The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-10
In THE HOTEL RUINS
Still Delying for Dead Bodies at
New York.
SEVENTEEN BODIES RECOVERED.

Il Is Expected That Today's Work |
Will Largely Increase the Number
Only Few Bodies Identified Tins
MISUNDERSTANDING the Cause Of
the Tragedy.
NEW YORK, Feb. I0.-The search for
bodies in the ruins 81 the Hotel Royal
still continues. OF the sixteen bodies
recovered up to o'clock last evening
five had been killed by jumping from
windows, seven were taken from the
ruins Monday and five were found yes
terday. OF those discovered yesterday
the first was the body of an unknown
woman, burned beyond recognition,
which was removed from the cellar be-
meath the restaurant. She had false
upper and lower teeth. Soon afterward
the body of man was found few feet
away. Half an hour later the body of a
woman, whose shoulders were covered
with a half burned shawl, was discovered
near by, and little further on another
woman's body, which was burned so
badly that nothing remained by which
she could be recognized, was taken out
of the cellar. ALI the bodies were placed
in pine collins and hurried off to the
morgue. Meanwhile some of the men
continued to dig among the ruins, and
late in the afternoon the seventeenth
body was found, that of a woman with
d shawl wrapped about her head.
A Dismembered Foot Found.
About an hour and half after the
seventeenth body had been removed the
workmen discovered foot near where
the last body had been found. The coro-
ner decided that it was one of the miss
ing portions of that body, and ordered it
to be placed in the coffin containing it.
A few feet from where the foot was
found quantity of clothing was I'M
earthed. On it was the name &C. Ford.
A few minutes later the diamonds of
Mrs. Hattie Van Norden were found in
a silver gold lined casket. These jewels
were identified by Henry Van Norden,
who haunted the ruins night and day
since early Sunday morning, as the
property Of his missing wife. There
were four diamond rings, one pair Of
diamond earrings, a solitaire screw stud,
one diamond scarf pin, and a badge of
the Benevolent Order of Elks.
OF the dead only six have been iden-
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hen, aged 30, wife of a Toronto bus1-
ness man; Louis Levy, aged 43, Of Lon
don, Ontario; Henry j Levy, clerk in a
wholesale clothing. store in this city;
Mrs. Sarah Blake, of Sheldonville, Conn.,,
aged 30; Alonzo A. Townsend, of New
Haven, Conn; Elizabeth Donohue, a
chambermaid at the hotel
Two in Critical Condition.
All of these who were injured by the
fire excepting three Walter Yates. Mrs.
Meares and Miss Eta Green-have left
the hospitals as cured. OF the three re-
manning, the condition of Miss Green
and Mr.. Yates is still most critical. Mrs.
Meares is suffering from shock and q
number of Commissions, but will pull
through all right. Miss Green, who
was a remarkably pretty and attractive
girl, was the cashier of the Sturteyant
house. Some of her friends identified
her on Sunday night, but at their re-
quest the hospital authorities would not
give out her name.
There is still great mass of ruins re-
naming in the further end of the exca-
walton over against the wall of the For
tieth street portion of the building,
which is still standing. 1t is behind this
wall that the elevator shaft was located,
and over which the unner railways con-
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