The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-02-11
BURNED TO DEATH.
NEW : 0RK Visited By ANOTHER TER.
RIBLE CATASTROPHE.
The HOtsl Roya. Destroyed N the Dead Of
Night-Fivs bodies Recovered, Six Sc
rioEsly Injured and One Hundred
Still Missing.

JHe IeFrIOle occurrences at DafK PlaC(
still fresh in the public mind, occur
red in this city early this morning
The Hotel Royal, well known land
mark, which has stood more than
quarter of century at the goutheas
3 corner of Sixth avenue and For
tieth street, was burned TO tn
ground and large number oE peopl
? burned, sGtfocated and crushed
in the ruins. At the tine O
the terrible disaster there wer,
nearly $50 guests in the hotel. TIL,
| hotel employees, all told, number fifty
five people. OF this number of people
five have thus far been found dead
six are in the hospital and sixty-tE rec
have been reported alive. One han.
dred are still missing The number
Of dead will probably not exceed
thirty.
The scenes were heartrendine
and appalled, even the firemen and
policemen, used to terrible scenes
AS soon after the fire broke out am
balances arrived from the various
hospitals. Many physicians whose
residences were in the neighb0rhood
were quickly on the scene and did all
they could to relieve the injured.
Nearly every one of the one hundred
and twenty-four rooms which the no
tel has on its five floors was occupied
last night by guests. Many of them
were transient. In fact, all the rooms
save four, had been taken at O'Clock
this morning when Richard Mears,
/ the proprietor, went to bed.
! The flames burst forth from some
unknown origin, near the elevator
shafts about o'clock, and soon the
entire building was enveloped in
| flames.
The dead, missing and injured re-
ported are as follows.
DEAD.
Unknown woman 40 years old, frac-
tured skull, slightly burned, supposed
TO have Jumped from window and
killed herself.
Unknown woman about %, good
looking, light complexion, wore
abundance Of jewelry, burned and
suffocated.
Unknown man about 50 years old,
dark brown hair, jumped from a
window, head smashed in pieces,
smooth face, about 5 feet inches
high, weight about $50 pounds, wore
linen night shirt and trousers.
Unknown man, good looking, about
43 years old, had on striped silk
undershirt, light brown stripes, evil
IDENTIFY Hebrew.
Henry G. Levy Of the firm Of Levy,
Straus d Freeman, 707 Broadway, |
wholesale clothiers, identified by his |
brother
Clarence w. Klein, 80 years old,
single, lawyer of Hazleton, Pa, sufIo-
Gated and burned, injuries not fatal, |
taken to Bellevue hospital.
Walter l.. Yates, 60 years old,
clothier, Philadelphia, condition Sc
rious, burns and Commissions, Bellevue
hospital.
Mrs. Isabella Means, wife Of the
proprietor, injuries not serious, will |
recover, taken to Bellevue hospital.
Herbert Harding, engineer at hotel,
fatally burned trying to rescue a
woman, several ribs broken, taken to
hospital.
MISSING.
Win Il Armstrong, Thos Kennedy,
Chas. Close.
RESCUED.
w G Buchanan, C S Souby, Rupert
Lamont, G Jones, e b Reynolds and |
wife. G Cock burn, Il G Allen, OHepler,
C w Hite, G Harding, w III Scott and
wife, Langdon Smith, G r McGee,
Jas + Corey, Mrs J Titus, Mrs S
Knapp, Chicago, escaped the burning
and were taken to the Ged-
ney house.
p. Taylor, II. p. Tompkins and w.
c, Pearce were also rescued and taken
to the Hotel MetrOpole.
At 800 o'clock Isabel Mears, wife
of Mr.. Richard Mears, proprietor OF
the hotel, awakened her husband,
telling him the house was on fire.
Mears sprang out of the bed and
shouted, "Follow me-" snatched up
his coat and ran into the hallway.
He fought his way straight to the
street. When Mears reached safety
in the street, he realized that his wife
was not with him. AT that moment
the hook and ladder arrived. A lad
der was quickly placed in position.
The window selected was not the
right room, but in it was an unknown
woman who quickly stepped out on
the ladder and came down safe. Then
the ladder was placed against the
window of Mrs. Mears' room. She
was very nervous and in making the
descent slipped and fell to the side
walk. She was picked up with a
sprained ankle and had several body |
bruises.
The scenes at the fire before the fire
companies arrived were heartrending.
One man, whose name is not known,
sprang from third story window and
was dashed to death on the ground
below on the Sixth avenue side of the
building. A moment later
another man, leaped from a win
dow on the Fortieth street side
and was instantly killed. Shortly at-
terward two women jumped from
windows on the Sixth avenue side.
They were dead when picked up. The
bodies unidentified were removed to
the morgue. Several others dropped
from the windows or slid down ropes
with which every room in the hotel