, 1892-02-09
DEATH ANGELS WORK.
Terrible Disaster Caused by the
Hotel ROYAL Fire.
Only Nine Bodies so Far Taken
From the Debris.
These We're Charred Beyond
all Recognition.
A CHASTITY Hand and a Foot
are Found.
Million Dollar Fire IN Mem
phis, Tennessee.
Rescuing the KILLED.

New YORK, Feb. S.-The work of
clearing away the ruins of the Hotel
Royal. which burned early Sunday morn
ing and in which so many lives were lost.
is being carried on by 125 Italians in
charge of Contractor Gallegan.
Nine bodies had been found at 2:30,
but how many charred and mangled bodies
are still buried beneath the ruins of the
hotel is a question of uncertainty.
The bodies of many others may lie
hidden in the mass of steaming wreckage
which chokes up the wide space between
the blackened and d~isfgured walls.
Careful examination of the hotel
register and journal which we're furnished
BY Night Clerk Underwood, shows that
the number of persons in the building
when the fire broke out was 1877. Of
these eight are known to be dead.
Eighty-one were rescued BY the firemen
assisted by citizens before the walls
Collapsed and sixty.one are still missing.
Among those who were rescued from the
building are twenty-four who are more or
less seriously burned and bruised.
The following persons are thought to
have been buried in the debris: j. K.
Smith and wife. Springfield, Mass; Fl.
jackson, jersey City; Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
kee. New Haven; N. +. Leroy, STAN
fird. Conn; Thomas Gould and wife. j.
g. Williams and wife, Albany, N. Y; t.
vanAlystin,, P9ushkeePsie; R. Mar,
rong and wife, Boston; F.. V. Leuckrel
and wife. New York; Mr.. and Mrs.
White. Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs. Falkner
and daughter, Connecticut; E. T. v.
Leonard and wife, Philadelphia: E. F.
Lonlouka, Buport. Ont; E. A. CLARK
and vile. Boston; L. @. Taylor and wife,
Newark. N. j.; F. Lester and wife,
Boston; Peter Taylor. New York; Mr..
and Mrs. J. G. Price, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Trafford. New Richelle; H. D. Toutine,
New York; VIM. f. Reese. Cambridge,
Mass. F. Knapp, Boston; J.. Thompson
and wife. city; a. Walker. Albany; A.
A. Townsend, Newhayen; Fl. A. Warren
and wife. Nyiack; E. M. White and wife,
Nyack; r. E. Wood, JERSEY City; J.. r.
Bureis. New York city; j. Onderonk,
Dalton. Md. @. Darlington. New York;
John 81. Parkinson and wife, Grevai
Neck.
Late this afternoon workmen found a
foot and part of a leg in the ruins. At
$3.50 a body was found. 1t was SO badly
DuihCu aS W pO uuICCORulLtDlt AT O.4O
the eleventh body was brought to view,
the legs were almost gone, the arms had
been burned off and the head crushed. In
the upper Jaw a set of false teeth were
found, which looked like those of a
woman. There are 100 men at work on
the debris and will be kept going night
and day until they heve completed the
work of clearing away the ruins. In all
probability it will take three days. One
of the bodies recovered has been identified
as the body of A. A. Townsend of New
Haven, Conn. A crowd has been at the
morgue all day, but has been very quiet
and orderly and there has been no trouble
in keeping order. The officers elected all
who had evidently been attracted there by
mere curiosity.
A steam derrick was placed in Fortieth
street and a number of electric lights
strung in order that the work could be
continued all night. Two more bodies of
women were recovered in the evening.
One of them was identified as Mrs.
Lewis, a bookmaker's wife. The body
designated as No. 9 was recognized as
that Of Miss Bagley, the housekeeper.
Mrs. Hattie Van Norden, wife of II.
), Van Norden, manager of the Royal
Worcester Corset company, is undoubt-
edly among those who persisted. The
woman had jewels worth between $50, 900
and $40, 900 in a chamoIs skin belt
strapped around her waist at the time of
the fire anG the gems, together with her
valuable papers. are in the ruins with her.
Several terribly burned bodies of men
were drawn from the ruins.
One of the Italians digging in the ruins
fell in a fit before midnight. He imagined
he had sunk his pick into the body OF one
of the victims. Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean
and Miss Annie Cummings, who were
reported missing, turned up tonight.