Awful Holocaust

New Yobk, Feb. 9.- A disaster appaling' in horror, bringing to mind the terrible occurrences in Park place, still fresh in the public mind, oeeurred in this city early Sundaj" morning. The Hotel Royal, that well-knovvn landmark which has stood for more than a quarter of a century at the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Fortieth street, was burned to the ground and a large number of people were burned, suffocated, and crushed in the ruins. Nbw York, Feb. 8. - Three more bodies were taken from the ruins of the burned Hotel Royal this morning - two men and a womau. llow many charrett and mangled bodies ara still buried beneath the debris is a question of horrible uncertainty. Besides the threo taken oxit live others have been recovered. The bodies of many otherr may lie hidden in the mass oí eaming' wreckage which chascas up the wide spaee between the blaekenei a ad disfigured walls. From a eareful examination of the hotel reister and journal which was furnished by Night Clerk Underwood the number of persons in the building when the fire broke out was 152. Of these eight are known to be dead. Eighty-one were rescued by the firemen and citizens before the walls collapsed and sixty-one are still missing. Among those who were rescued from the flaming building are twenty-four who are more or les seriously burned and bruised. Three of these are at Bellevue hospital and there is one each at the New York and Presbyterian hos j pitáis. The others have been eared for j by friends at hotels or at their houses. It is not improbable that a number of those wlio are still among the missing may have esciiped the frightful fate wbich so many are kuown to have met, but the thought of the possible loss is appalling'. Until the great heap of bricks and mort ar, and half-consumed beams and rafters which are packed tightly into the death pit have been removed no one can teil wliat the awf ui grave will disclose. There ave immense erowds around the ruins and the work of digging for human remains is watehed with eager interest, üne hundred laborers are engiiged in the work. It is a difticult matíer toremove the outer surface of the ruins and get at the interior. The body of the woman found was discovered on the top floor. There was a nicely chased gold ring' on the left hand, which was simt tight and could not be openecl. The body was so badly burned that the only way it was ascertained that t was that of a woman was by thesize and the general structure of the frame.