Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-09

were 1872 persons IN the Motel at the
time of the fire. and Of these eighty
two arL known to he safe. Twelve bodies
have been recovered which leaves Efty-
eighr persons unaccounted for. That some
of these escaped is certain, and it is equal
" certain that a good portion of those IS
Gaping, perhaps all viii forever keep theft
ident ty secret for obvious reasons.
Had an ''Enga;sem emit with FraHk Wolf.
Work was resumed in "A few minutes
the sop having been made to remove
portion Of wall which appeared dangerous,
a bon $50 CLOCK Iady's memOrAEdUin
book, On the back Of which was The naa.e
OF Mrs, II. A Cate, was found. 1t con
tained some money. Il few sriHes and two
cards. One pl the cards had engraved
upon &c the name III. A. Cate ana III blue
peEcl the address, "a Seventh avenue
was written The Other card had written
upon it Frank Wolf, Jr., SIS p. IN.
Visitors at the MorGue.
There were many visitors at the morgue
during the day, and it was sad common
tary or the characters Of some Of the miss
ing that so many of the visitors intimated
shady regulations Of those whom they
sought Two bodies were positively iden
titied-A A. Townsend, of New Haven,
and Mrs Begley. hOusekeeper
The List of the injured.
A full list of the injured was completed
during yesterday and is believed TO be cor.
rect. l numbers thirty persons, as fol
lows: !. A Avery, of the American to
bacco company. New York, burns and
bruises, quite serious; NJ Blockard, New
York. burns and slight injuries; w G.
Buchanan. New York, slightly burned; ..
Doppeler, New York, burned about the
hands; f. 5. Fonda, Rupert, Vi, hands
burned; David q. Glenn, New York, po-
liceman, left shoulder broken. Herbert
Harding New York, injured about the
ribs in falling, fireman Of the hotel: Mr..
and Mrs. Il l. Harmon. New York
Mr. Harmon burned abont face
and rds and injured internally,
Mrs Harmon, fractured skull! and 1high
and injured spine Clarence W. Klein.
lawyer. iazeltoA, Pa, partly suff coated
and also severely burned, Mrs. Samuel
Knapp. Boston, hands burned NJ J.
Levey, New York. OF imperial Djstilline
company hands torn coming down ire
escape; Mr. and Mrs. I. j Lock hart, New
York, hands cut badly sliding downa rope;
DR.. o. l.. Lusk, New York. hands severely
burned, knees and foot cut and bruised;
o. b. Lusie. Richmond. Va. bookmaker,
badly burned about the feet, Richard
Meares. proprietor of Hotel Royal. hands
burned: George w Magea, Brooklyn. y.
y. burned about the hands; Isabella
Meares, wife OF proprietor, leg fractured
and body and limbs burned: Justin NJ
NooLan, Jersey City y. J., slightly in
jured; Mrs. +. b. Reynolds. Philadelphia,
hand burned: Mrs W : Scott, r. New
York, slightly burned; A w Teal, New
York, slightly burned: II. .. Tompkin~,
New York. hand cut and bruised coming
down fire escape; Miss NJ 4 Titus. Al
6any, y. Y, hands burned: Miss Marie
Warren. New York, slightly injured, Fred
erick Uhimann, New York, hand cut;
Charles " White. Philadelphia, hands
and arms burned; Walter l.. Yates, Ph;la-
delphia, cloohier, badly burned and
bruised-it is thought he will die; I'M
known woman, i'll New y orl hospital, frac-
ture of the skull, conclusion OF the brain.
left thigh broken, will probably die, Is
about y years old
The Hotel Considered safe.
Building Inspector Brady said yesterday
that the Hotel Royal was examined about
nine mont Is ago, and it was found that
the building was properly protected by fi-o
escapes. He said: During the three years
that l have been at the head Of this depart
ment the Hotel Royal has never been re-
ported unsafe Our department has never
been charged with looking out for rope
fire escape provisions. That has always
been done by the fire department. When
! saw the burned buidics yesterday
noticed fire escapes hanging out of some
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