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Nkw York, Fob. 9,—Whon the firemen and laborers will finish their grew-Home tank among tho charred timbers that mark whore stood the Hotel Itoyal is Mill n matter of pure guessing. As the vurch among tho ruins goes on more bodies, or parts of what was once living Immunity, are brought to light.Before daylight this morning four more bodies had been taken oat. Tint list before day dawned had been swelled to lit, and yet what it U supposed will prove the most fruitful spot for tho searchers had not yet hud a pick stuck into it. That part is where tho elevator shaft was. A heap of bricks, twisted iron and hulf charred rubbish marks tho spot, and beneath the little mound of ruins the firemen expect to find close to a dozen bodies.At 1.55 o'clock tho seventeenth body was discovered wedged in among tho debris under what had been tho hotel office. One of the workmen stated that it was the body of u woman. Ail the bodies taken out thin morning were found in the cellar of the old building on tlm corner, find about under where the restaurant hud been.Untoss the bodies lying in the morgue a so identified within a very short time it will be impoiaibio to do so. They are already beginning to decompose. Tho content** of box No. 7 were identified as A. A Townsend of 114 Church street, New' Haven, by Mr. K. E. Haiti win last evening. The contents of box No. 0 wore identified as Mary Hog Icy by Dr. Edward Fagan of 363 Sixth avenue, who hud put in the false set of upper teeth worn by her.This morning, at 10 oVlock, two women dressed in mourning and two men told Keeper White that they were looking for Sarah Blake, aged 50 years, who occupied n room on the fourth tloor in the front. Mbs Nellie Kendall of Humville, Mass., was one of tho women. She said that Mrs. Blake was her aunt and that she worked in a hut factory in Stamford, Conn. Her homo was in Sin Iduiivillo, Mass. tiho cnine to the city on Saturday afternoon and accompanied a Mr. Ula**ford, who was expecting her, to the theatre. After the performance he h»ok her to the hotel and procured a room for her. That was about midnight. She has not been seen since. CUurlc* Blake, one of the purty, the brother of Sarah, Identified the con-cntU of box No. fi as his hi.-ter by u gold chased ring which was found ’on the third finger on Hie left band, and the false teeth. They then loft to make arrangements fur the removal of the body.The remains of 11. J. Levy were removed yesterday. Samuel Clmrlcs, n hall boy at tho flotel Jioyul, called yesterday afternoon and thought that the woman in box No. 1 was Mrs. Lewis, who had room US and is missing, and the man h box No. *1 lie (bought was her husband, who is a bookmaker at Outtenberg. lie could not positively Identify them, however. As was shown lator ho was mistaken. Photographs of the bodies in boxes Nos. 2 and 4 were taken by Keeper Finnegan.
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Wilmington Delaware Gazette and State Journal
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1892
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