Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-02-09
GOTHAM'S DISASTER.
The Number of Dead
Reached Thirteen.
MANGLED BODIES REVEALED
In the Search Among the Ruins Of the
Inflated Building.

NEW YORK, Feb 9.-Careful eyanina-
tion of the hotel register and the journal
which was furnished by the night clerk.
the number Of persons In Hotel Royal
when the fire broke out was l69. Eighty
one were rescued by the frcmen, assisted
by citizens.
Workmen digging in the ruins Of the
burned Hotel Royal at Sixth avenue and
Fortieth street, yesterday and last night,
unearthed eight more bodies of victims Of
Sunday mornings disaster. This makes q
total Of thirteen bodies recovered, twelve
of which were removed to the morgue. or
these, FIVE have been identified with more
or less certainty.
In the list of persons who are known or
supposed 70 have been in the hotel at the
time Of the fire, or for whom inquiries
have been made at the morgue or police
station. are flfty-two names Many OF
these names are obviously fictitious, and
In several cases there Is but slight ground
to believe that the persons missing were In
the hotel at all A great mass Of debris
still remains unexplored in the basement.
work Upon tho Ruins
was resumed In earnest yesterday, tho
hard and disagrecable work being done by
100 Italian laborers Early in the day
Foreman Shaw and the men of truck IL
explored the structure standing In For
ticth street. On the fifth floor Of this
building, in front room, the flremen
found the body Of u woman who had met
her death kneeling. Her clothing, II she
wore any at the time, was burned from
her. There was chased gold ring on the
third finger OF her left hand. Her coffin
was marked No. q.
The second body found yesterday was
found under the restau rant. IL was that
Of man. His legs were burned and
crushed, but the face though blackened,
would be recognizable. He was about 35
years old, and partially dressed. lie wore
a dark suit, cotton undershirt, and carried
q gold double-case watch and link chain.
A triangular emblem, with the motto
Life, love, truth" was In his waistcoat.
He had q dark mustache. Detective Kemp
numbered his cofIin 7.
A little later the Italians turned up, in
very nearly the same place,
The Body of u Woman
5ft. Pin. in height or thereabouts She was
burned and blackened beyond any chance
of recognition. She had worn nothing but
black undershirt when death overlook
her Beside her was bunch of passkeys.
The fifth body of the day was also a
woman. She was much burned, but was
recognizable. The coroners said she was
81 years old. Her eyes were blue. Her
upper set of teeth were false. She had q
garnet wrapper around her, and in her
bosom was found scorched envelope con-
Gaining $40 and a small steel key.
Late I'm the afternoon the worimen
found
A Foot and a Part OF Leg
IN the ruins. At $40 o'clock body was
found II was 50 badly burned as 70 he
unrecogniZable, and was sent 20 the
morgue.
The eleventh body was uncovered at
6:3o o'clock. The upper part of the head
had been burned or crushed so badly that
only the jaws remained The arms and the
legs from the knees were also missing.
The trunk was charred. IL was the body
of a woman. There was no clothing, nor
was any jewelry found near IL by which 10
could be identified.
An hour later body No. I2was taken out
OF the cellar near the Eortieth street en-
trance, and again IL was woman. The
head was burned beyond recognition, and
the arms and legs
Ended In Charred stumps.
Another body, No. 49, was found early
in the evening under the piano on the
down town side Of the cellar division wall.
Only the legs were uncovered, and the rest
Of the body was buried under the plano
and pile Of heavy beams.
There was not light enough to continue
the work at that point IL Is supposed
that there are several bodies buried in tho
rubbish around the elevator shaft. The
stairways wound around this shaft, and It
is probable that some persons were burnt
in attempting to escape that way.