The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-02-11
NEW YORK HOTEL HORROR
TWENTY OF THIRTY pEoPLr
Lose Their Lives In Fire Trap. The
Hotel Royal Burned Early
Sabbath Morning.

New York, Feb. S.--The Hotel Royal, Oh
Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, was
destroyed by fire early Sunday morning and
a large number of people were burned TO
death, many suffocated by smoke and Others
crushed TO death in the ruins. There were
i33 people in the house at the time the FIRE
broke out or these five have been found
dead and many are in the hospitals Just
how many escaped It is difficult to say, but
late in the afternoon the firemen and the
police came to the conclusion that the mum.
Der OF lives lost would be between y and 30.
The full number Of deaths due to the fire
may not be known for days. The money
loss Is $4,000.
Twelve persons are knoyn to be dead--l0
not identified, Henyy &. Levy, Of Levy
strauss & Frcemn,, New York, and A. A.
Townsend, New Haven. Conn.
The missing rs far as known are: Mrs.
Slate, Mrs. Begley. housekeepers; Mrs Cory,
Mrs. Nay md child, Mrs. Van Noorjen.
Chalder handt, Mrs. Henderson, Of Denver
Coo, MIS- Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis, Mr..
and Mrs Guild, William u. Armstrong,
| CharlesClose, Thomas Kennedy. four cham.
hermNts. some SO persons are known TO
| be IN ling.
othr employees who slept in the building
were " saved. or the transient guests moth
| ing definite Is known, as the register Is miss
| ing AMI even IL the register were found il
| would gve no clue to tue missing, as II u
| thoughimany of the transents were regis.
! tered uIder assumed names.
| The Injured are c. w. Kleine, of Hazel
ton, Pa. Walter l.. Yates, Isabella Meares,
wife of I-oprietor OF Hotel Royal perbert
Harding engineer at hotel, Richard Meares,
proprietor of hotel
II wasl few minutes after o'clock Sun
day moning when the flames were first
| discovered. They never had better fuel.
| The building was composed OF several old
structus all combined into the Hote Royal
years ao In fifteen minutes the whole of
the six tory structure was ablaZc. Flames
shot or every window In the front of the
bouse.nd people In the street could see per-
.ons ushing frantically TO and fro on every
hoo,of he burning building. People lcaped
out0A the windows to the sidewalks and
wee gathered up uncOnscious, burned,
minPd and mangled 10y the iiremen aud
ca'ri4 10 places of safety. The most heroic
efo' Of the tiremen were impotent against
tie Iyouring element
Throwing scenes were witnessed by those
whcwere assembled In sight of the hotel
Ondinknown man sprung from a window
on pc third floor and was dashed 10 death
on he sidewalk below before the mortified
ey;s Of the spectators. A moment later an
oher man leaped from window aud was
tangled 20 death on the pavement. shortly
/ dherwards two women jumped from win
| dows Willing hands soon grasped them uI
but they were dead. Their bodies were Al
once removed to the morgue.
| When the walls fell people were seen nj
several windows on the upper floors crying
for help, but they fell back and were swal.
lowed up in he outburst of flames which
rose from the ruins How many then met
their deaths, how many were suiIJcated in
their rooms Is not known.
The origin of the blaze is mystery. Tn,
| janitor says the flames were shooting uI
the elevator shaft when he first noticed
them.
Among the statements flying around n
TO the cause the disaster was one th at tn
hotel fireman was drunk. that the clerk wa
asleep and that the ianitor fought the
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