The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-09
Eleven Corpses Found in Ruins
of the Hotel Royal.
THE BODIES NOT RECOGNIZABLE.
4 Hundred WOrkmen Under Electric
Lights Hunting for Victims.
One Woman Had $4,000 on Her Ter
son-Fire Mt Afemphis Destroys a MIL
Hon Dollars Worth of Property, In
cluding a Hotel.

New York, Feb. s.-Eleven bodies have
been recovered from the ruins of the Hotel
Royal. The number of persons in the
hotel when the fire broke out was 152. or
these eleven are dead, eighty-one were res
cued before the walls collapsed, and sixty
are missing. Most of the latter are safe.
OF the eleven corpses only four have been
identified:
Henry J. LEVY, New York,
A. ~ TOWNSEND New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. LEWIS. a bockmaker wife.
Miss BAGLEY, the housekeeper.
A crowd has been at the morgue all day,
but has been very orderly. and there is no
trouble of keeping order. The officers
elected all VINO had evidently been at
tractcd there by mere curiosity. One of
the bodies is thought to be that of
Fanny Clark, of this city.
Late this afternoon workmen found
foot and part of the leg in the ruins. At
Gas the eleventh body was brought to
view. The legs were almost gone, the
arms haa been burned off, and the mead
crushed. In the upper jaw set of false
teeth were found, which looked like those
OF a woman.
hundred men are at work on the
debris and will be kept going night and
day until they have completed the work
OF clearing away the ruins. which in all
probability will take three days. a steam
derrick was placed in Fortieth street and
number Of electric lights strung, in order
that work might be continued all night.
Mrs. Hattie Van Norden, wife of Harry
c. Van Norden, manager of the Royal
Worcester Corset Company, was undoubt-
edly among those who perished. Tho
woman had jewels worth between $4,000
and $40 600 in n chamois skin belt strapped
around her waist at the time of the fire.
and the gems. together with valuable pa
pers, 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 tit before midnight. He imagined
he had sunk his pick into the body of one
of the victims.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean and Miss Maggie
Cummings. who were reported missing,
turned up tonight.
Walter Yates, a Philadelphia olothier,
is in a very critical condition, and the sur
geons do not expect him to recover A
young woman who was taken to the New
York hospital suffering, from fracture at
the base of the skull, internal injuries and
bhiiNs ID ssAltA W uC E.ttst pftttlt
cashier at the Sturtevant house. She is
not expected to recover. Mrs. w. $.
Lockard, of this city, is suffering from in
ternal injuries, and is in critical con-
dition. All the others rescued from the
hotel, who are suffering from burns or
other injuries, are said to be doing well.
Victor Pollerin, waiter who worked in
the hotel some time ago, this morning
said il was habit to allow rubbish to ac-
cumulate in corner of the kitchen. This
pile of rubbish on three different occasions
had caught fire, but had been quickly ex-
tingushed. Pollerin believes that it was
there that the fire originated. This morn
ing it is also learned on good authority
that Harding, the fireman Of the hotel,
who first discovered the fire. fought the
flames for fifteen minutes before he raised
ali alarm. Harding denies it.