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The Willimantic Journal
Willimantic, Windham County, Connecticut
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On Sunday, a fire destroyed the Hotel Royal at Sixth Avenue and Fortieth Street in New York City, causing an unknown number of deaths by burning, jumping, or falling from windows. The building's wooden interior and stove heating made it highly vulnerable, despite fire escapes.
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How many persons perished, either by fire, or jumping, or falling from windows is not known exactly. It is enough that such a building was allowed to be used as a hotel. It was a brick shell with wooden elevator shafts, wooden stairways and heated by air tight stoves in nearly all the rooms. All the safety appliances in the line of fire escapes possible could not have averted the disaster.
But a well built, fire proof hotel would have averted it.
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Sixth Avenue And Fortieth Street, New York City
Event Date
Sunday
Outcome
how many persons perished, either by fire, or jumping, or falling from windows is not known exactly.
Event Details
Destruction by fire of the Hotel Royal, a brick shell with wooden elevator shafts, wooden stairways and heated by air tight stoves in nearly all the rooms. All the safety appliances in the line of fire escapes possible could not have averted the disaster.