Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-02-08
Another Hotel Horror.

About 8 O'Clock yesterday morning fire
broke cue In ,be basement Of the fve.story
brick Hotel Royal, at the southeast corner
OF Sixth avenue and 40h street, Nav York.
The hotel was burned to the ground and a
large number of people we're burned, srtlo
Gated or crushed In the rulna At the time
Of the disase. there were nearly $50 guests
In the hotel. The hotel employ eee, all told,
numbered 55. Ofthis number OF people 5
have thus far been found dead, 6 ere In the
hospital and SO have been reported alive.
Oae hundred are etil missing. Tie NUN.
Der dead will probably not exceed 80 per.
sons. The pecunIary loas Ia estimated at
$3.50 600.
Nearly every one Of the 124 rooms which
the Hotel Roy al had on | g 6ge floors were
occupied by guests many of them transient
10 fact all the rooms save four had been
taken ct l O'clock yesterday mornlng. when
Rohard Mesrs, the proprietor, went to bed
When the fl .mes burst forth from come un-
known cause near the elevator shaft the en-.
tire building was instantly enveloped 10
flames.
At 800 O'Clock Mira. Isabella Mears. wife
ef Mr. Richard Mesrs, proprietor of the ho
tel, awakened her husband. telling him the
house was on f,e. She heard the cracking
of the fants through the orevices Of their
bedroon door. Mr.. Meare had only retired
at l O'Clock erd wes aroused With difficulty.
Ha sprang out OF bed and ran Into the hall!
way. he succeeded In reaching the street
and few miuutes later bis wife was res.
cued by Hremsn.
The scenes at the fire before the FIRE conpa- los
arrived were hesytren6ing. One msn, whose
name is not known, sprapg from a third story
window and wss dashed to death on thu groun1
tel,w. People turned their faces away Mortified
at tito isht. A moment later another man leap
cd from window aid was instantly killed.
sh r,ly sfterwa,d two women jumped from win
dows ind were dead when picked mp. Several
others had dropped from windows or slid down
ropes vi h which every room ia tho hotel Was
provided, AID escaped with severe burns, whie
many more hid been injured in the samc way
making their escGps by t &c fir. scapcs.
AN this time the fra was r.giug Fl RELY, aud 1t
was plAia to DO seen that the building was DOOM
ed. The structure bara I'D like 50 much kindlipg
Yocd, The wCrk of rescuing GUSTS still went on
and many were taken from tho windows By fire.
men and policemen.
Mr.. Frede Uhlmann, who had bsen guest
at Hotel Royal for years, escaped with only an
oy. rcoat to cover his nakedne s. Mr. ChlmaDn
lost everything in his room, irc uding $12.OOJ
in ash, several CHECKS und notes and other Vaiu'
able business documents.
Many narrow escapes occurred before the vaEE
OF the building fell, while tho fremen W re doirg
their utmo-t to stop the progress Of the flames,
which threatened to eDveiop the adjoi-ing build
ings When the walls fell people were en- st
several windows On the top floor CRY ing for help.
but they fell back and were SOON baried in tho
rrinF.
to work clearing away the depris. Up to two
o'clock this afternoon I: ur bodies had been found
and removed to the mt rsue. Three of the bodies
ws1e those OF women and the fourth that Ola
mar. Added 10 the five bedits 1t the morgue yes
teroay this makes nine in sill recovered from the
7uis. OF these only one, that Of Harry J, Levy,
has been identified,