Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-02-17
DIGGING FOR BODIES
Beneath the Ruins of tho Hoto,
Royal
After Removing Seventeen Blaekered Re-
mains the Search IL Temporarily
Suspended. Pending tho Teariag
Down of the Waii-IdentiGca-
tions mt tho Morgue.

New YoRK. Feb l0-The digging
and delving in the Hotel Royal ruins
for the unfortunate victims of Sunday
mornings fire was continued through
out Tuesday in a vigorous aud efficient
manner. That portion of the ruins un-
derneath where the office and dining
room of the hotel had been was cleared
of debris by $ o'clock this afternoon.
Up TO that time seventeen bodies had
been recovered
The seventeenth body was discovered
at l:55 Tuesday afternoon. There is
still great mass of ruins remaining in
the further end of the excavation over
against the wall of the Fortieth-street
portion of the building. which is still
standing. 1t is behind this wall that
the elevator shaft was located. and inn
mediately over which the upper hall
way converged. There it is expected tho
greatest number of bodies will be
found.
All day long and late into the night
crowds of curiosity seekers surrounded
the ruins a large force of police kept
the people well out of bounds, and they
could see but n little black. gaping hole
in which so many horrors lie concealed.
The mountains of rubbish which arc
hcaped up in the roadway and on the
pavemeuts on all sides of the ruins shut
the workmen almost completely from
view.
About an hour and n half after the
seventeenth body had been removed
this afternoon the workmcn discovered
a foot near where the last body had
1t was one OF the missing portions of
that body, and ordered it to Toe placed
in the coffin containing it A few feet
from where the foot was found guam
tity of clothing was unearthed On il
was the name &c A. Fords" A few
minutes later the diamonds OF Mrs.
Hattie Van Nordcn. OF which so much
has been written, were found in silver
gold-lined casket
The jewels were identified bv Henry
Van Norden. who has haunted the ruins
night and day since early Sunday MORN
ing, as the property of his missing
wife. There were four diamond rings.
one pair of diamond earrings soli-
taire screw stud, one diamond scarf-pin
and a badge of the benevolent Order of
Elks.
The scenes ut the morgue Tuesday
were mainly a repetition of those wit
messed Monday. A large crowd was
in the building aud its vicinity all day
long, and was chiefly composed. as is
usual in such cases, OF morbid curiosity
seekers This class of persons were ac-
corded scant courtesy by the officials.
Those who called for the honest pur-
pose of searching for missing ones
were, however given every opportun-
ity of Identifying them il possible
among the charred heaps lying in pine
boxes about the dead-house
Three other bodies were positively
Unidentified this morning. That in
coffin No. was positively identified rs
Mrs j. Cohen, aged 80 years, of Toron-
to. Ont. The body in coffin No. was
recognized as that of Lewis Levi, aged
- years, also of Toronto Archibald
Jacobs. brother OF Mrs Cohen. made
the Identification in botn cases
The third body to be identified was
that contained in box No 6 IL was
identified by Charles Blake. OF STAN.
ford, Ct, as his sister. Sarah Blake.
who was so years old. SO far but six
OF the seventeen bodies recovered have
been identified