were terrorized
by the vengeance dealt out to offenders,
and they weakened. Every Tagalo
would have cut his employers throat if
he had dared, or at least this is a current
saying.
“'1 he faithlessness of the natives is
illustrated by the action of the commis
sioners who came here to offer the alle
giance of tm* Island of Negros. It is
now known that they were in friendly
communication with Aguinaldo while
here.
“The rebels have been resupplied with
ammunition and are using smokeless
powder.
“Nearly every house here displays a
foreign flag for protection, whether it
is entitled to it or not. All flags except
the Spanish flag are seen. From the
native huts hang white towels or shirts.
“The natives working in the fields
plant a white flag on u bamboo as a
protection against being mistaken for
active rebels.
“Every hut between the city aud the
American line is a heap of ashes.
“The residents are the Chief suffer
ers from the present state of affairs.
| Food commodities have doubled aud
trebled in prices, and many lines of
business are at a standstill.
I “After 7 o’clock in the evening it
death-like silence prevails in the city,
except for the footsteps of the sentries
or their challenges as an occasional
civilian is halted. Every sentry calls
upon the passing civilians to explain
their business. The shutters are all
closed for fear of shootings, occurring in
the streets, and the theatres, restaurants
and stores are also closed. Uniformed
Spanish officers in the public places
sneeringly say:
| “ ‘lt would be different if we were
in control.’
“As an instance of the nervous ten
sion prevailing, it is cited that when the
sunset gun was tired on Sunday a whole
regiment encamped at the Luneta jump
ed for its arms as if at a word of com
mand.
“About 300 new saloons have been
1 opened here since the American occu-*
pation, with the result that many
drunken soldiers are to be seen in the
streets. The officers, however, say the
conduct of tlx* soldiers is better than
those of other nations under similar cir
cumstances.
• “The chief topic of conversation at
present is the delay in assigning Major
General Lawton to a command.
"Everybody expected that he was to
take command of the troops, and he is
•eager to get to work, but he has been
a spectator of all the week’s fighting,
and his staff and ten years’ old son
have been exposed to the hottest fire.
“There is an impression that Japanese
firms are supplying the rebels with
arms. The Japanese papers are urging
Japanese mediation.”
Alice Brice, last season's belle at Narra
gansett Bier, and who died three months
ago. She was formerly Miss Williams,
of Jones county, Georgia.
No Miss M. Bierce is known in Macon
so far as cun be learned to-night.
M'KINLEY LOOKS BRIGHTER.
lie is Enjoying 11 is Vacation and
Gaining Strength.
Thomasville. Ga., March 17. -The
Bresidont is beginning to show plainly
tlx* good effects of his outing. The
! bloom is once more returning to liis
cheeks and the fagged out appearance is
; vanishing, lie is enjoying pretty drives
around Thomasville. Invitations con
tinue to pour in from the surrounding
country, but are being declined in pur
suance of the purpose to avoid every
thing having the aspect of a semi-public
- function. The l’resiileutial mail is
! growing rapidly, tlx* people being well
I acquainted now with Mr. McKinley's
i whereabouts. The statement cannot be
made too broad that it is the Bresident’s
wish that communications on business
and other matters be sent to W ashing
ton. w here attention will be given them.
I the present trip being solely for play
■ and rest and not work.
President McKinley was shocked to
hear of the frightful holocaust at the
Windsor Hotel, New York, and grate
ful that all the family of his brother,
Abner, had escaped unhurt.
Judge Day. formerly Secretary of
State, who is now at Balm Beach, will
stop at Thomasville on his way North,
in all probability, and may be one of the
party to Jekyl Island.
TOTAL BANK CLEARINGS.
New York, March 17. —The total
hank clearings in the United States for
the week were $.1,845,172,689; per cent
increase, 42.9 ner cent.
Exclusive of New York, $623,054,149;
per cent increase. 23.6.