The Forrest City times., 1892-02-12
Over Thirty Human Beings Roasted Alive In New York Hotel Yester-
 day Morning.
ONE HUNDRED QUESTS ARE
 STILL MISSING.
New York Afflicted With Another Fire Morrow that Rivals the Park
 Place Disaster.
Men and Women Jump from the win- dows and Are Crushed to Death
 on the Sidewalks.

paling in horror, bringing to mind the terrible occurrences in Park place, still fresh in the public mind. occurred in this city early yesterday morning.
 The Hotel Royal, that well-known landmark which has stood for more than quarter of a century at the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Forticth street, was burned to the ground and large number of people were burned, suffocated. and crushed in the ruins.
 At the time of the disaster there were nearly one hundred and fifty guests in the house. The hotel em- ployes all told number fifty-five. Of this number of people five have thus far been found dead, six are in the hos pital, and sixty-three have been re- missing. The number of dead will probably not exceed, at later esti. mate, thirty.
 Story of the Night Clerk.
 II. A. Underwood, the night clerk of the hotel, was in the office when the fire broke out. He says:
 I usually made a tour of the hotel every hour to see that everything was all right The last tour made was at e:30 a, m. When passed the elevator shaft in returning to the office there was no trace of fire. was checking up the restaurant receipts, when, at two minutes of three, I heard roaring noise behind me. and turning, saw blaze within ten feet of where had been standing. I am sure about the time, for looked up at the clock at that moment. ran back to investigate. There was no smoke or smell of fire mp 10 the time heard the roar. but when I reached the elevator-shaft the whole thing was mass of flames. I rushed out into the street and there met Harding. the en- gineer of the building Harding and Policeman Griffith sent in m alarm from the corner opposite and ran back into the hotel and tried to go upstairs to alarm the guests, but the flames were so dense that l had to retreat. Then tried the side stairs on the south end of the hotel. They were all right and reached the floor above. Iwent up and down the corridor on the second floor shouting "Fire!" aud pounding on doors. and endeavored then to go further upstairs, but was again driven back by the fames. I retraced my steps, and, going down the servants stairway, reached the street.
 He Says the Rooms Were Full.
 When Mr. Underwood went on duty at o'clock he says the hotel was about three quarters occupied by guests. At o'clock in the morning but two rooms were unoccupied and one of them was being held or reserved for parties who had secured it. The room numbers ran up to 12o, but there were lapses in the numbers that made the total number of rooms occupied between no and 115. His further story is:
 It was the most terrible sight ever saw. Every window on the Six tn ave- nue side of the hotel was occupied by people who were screaming for help. All means of escape had been cut off, for the elevator shaft, two minutes after the discovery of the fire, was a roaring furnace, through which the flames leaped, licking everything be- fore them. The elevator ran through shaft directly at the end of the corridor leading from the Fortieth street entrance. So it continued through the hotel. The fire once started it shut off the stairways from the use of the guests completely. Just after discovered the fire l saw Harding, the night engineer, carrying a small woman, or it may have been a child, through the cafe door to the street. The next heard of Harding was that he was injured and had been taken to the hospital. The only per sons who occupied the house besides the guests were five chambermaids and the houseSeeper, who was on the top floor. No, have not heard that they escaped, although it is possible that they did. Three men slept down Tn the basement, but do not know where, as never visited their place. These men were three engineers.
 A Thrilling Experience.
 Myer J. Levi had been living at the Hotel Royal for long time. He oe cu- pied room s5 on the second floor. He was aroused by the changing of the fire bells and the shouting of the peo- pie below. and, throwing the hotel rope out of the window, he clambered out and slid down to the ground. Nearly all the skin and good deal of the flesh on the inside of his hands was torn off. The palm of one hand was ripped open to the bone.
 An Indiana Man Saves Himself.
 l.. NJ. Schofeld went to the Hotel vendome after the fire. He is owner of the Schoield Stock Farm at Rock ford, Ind, and stays at the Royal when Tn New York. He probably fared bet ter than any one in the place. He oc- cupied a room op the ground floor of the hotel, back of the office. He thinks that he slept through good portion of the fire, but when he did awake he found escape through the hall cut off. His room. however, overlooks the co, rt yard and after packing all his belonging in trunk he tossed the trunk through the window into the yard and followed it himself. He lost nothing except an overcoat which he left in the office of the hotel
 English Imports Increasing.
 LONDON, Feb. 9.-The returns issued