Show RIL FIRE E IN NEW NEW YORK The Royal Hotel Destroyed and nd Nearly S Fifty Persons Perish 5 A disaster paralleling in horror I and probably exceeding in loss of life le the tte oc urence In In- Park Place the re re- re re-I re which is fresh in the tho public mind occurred in New ew ew York prk early Sunday morning Tho The Hotel Royal at Fortieth Str Street et and Sixth Sith avenue was burned to t the ground and a largo large o lar number of people Were burned to t death many many suffocated by ana others crushed to death in the tho ruins It I is known that there were guests guest in ia tho house house There were also soI some five fifty s in Of or these six have been fo found nd d dead aC six six ar are aro in in the tho hospitals and three sixty have havo been reported d alive livo either ier b by themselves or friends At this thi's writing Jt it is i impossible ble to o hp hS number of killed or injured with with- wih any any The Tho police polio pl ce tho the number numbe of killed at fifty while whilo they admit admit tho the b bo be number of Injured will viIi wi e It I was a few ml mi minutes utes after 3 o'clock in I tho the morning g when th the tho flames ames weco vc first discovered Thoy They never had bad better fuel The building uz was co t av ld structures al al 11 amalgamated the Hotel Motel Rpyal i years cars ago So far a as can b bo be learned in the tho shaft of th the ele do- elevator elo tutor vator in the basement at about the middle depth or of tho io building A janitor tor was jit at at ap work in the tho basement at the tho time and was suddenly frightened by th the tho flashing fashing of the am s He Ho rushed to the street stroet and notified noti fed fied the policeman on the tho Sixth avenue corner who Yh sent ent in iii in an alarm while the rushed back into the ho building to arouse tho the sleeping guests guests' esis In ff fifteen eu en th the tho whole of of the tho six- six s story ory structure o Was ivas vas ablaze Flames Iames shot ou ont ou from frem om every every window In the front of tho house and pe pe people pie ia In fio th the street could could I ce p persons rushing frant frantically caly to to and fro tro n on every floor foor of tho the burning building One tt t two c. c throe alarms were soil sent t out in Vapid rapid api succession and d the streets and avenues aye ave flues were s soon en filled fled with wih fire firo fre engines and trucks Oth Other r alarms alais brought ambulances from flom every every hospital jn tho city The most heroic efforts of or the firemen fremen were vero impotent against the devouring element and the the whole middle portion porton of the sky was brilliantly bri- bri bril lanty illuminated by the tho tremendous blaze blazo Harrowing scenes were cre witnessed by those who were assembled in sight of the burning hotel One unknown man sprang from a window on 01 the third floor foor and was dashed to death on the tho sidewalk before the horrified horfed ey eyes s on of or the tho spec spectators lors This Thiel terrible scene was enacted on en the tho Sixth avenue side of or the building A moment later another man leaped from a window on the Foi side and was mangled mangled man man- to d death ath on tho the sidewalk Shorty Shortly afterwards two women jumped pc from windows windows windows win win- win win- dows on the Iho Sixth avenue side of the building Willing hands soon grasped th them nl up but they dead Their bodies at nt once removed to the morgue Thus already had four lives been sacrificed From Froni other windows windo of the doomed hotel women had leaped in their mad endeavor to escape from tho the llames lames and so far as known know none of them were killed outright The Tho ambulance s tn fir fir- ar- ar geons who were summoned as soon as the tho fire firo fre was discovered had more than they could do to attend to the burned and In Injured in- in lured people At At AtO 5 O the tho walls wals fell In and all al hope of rescuing any other unfortunates was at an an ane e end d. d A great number of thrilling experiences cures and had narrow escapes are arc reported ed One Oe of tho mo most moat t thrilling escapes of the night was ivas VIS that of a I young oung man named Noonan of Jersey City Noonan had been but recently married marred Saturday Saturday- night h ho he ca came camo e over to the tho city to c cel celebrate br te the happy o occasion casion with his friends and after atter a along along long and jovial season enson ho he was taken to the Hotel Royal loyal Hoal where vh ro he was snugly put to tobed tobed toted bed ted by bis his companions In a room rom on the tho th floor 1001 Noonan was wasp aw awakened ened from his bis sleep sleet by the shouts of fire anderies for help of ot the women omen and men For a moment mo me- mo ment mont he be was dazed but in I an instant he ho collected bis his scattered senses sense He HO looked out in tho the hall hal but there thero was no escape b there o l' l Ho lie I out of or the window and no ne ladder was near near him he be no ladder so with th tho confidence con con- coro of or an athlete swung himself from hisel tIe the window sill to window indo below belov and from one ono window to another he ho descended until he ho re th ground There Thero are ur ro various theories theore as to the tho duse cluse the of-the fire Cro but nothing certain Is known c r certin S i f I II I |