Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-08
A HOTEL HOLOCAUST.

ftlihu JuC tbEElplc OCCuftuCt III IhA
Place, still fresh In the public minC
occurred In this city early yesterda
morniDg. The Hotel Royal, this
well-known landmark, which ha
-tood for more than a quarter Of
century at the southeast corner {
sixth avenue and Fortieth street
burned to the ground and larg
number Of persons were burned
suffocated and crushed in the ruins
AZ the time Of the disaster ther
were nearly $50 guests in the house
TIE hotel employees, all told, mum
hered flfty-five. or the $50 people
five have thus far been found dead
six are i'm the hospital and sixty
three have been reported alive. On,
hundred are still missing, Tn,
humber of dead will probably NOT
exceed, at a later estimate, thirty
The scenes were heartrendlng ano
appalled, even the firemen and po
'icemen, who are used TO such sights
Soon after the fire broke out, ambu
lances arrived from the various hos
pitfalls, aud many physicians, whose
residences are In the neighborhood,
were quickly on the scene, and die
all they could to relieve the injured.
Nearly every one Of the 124 rooms,
which the hotel had ON its five
floors, was occupied by guests,
many of them transients. In facl
all the rooms, save four, had been
taken at O'Clock yesterday morn.
ing, when Richard Meares, the pro-
prletor, went to bed. When the
flames burst forth, from some un
known origin, near the elevator
shaft, the entire building was in
stantly enveloped in flames.
New YORK, Feb. Sat 1880 a.
m. the best estimates, based upon
the police reports, the coroner's llst,
and The World reporters investiga-
tion, show: Dead, 5. injured, "a;
missing, 80; saved, 81.
This morning II was also learned
on good authority, that Harding.
the foreman of the hotel, who first
discovered the fire, fought the
flames for 10 minutes before he rails
ed the alarm. Harding depies 1t.
New York, Feb. S.-The search
for the dead in the ruins of the
Hotel Royal, which burned yester-
day morning, was resumed this
morning. Seven bodies had been
Pound at half past nine. From care
'ul examination of the hotel register
md journal furnished by Clerk
Underwood, the number of persons
n the building when the fire broke
'ut was 1852. or these, eight are
known to be dead; eighty-one were
'escucd before the walls collapsed,
Ind slxty-one are still missing.
among those rescued from the fam
ng building, twenty-four were more
" less seriously burned and bruised
L is not impossible that a number
II those who are still among the
missing this morning may have
'scaped, but until the great heaps of
lebris have been removed no one
ian tell what will be disclosed.
NEW York, Feb. s.-By noon
wo more bodies were removed, both
II them women; one Is supposed to
le that of n woman employed about
he hotel, Victor Polleriu, u waiter,
who worked In the hotel some time
lgo, this morning said that IL was
he habit for rubbish TO accumulate
u one corner of the kitchen This
pile OF rubbish on three different
occasions caught fire but was quickly |
xtinguished. Pollerln believes It
vas here the fire originated.
BOYD GOES IN TO-DAY.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. S.--The State
Journal contains the following,
"TheNebraska gubernatorlal mud
lie Is settled for the present, at least.
he attorneys Of Governor Thayer
re not certain the Office can be
'gally turned over 10 Governor
lloyd before the official mandate Is
acelved, but Thayer wishes 10
ave the state this week, aud has
cen 80 annoyed by the clamor OF
loyd's friends that he has deter
lin,d 90 surrender the seat imme-
lately, II Boyd Is willing 10 take
he responsibility Of holding the
fncal papers,"
MIR, Thayer's letter rendering the
ifice TO Mr.. Boyd was made public
Ist evening. II IL rs follows;
"When l commenced proceedings
year ago 10 Test your title 20 the Of {
&c Of governor, ! did SO In the belief I
lat there WIS great doubt Ia the
ablic mind ~ 10 your citizenship
I'D eligibility. l then took occa- ,
on 10 publicly say that No soon rs ]
bur citizenship was established by .
ie courts va uld gladly surrender I
Ie oilioe TO yon. The contest wins 4
n one OF personal strife, nor Go q
tlsfy ATTY ambition of my own, b
II 10 comply with an uphold the a
o the state. Now that a
9 public pa ~ has announced that b
Q highest tFlbun, 4 has declared, a
der the constitution and laws Of y
= country and sta'e, your right 70 Il
y oliice OF governor, am, With. N
I awaiting tbs mand ,le of the a
art, willing to SURF, der the oGiies. Al