The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-09
Victims nj the Hotel RoyaI Fire

New YoRK, Feb S.-Search for the
dead In the ruins Of Hotel Royal. which
was stopped temporarily last night was
resumed this morning. Seven bodies have
been found at half past 9. From careful
examination of the hotel register and Jour
nal furnished by Clerk Underwood, the
number Of persons in the building when
the fire broke out was I52. There are eight
known TO be dead. Eighty one were res
cued before the walls collapsed and sixty
one are still missing. Among those
rescued from the flaming building, twenty
four were more or less seriously burned
and bruised. 1t is not impossible number
of those who are still among the N ssing
this morning may have escaped, but until
the great heaps of debris have been re-
moved no one can tell what viii be dis
closed. In taking out seventeen bodies
number Of others were brought IN view.
Every eifcrt YVES being made to recover
these, when ii was discovered that the
wall on the Fortieth street side was totter-
ing and about to fall, so the search
was suspended for time in order
that the wall might be torn down.
AS soon as this was done,
work was once more resumed. BY noon
two more bodies were removed, both those
of women. One Is supposed to be that of
woman employed about the hotel. Victor
Pollerin, waiter who worked in the hotel
some time ago, this morning said il was
the habit for rubbish to accumulated in
one corner of the kitchen. This pile of
rubbish, on three different occasions,
caught fire but was quickly extinguished.
Pollerin believes it was here the fire
originated. This morning also 1t was
learned on good authority that Harding,
the fireman of the hotel, who first dscoy-
cred the fire, fought the flames for fifteen
minutes before he raised an alarm. Hard
ing denies it.
Up to . o'clock this afternoon four bodies
had been found and removed to the
morgue. Three bodies are those of women
and the fourth that of a man. Those
added 70 the five bodies al the
morEue yesterday, make nine in all
recovered from the ruins. or these,
J. Levy has been identified. The bodies
recovered to-day are all terribly burned
and Identification may be impossible. The
sixth body found is thought TO be that of
Fanny Clark Of this city. Walter Yates,
Philadelphia elothier, is in a very critical
condition and the surgeons don't expect
him to recover.
The young woman who was taken to the
New York hospital suffering from a frac-
ture on the base OF tho skull, internal in
luries and burns is said 90 be Eta Green.
formerly cashier at the Sturtvant house
She is not expected TO recover Mrs. w.
8 Lockard, Of this city, suffering from in
terual injuries, is il critical condition.
All the others rescued from the hotel suf-
fering from burns or other injuries are said
to be doing we'll
Late this afternoon workmen found
foot and part OF a leg in the ruins. At5:3e
e BODY was found. 1t was SO badly burned
IS TO be unacceptable. AT 6 As the elev-
enth body was brought to view. The legs
were almost gone, the arms had been
burned OF and the head crushed. In the
upper jaw set of false teeth was found.
which looked like that OF g woman. a
hundred men are al work on the debris
end will be kept going night and day until
they have completed the work Of clearing
away the ruins, which, in all probability.
viii take three days. One OF the bodies
recovered to-day has been identified as
that Of A. A. Townsend, OF New Haven.
Conn.
A crowd has been at the morgue all day.
but has been very orderly, and there was
10 trouble in keeping order. The officers
elected all who evidently had been attracted
there by mere curiosity.
A steam derrick was placed in Fortieth
street and a number OF electric lights
strung in order that work could be con-
tinued all night. Two more bodies NJ
women were recovered in the evening
One Of them was identified as Mrs Lewis.
the bookmaker's wife. The body desjr-
mated as No. 9 was recognized as that Of
Mics Bagley, the housekeeper Mrs Ratue
Van Forden, wife Of Harry c. Van Nor
cen, manager OF the Royal Worcester Cor
set company, is undoubtedly among those
whit persisted. The woman had jewels worth
between $50, 900 and $40, 600 in chamois
akin belt strapped around her waist at the
time Of the fire, and the gems, together
with valuable papers, are in tho 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
ut before midnight. He imagined he had
sunk his pick into the body of one of the
victims. Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean and Miss
Annie Cummings, who were reported
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