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til I bland Daily Argu VOL, XI, NO. 90 I10CK21SLAND, MONDAY, FEBKUAKY 8, 189 Rock I Single Coplee 5 Cent Per Week 1XH Cento , it SELL-'Elfl-QUICK PANT SALE B PI if (Pa i?sa 11 fes We place on sale today and for the balance ol this week 2,500 pairs of pants, divided in five lots on five different tables; and if you are in need of a pair of pants to make your suit last until you are ready to purchase a spring suit, low is Mr Chance Table One-Will sell for Pants worth $.2, $.50, Table Two--Will sell for Pants worth $2, $2.2? end 2.50. Table Three-Will sell for Pants worth $2.75, and 55. JO. Table Four-Will sell for Pants worth $?.0f $4, $4.50 and $. Table Five-Will sell for Pants worth $5.50, $6.50 and $7. 99c $1.39. $1.99. 82.99. $3.99. Positively as Advertised. THE LOW DO SAX & RICE, Proprietors. N Underselling Everybody On Everything. Money CHEERiULLY Refunded. tm, rrt " v. AWAKENED TO DIE. A Score of Victims of a Gotham Holocaust. HEAETEENDING SCENES AT A FIEE. Flumes Take Possession of tlio Hotel Royal While the tiucst Are linitml in Sleep The Trapped Inmates Their Ks cape Cut Off by the Stairways, Crowd the Windows Imploring for Succor Sonic Iare the Fearful Leap to the Street and leath Others Swallowed l"p In the Final Crash When the Walls Col lapse Twenty to Twenty-five Dead and Many Injured. Xkw Yokk. Feb. 8. A disaster para lelling in liorror anil probably exceeding in loss of life the terrible occurrence in Park Place, the remembrance of which is still fresh in the public mind, occurred in this city yesterday morning. The Hotel Koyal, at Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, was burned to the ground and n large number of people were burned, Mitlocated by .smoke, or crushed to death in the ruins. About 100 were reported missing yesterday morning, but many of the guests were "transients'" and may have escaped and gone to their homes. They are not likely to report their escape, which will make it very difficult to get at the real horror of the disaster. Discovery of the T'lamcs. It was a few minutes after 3 o'clock when the flames were first discovered. They never had better fuel. The building was com nosed of several old structures, all amalgamated into the Hotel Koyal years ago. So far as can Iks learned the flames kindled in the shaft of the elevator in the, basement, at about the middle of the building. A janitor was at work in the basement at the time and was sitddcnlv frightened by the flashing of flames. He rushed to the street and notified the police man on the Sixth avenue corner, who sent ill an alarm, while the janitor rushed back into the building to arouse the sleeping guests. Aflame All Over in Fifteen Minutes. Id fifteen minutes the whole of the six- story structure was abl i.e. Flames shot out of every window in the front of the house, and people in the street could see persons rushing frantically to and fro on every lloor of Hie burning building. One, two, three alarms went out in rapid succession, and the streets and avenues were soon filled with fire engines and trucks. Other alarms brought ambulances from every hospital in the city. People leaped out of the windows to the side walks and were gathered up unconscious. burned, maimed and mangled by the fire men and carried to places of safety. The most heroic efforts of the firmcn were im potent against the devouring element. Leaped from the Windows to Death. An immense crowd gathered to view the tragedy that was progressing. The win dows were filled with people in their night clothing, making piteous and heart-rend ing appeals to the people below for help, while behind them was ft great sea of flame. Indeed, these unfortunate beings seemed to be nctually.in the fire. Harrow ing scenes wire witnessed by those who were assembled in sight of the burning ho tel. One unknow'n man sprang from a window on the third floor, and was dashed to death on the sidewalk. In a few min utes this same scene was repeated in view of the horror-stricken multitude, another mau and two women leaping to certain death. Others More Fortunate. From other windows at the same time dozens of persons were leaping, preferring death that way if death it. must be to death in the flames. Fortunately these added none to the list of killed, but bruises anil broken bones were numerous, and ambulances and surgeons were kept very busy taking care of the victims. The hotel burned like a tinder box. The flam; ; raged fiercely, but above all could lie hi. .id the cries fin-help from the un fortunates penned in the building. Fire men and spectators helped to rescue the imprisoned guests and employes. Many were taken from windows where they had sought refuge from the flames and the firemen dared sjnoke and flames to save life. Climax of the Holocaust. Meanwhile the flames were eating out the heart of the building and rapidly de stroying the woodwork that braced the walls. Finally the grand catastrophe took place. While at several windows could be seen frantic people crying for help that wus impossible, a column of sparks fehot tip into the air, a rumbling crash was heard and a groan went up from the on lookers as the walls tumbled into ruins, and the holocaust had reached its limit. Those a moment before seen at the win dows pleading for help fell back with the walls and were smothered up in the flames that burst out and leaped skyward for a few minutes, fiercer than ever, and then succumbing to the torrent of water that was poured upon them, gradually died away. It had done its worst; but what was the worst? WHAT IS UNDER THE DEBRIS? A Strong Force of Men at Work Trying to Answer That Ouestion. The fire had spent its force at 5:15 a. m.f for there was practically nothing com bustible left in the shell. Then the scene surveyed by the firemen, the police and the citizens was one of complete and sorrowful wreck. Ambulances had carried away the injured, and those who had escaped un hurt had gone to the hotels or to the homes of friends. All that remained was a smok ing, blackened mound of debris that rose to a height of twenty-five feet. And un der the debris what would the men set to work immediately to clear away the wreck what would they find there? This ques tion stayed the crowd, and all yesterday there was a throng of people in Bryant park opposite the ruins, and around all the approaches to the demolished hotel, watch ing while one hundred able firemen la bored in the smoking heap anxious, yet fearful of what each upturned heap might brine forth. The First (iruesomu Ilincovery. It was nt 11 o'clock that the first body was found. It was a horrible sight to i e liol 1, burned, blackened, ami bruised. It was Lurried a'wav to the miagiie. where after much difficulty it was KU nlitiej as the body of Harvey I.'. Icvy, a member of the firm of Strauss & Freeimtn, 707 llroad Way. lk-sitles Levy i.ndtlie lour who were picked up dead ou the pawmcnt as the re sult of leaping from the windows therv were recovered from the debris yesterday two unknown women and two unknown men, one of tie latter having evidently dived headforem.t from some elevated point, as his head was smashed to pieces. This made eight known dead by sundown yesterday. This morning 100 men undei Contractor Galloway were put to work, and it is expected the fearful work of tha lire will soon be known. Some Anthentic Figures. During yesterday afternoon, Fire Mar shall Mitchell had an interview with Meares, the proprietor of the hotel. From him it was learned that in the hotel at the time the fire occurred were 133 persons. Just how many of these escaped it is dif ficult to say. At 6 o'clock the police of tha Thirtieth street police station gave the following as the official list of those known to have been saved: P. Taylor, AV. P. Pierce. Frederick Ulhmann, II. G. Thomp kins, W. G. Andereid, Jr., Mrs. Knapp, W. G. Buchanan, E. S. Fonday, Knpert Tenant, J. M. Powers, M. Brown, K. P. Kupetdon, Blodgett E. Ball, C. Loper, C. White, T. G. Hardman, W. F. Scott, I-angdon Sweet, G. S. Maguire, J. E. farcy, Mrs. E. Titus; Mr. Gibson, of Newport; ISrigs andwife, M. .T. livy, Phelps, wife and child; Simon Uhlmann, Mrs. F. Uhlnian, Mr. and rs. 'Winter, Mr. Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Kussey, Martin Yardman; F. Olsen, porter; Underwood, night clerk: Harding SJioenfeld, Colonel John Taylor, Mrs. Anderson; Kate Reilly, chambermaid; Mike Cuiley. porter. V ere All Permanent C.ncsts. The above were all permanent guests, ami the number is forty-six. There were eleven employes saved, making in all fifty-seven. The list (if transient guests is a long one, but the register is missing, and even if it were found it would give no clue to the identity of the missing, as it is thought that many of the transients were registered under assumed names. Thi n again it is more than likely that whoever of the tran fcients were not caught in the holocaust would fpiiei ly go away and never report. This would undoubtedly lie the case with those registered under assumed names. List of the Known Injured. The injured are as follows: C. W. Kline, lawyer, llazelton. Pa., partially asphyxiated ami burned: alter 1.. lates, guest of Hotel Koyal, burns ami contu sions; Isabella Meares, wife of proprietor af hotel, slightly burned on head and body nnd contusions on back and side, sprained inkle; Hcrln-rt Harding, enmneer at hotel, ribs broken and contusions, while bravely trying to reach and rescue a woman: Kich ard Meares. proprietor of hotel, left hand and arm badly hurt; unknown man, burns nnd contusions; unknown woman, uncon scious from smoke; unknown man, con tusions anil burned on body. An Kstimate as to the LoM. Police Sergeant Cooper, of the West Thirtieth street station house, said last night that he believed that not more than :wentv-five people were killed and six in jured. '-We have searched the ruins well,1 he said, 'and do not believe that there can be more than fifteen bodies in the ruins. We believe that, out of the IT,;) inmates of the hotel 1 40 or more found refuge in the liedney house, the Hotel -Met ropole, and the apartment houses in the vicinity." SOME VERY THRILLING ESCAPES. How a liriilrcrnnin I'sril Ills Agility V. i!h SH inK l;He I. There were dozens of tl.iilling escapes, :md one of the most remarkable was that nf a young man named Noonan, of Jersey Cjty. Noonan hail been recently married. Sat urday night he came over to t'lis city to celebrate t lie happy occasion with his friends, and c;er a long and jovial season he was t.-. en to the Hotel Koyal, where he was sn igly put in bed by his companions in a ro .:i on the fourth floor. He was awakened frmu his sleep by the shouts of fire ami c:ies for help of women and men. For a moment he was dazed, but in an instant he collected his scattered senses. He looked out in the hall, but there was no escape there. He looked out of t he window and no ladder was near him, so he, with the confidence nf an athlete, swung himself from the window sill to the window below and from one window to another he descended until he reached the ground. An Indiana Man's iond l.uck. Mr. I.. M. Sehoonfuld went to the Yen dome after the lire. He is the owner of the Sehoonfeld stock farm at Kockford, Ind., and made it a habit to stop at the Koyal w hen in town. He prolmbly fared lictter than anyone in the place. Mr. Sehoonfeld occupid a room on the ground Boor of the hotel back of the office. He thinkslhat he slept through a good portion of the fire, but when he awoke he found escape through the hall cut off. His room, however, overlooked a court yard, and then packing all his lielongings in a trunk, he tossed the trunk through the window into the yard and ther. followed it himself. lie lost nothing but an overcoat. Saved liy Police Officers. Sergeant Ward and Patrolman Phillips went into a room on the fourth floor and took Walter H. Phelps and his wife in safety down a ladder. Officer Phillips suc ceeded in saving Mrs. Samuel Knapp, of Chicago, who was unable to save herself, and was about to leap from a window ou the third floor. Mr. Frederick Uhlmann, a well-known dealer in hops, has been a gnest of the hotel for years. He woke out of a sound sleep to find the hall full of smoke, but after two attempts grujied hi way down-stairs in his night shirt, and barefooted. Some oue gave him an over coat, and with that about shoulders he walked to auot her hotel. He lost t!"2, 900 in ca-sh besides several checks and all his baggage. Coolly I'tiltxed the Fire Ileape. William C. Thompkias, of thiscity, was a transient guest. 1'e was aroused by the cries of lire, and finding escape by the ttairs impossible he coolly packed his things together and lowered himself to the ground by means of the rope lire escape which he found iu the room. When on the ground he gathered up his effects, which he had previously t hrown out of t he window, and went elsew here to finish his "'v- .sor ni ivr caugntcr Julia, who occupied a room on the third Coor at the coiner of Fortieth street and ?'li avenue. ind w ho registered from Fier.iington, X. J., on Saturday, were res cued by a policeman aud a fireman, who carried them down a ladder. They lost all their clothing save their night dresses, which they had on. A l.ist of Missing. Thi se are the missing so f ir as known: Irs. Slate: Mj-.-.. ii-ley, housekeeper; .!-,. Corye, Mrs. May anil child, Mrs. Van N',or..-a, C. li;;Mcr; raiivi:; Mrs. Hender ).i, i).-.ier, Colo.: Mis- Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Lewi-, .Mr. and Mrs. (Juiid, William Armstrong, Charles Close, Thomas Kennedy and four chambermaids. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Adjutant General McClelland, of Pennr sylvania, is dead. Mrs Catherine Sharp, of Philadelphia, is 1 !4 years old, and all that ails her is that Bhe is slightly deaf. Au unknown woman was probably fataV ly hurt and a tramp killed in a wrecV on the Burlington road near Wymore. JCeb. Director General Davis, of the World' Fair, has declared that all applications for sp;iee ought to be presented bv July 1, A consignment of exhibits for th Columbian exposition the first rdcelfed from a foreign country arrived at Chi cago Jan. 2i from Japan. - The six-day -four-hours-a-day-go-as-youv please walk at Sioux City has ended, Ilerty breaking the world's record by walking ISS miles 14 laps. Cotton is so low- that it is having a eras ing effect on southern farmers. Onenatfted Hall, of Coffee county, Ala., set his crop on fire ami then committed suicide. Edward Pardie. a farmer living iu .Tones' Xeck, Del., has been hiccoughing for sixteen weeks, anil it is lielieved that he will die, notwithstanding the cough, is less violent now. A report fr.itn Ho-um says that Armour, Minis ami Swift, the '"big three"' packers, have signed an agreement not to move their business from the Chicago Union, stockyards u.r fifteen years from July I, ls.n. George W. K. Griffith hasheca appointed receiver of the Western Farm Mortgage Loan nnd Trn-l company, at Denver. The attorney ol the company says that nobody w ill lose a c nt by the company's embar rassment. Senor Carvaiho, head of the Portugnese customs system, has been dismissed from his office and is threatened with impeach ment bceause while minister of finance ho advanced i:i,0,nl,tK francs to a railway without authority of law. It is a cold day when some, one of Xijnr York city's wealthy men does not receive visit from a crank. The latest to bo thus honored is August Belmont. His visitor's name is Xixon, he wanted money, scared the womeu of the household, and was finally run in by a policeman. Tudge Tuley, of Chicago, has sustained the Crerar will, by which Chicago was to get a magnificent foundation for a library, -and which relatives of the late Mr. Crerar tried to break. Chicago will consequently get the hgacy unless the supreme court re verses Tu ley's decision, which is said not . to be probable. - It is stated that Miss Lou Xichols, a teacher in the Carlyle. Ills., public schools, while giving her pupils a lesson in loyalty . declared t hat jensioners were paupers who ' had to swear to a "qnart of lies'1 to get -J-their pension--; and the G. A. It. ot that section is resolving that .Miss Xichola is persona lion gn.ta. Miss Xichols denies the statement. Twenty-five i r thirty employes of tha Xew York custom house recently lost their official heads, and it is officially stated t fiat t lie reason therefor was that while there was not sufficient proof to make ;i case against any one of them in court, it was morally certain that all were guilty of general inefficiency, bribetaking intemperance, etc. illtaui II. King, LL. D., a prominent ind popular member of the Chicago bar, '.s dead, aged j. the Loral Mar Wet. t-fli:.' U'.ck Island Daily and Weekly Aroi s, Hock Inland, 111., Feb. 8, IBM ( OKA'S, TC. Whcat-sSftftle. c'rn X", 't. S-lc. Kye 7!sl-. il.itfi-,.'Siri..,Wc Bran s5cKrrw, Shipp'iitT f 1.00 ner cwt. llav Timo li. SI2&S13; pr.-ilrie, 17 i 1 1 : clover $10; baled. S;i 50. rRonuep.. Bnttcr 'lirtn choice.- )c: creamerr, Ei-irs Fresh, fflc: racked 1'ouliry chickens. HHitJ',; tcrkty-, lie dack, U(ic: gcse. Me. FKCIT AMI VEfiBTAlil.ES. Applc f a.aaji $'- 75 per tbi. Potatoes . On i onu siPissc Turnips l.'ijJaOc. ' LIVESTOCK. C.itt Bctcliers pay for corn fed steer. SSic; cows and heifer. 23;ic; calves, 3'4;4c. Hops-4'c Sheep 4,i-5. SI mosses LIU I I I WHENYOU uAn I DM AW mm PUREST AND BEST AT LESS.THAN HALF- THE PRICE OF OTHER BRANDS. pQUHDSp4HALVES.in4Q"ARTERS SO' D IN CANS. ONLY, a i;:. F l - Hi fi : 14 f it "V; at ir in .in V : ':? t l?v !J- f) US ii i i i ' f I il fit? 11