The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-16
Five Bodies in the Morgue and
the Ruins Untouched
The Hotel Crowded with Peopi. when
the Flame, b. oke Dat With Terri
bic Fury The IIrsi To Escape
save Themselves With ID m
Guilty -Eemsrkabie tNPs-
riepce OF Lucky OHe,.

NEw HOgK, Feb The iIoie' Royal.
which has stood for more than u quarter
OF century at tie southeast corner OF
Sixth avenue aud Forclctb street. was
burned To the ground early yesterday
morning and large number Of people
were undoubtedly burned, suiiuCdtcd and
crushed III the runs.
Al the time the fire brOSe out there
were NJ rly 80 guests ia the hotel, while
the hotel employees numbered h!ty-hve.
OF this number five have thus far been
, found dead SIX are Ia the hospital aud
siA.y-thrce haze bccU reported alive.
Landlord M"irs went TO the clerk > desk
a. about - - and asCcrtaInej that al out
four of the ll0 rooms and suites IN the
house had been taken He estimated that
there were about / % 10 II1 people IN the
house lie learned later that the otter
four ROOMS we're taken before a IN
lie says that the scenes alter he reached
the street we're beyond his powers OF Por-
trayal. Men and women al the upper Win
dOws. clad only In night robe. shricScd
a ID gesticalated irantiraily The iiamcS
waxcd ncICcr, and presently human
form plunged from the fourth sorry and
struch the pavement head foremost with
sickcniu- crash. Another and another
SHOT downward until three unrccognizabie
bod.c, .ay bleeding aud motiouless
/; was reported at late hour that no
less Than LOO people ncre still unaccounted
( for.
The origin of the fire il unknown
The walls were shaky when the fire was
under control and before any search could
begin il was necessary TO pull them 10 IN.
This delayed investigation for bodies until
20 day.
At the morgue last night wcre five
bodies.
One of the most thrilling escapes was
that of J. Noonan of Jersey City. who had
been recently married and had Just re
turned from an extended wedding trip.
lie came TO this city yesterday 10 celebrate
the event with his friend, and went to
Hotel Royal ard took room on the fourth
floor He was awakened by the shouts of
fire and the cries for help Of men and
women in the building Escape By hall
being cut of be swung himself from the
window sill to the window below anu from
one window 10 another he descended until
:, he reached The ground.
NJ l. Harmon. a travelling salesman OF
ST Louis and his wife were surrounded
By fire in the sixth floor and be WAS first
4Is ~ 9utbA W. d'ih az A'N'.i " sith
the floor collapsed, and they went down
about two stories Then they were res
cued.
Proprietor Ncars was awakened by his
wife. rushed 10 the stairs. dropped = feet
over the railing and escaped Then he
made two attempts TO rescue his wife and
succeeded but she fell from the ladder aud
was hurt
The scenes before the fire companies ar
rived we've hrart-rcHding- One man.
whose name Is not known, spranS from
third story window and was dashed TO
death on the ground below This was on
the Sixth avenue side Of the building.
a moment later another man lcaped
from a window on tie ForlictH street side
and WAS instantly killed.
Shortly aftcrNar tNo women jumped
from windows on tue Sixth ave'uc side
and were dead wien picked Up. Their
bodies were taken 10 The Thrticth street
station house and afterward. unidentified,
removed 10 the morgue
Several others had dropped from win
dows or slid down ropes, with which every
room in the hotel was provided and es-
CAPPED with severe burns. while many more
had been injured III making their escape
b. tie hrc escape and were IN The hands
OF ambulance surgeons who had been sum-
mOned from Bellevue and New York hos
pitals
Frederick Uhlmarn. a hop dealer es
capped b. falling down stairs. lie lost
a., 900 IN cash.
Felix hraemcr, piano salesman. who
saw mau escape iroma hotel iiic at War
reDsburg. Mo. by means Of an umbrella.
used one made especially for such pur-
pose and Heated from the fourth story In
injured.
A MOTHERS MISTAKE.