Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-01-29
FURIOUS AND FATAL.
FIRE DESTROYS THE HOTEL ROYAL
AT NEW YORK.

ihsny En:oatiinat"a risi,--yvlntows
Filled With People pitrcu&lv Apnca,-
Ing for EcIp, While Heroic fIiremen
and Police ;:ravelv Risk Life and Limb
to Rescue Them-Sumber of lives Lost
Placed at Between Twenty ana Thirty.
NEW YORK Feb. /. & d;sasier parel-
leling i'll horror ana probably exceeding
in loss of life the terrible occurrence in
Park Place, the remembrance of which
's f"ash in the public mind. occurred in
this city carly Sunday The Hotel
te. Z at Fourtieth street and Sixth
ayen,.> r,as burned to the ground and
large nunihe Of people We're burned
to death, many satfocated by smoke
and others crushed to death in the
ruins, 1t is known that thera, wore 125
guests nj the time the fire broi'e ~
Thsrs .sas slso some tifty-iive e.
of the house. Of thc,e ais hu,
found dead, six are i'll the hospitals
sixty three have been reported aliv,
either by themselves or friends.
1t WAS few minutes after 3 a. M.
when the flames were first discovered.
Tnry ,seysr Rad Better Fuel.
Che building was ecnpesed of several
Gid structures, all amulgamasad into
The Fo;el Royal years ago. So far as
can be icasre; The flames kiadle,Lin the
shaft Of the elevator Of ths basement at
about the middle Of the building. a
janitor wa. at work in the basement at
the time and was suddenly frightened
by the ii;tsiil..; of flames He rushed
to the street and notified the policeman
on the Sixth avenue Cori-r who sent
m alarm while the janiror rashed la
into the buil&iili. TO arouse the sleepil
guests
In fifteen minutes The whole ot
eix story structure was ablaZa. flall,
shot out al cary window in the front
of the house and peo.la in the street
could see persons rushing fralltical'y to
and fro on every floor Of the burning
building. One, two, three alarms were
sent out in rapid succession, and tho
streets and avenues were soon filed with
fire engines and trucks. Other alarms
Drodght atisbnlences from every hospi-
tai in the city. reop1o leaped out of
the windows to the sidewalks bud were
gathered up unconscious, biirned,
manned and mangled, by the fireman
and carried to places of safety. The
most heoric efforits of the fireman We're
impotent against the devouring element
ana The 1-l,o]a middle portion of the city
was brilliantly
Illuminated by the TremeHtthas Fire.
The windows We're filled with the ico.
pie in their night clothing, making pit
eous and heartrendns appeals to the
people below for help while behind them
was great sea Of flames. indeed,
titsse unfortunate beings seemed to be
actually in the fire:
The fire had spent its fnry at 5:15, for
there was practically nothing colnht,sti-
ble left in the shell. Then the sceno
surveyed by the iiremen, police and the
crowd of citizens was one of complete
and sorrowrul wreck Ambulances
had carried away the injured and those
:ghc had escaped unhurt had gone tc
the l0tels oc to the homes Of friends.
All that remained was a smoking,
blackened mound Of debris, tl;as rose to
height of twenty-five feet. And I'll.
der the debris what would the men, set
to work itnme liately to clear away the
wreck,
What Would They Find There7
Ihis question stayed with the crowd
and all day long there had been a
throng Of people in Bryant Park opposite
the ruins and around all the approaches
to the demolished hotel, watching while
ono hundred able t!remen labored in the
smoking heap, anxious, yet fearful of
what each upturned heap might bring
forth. 1t was at Il o'clock that the
first body was found. IL was a
horrible sight to behold, burned, black
encd and bruised. 1t was hurried away
to the morsus, where after much diff
Guilty it was Unidentified as the body of
Harry c. Levy, a member of the firm