The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-12
NEW YORK's HORROR HORROR
CHASTITY Work Among the Ruins
Of the Burned Hotel.
BODIES DUO FROM THE WRECK.

The Charred Remains of Twelve
Bodies Thus Far Recovered. Only
,cwo of Which Have Been Identified
Twenty-Cour of the Rescued More
or Less Burned and Bruised.
New YORK. Feb. o. How many
charred and mangled bodies are yet bur
led beneath the ruins of the Hotel Royal
is question OF horrible uncertainty.
Thus far twelve bodies have been recov-
cred, only two OF which has been identi.
fed From very careful exami-
nation of the hotel register and the jour
nal which was furnished by Night Clerk
Underwood the number of persons in
the building when the fire broke ont
was l52. OF these twelve are known
to be dead, eighty-one were rescued by
the firemen, assisted by citizens, before
the walls collapsed, and fifty-nine are
still missing
AT o'clock last night number twelve
was found. Ii was the trunk of wo-
man. and was found near the Fortieth
street entrance to the hotel. The legs
and arms were gone. and nothing was
found near the body by which it might
be recognized. Twenty minutes later
the laborers found the foot of a human
being wedged in under piano. AT this
point work was stopped temporarily.
Work was resumed in few minutes,
tine stop having been made to remove a
portion of wall which appeared danger
Gus. A lady's memorandum book, ON
the back of which was the name Mrs.
H. A. Cate. was found. Last evening
the Identification of the body in box No
8 was made complete 1t is that of Mrs
Mary Begley, the housekeeper of the
Hotel Royal
Among those who were rescued from
the flaming building are twenty-four
who are more or less seriously burned
and bruised. Three of these are at
Bellevue hospital, and there is one each
at the New York and Presbyterian hos
pitfalls. The others have been cared for
by their friends at neighboring hotels or
at their homes.
Searching for the Dead.
Naturally the first impulse was to
make for the elevator and stairways
Some no doubt in this way rushed to
their doom III their frenzy to escape dur
ing the first panic.
1t is not improbable that a number of
those who are still missing may have es-
capped the frightful fate which so many
others are known to have met, but the
thought of the possible loss of life is APP
palling. Until the great heap of bricks
and mortar and half consumed beams
and raitcrg which are packed tightly
into the death pit have been removed no
one can tell what that awful grave will
disclose.
Some Were Smothered in the Hall.
Some who rushed from their rooms at
the first alarm in all probability We're
never able to reach even the windows.
but were smothered III the dense hot
smoke which filled the Railways. In the
upper part of the hotel the passageways
were narrow and full of puzzling turns
and corners. 1t is believed that the
| bodies of the victims are buried in the
! centre of the ruins and near the foot of
the tall brick wall which is still stand
ing on the Fortieth street side. This is
where the elevator shaft was heated and
all the Railways converged at this point.
At the Morgue.
The body of Henry S. Levy, the only
one OF those at the morgue which has
been identified, was removed to the home
of the dead mans cousin. 1t was taken
to 243 East Forty-ninth street, and will
be buried in Salem Fields. Brooklyn.
| The other bodies have been viewed by
| hundreds of persons, none of whom
were. however, able to identify them.
There was a big crowd about the
morgue, but admittance was denied to
all but friends of the persons reported to
be missing. The bodies are arranged in
a row in pine collins.
a CHICAGO TRAGEDY.