The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-20 00:00:00

SCINI IN TRI CrIICTINIT.

The funeral ceremony for the victims of the terrible
fire o mmenced a Mon lay with • high mass and
requiem in St. stephe'. t 'hurch.
Long before the church s 'wk.* had begun, the people
of Vieuoa Lbw. ge I to the cemetery, showed five miles
outei le the city. Ju.t outaide the arc ides, on the
green sward, stood 160 o Ana, also forming a semi-
circle. They were all of white metal. adorned with
brass feet and crows, and on ea .11 was edited a num-
ber and • wreath to lay tm the top of each. It wads a
most pathetic .cene. the soldiers ani policemen doing
duty on all sits, and the public awestricken in the
prewence of those glistening coffins, on which the rays
of the winter's sun played. But the most IX -aim;
spectacle was to come. A long rote of the clergy . f
all confeasim $ appea:e I. prece led by a silver croes--
Homan Cab.diiw, Protestant, Jew., and Greek rie,t.,
for once peacefully assembled, intent uon the same
object, that ..f b eutin‘ the remake' of the dead aid
coos° ing the sorrowil g.
The first speech was made by the Mayor of Vieuns.
In ample. heartfelt words be promised that the
cmon..n grave .1 the unknown who wore buried th re
eh. ril I he adorned by am, wheat, awl that the day of
their death should be c ournemorde I every y.ar.
While the 'psyche. were beio, mad the rely i ne of
the victims c .mained in the coffins appr 'ached the.*
t . take a lee t farewell. Tne scenes wrich occurrei
here are beyond the p river of description. Ihto the
pe....efal YAW ni,llUltl .11 the de., wine., fry upro.e
crie. an I terrible sounds of anguiah. Ihe suddenne.•
with which this g. ief struck the people inuat have
unnerve I them in an extra e Hoary manntr. Men
called aloud for their dead a. if they hoped for an
answer. Suddenly, when the singing of • Protestant
choir &anted, • terrific scream of " Fire, fire I" WAS
heard, foil .wed by inarticulate sounds so dreadful
that the weaker among the audience covered their
• eare with their hands. The cry of 'firs" and the
screams lasted a quatter ..f an hour. They came
from • woman. There could n larger he a doubt she
had gone m wi. She was borne away by elght police-
men, and her livid face, her eyes starting out of their
sockets, hr wild gesticul Woos, and her horrible
screams wee awful.

The glare I r-pired for them 162, buried M the
expense of the city, I. sixty yar I, In and bite.°
wide. and the cams were lowered into it by three
op mings, the iloneral Commw.iling in Vienna and
the May-r throwing earth upon them. The ceremony
ended here, Luc the grealer put of the public rema;ned
in the cemetery until nightfall, to see all the bodies
burled.

hub.criptions flow in quickly. Among others the
Land. rhank has subscrithqi 15.000 3 din., and the
Austrout Gas G mpsny. 5.000 fl rins. The Emperor
has Lined me,l the bill p due-d by the two house",
granting the sum of 50,000 II dine in all f the sur-
vivors. An inve-tigati .n of the eirminstivmes attend.
leg the cat sAtrophe is being made by the Tribunal for
Criminal Offence., apart from that instiEutei by the
police.
King Humbert and Queen IHagherite have Idwarded
the sum of B,ooof. in gold for the fund in aid of the
survivors.

Among thioie who manage I to escape were Prince
Gustave of S -Womar 00l litron Buichann and
his wife. They were in ore of the pit boxes. A very
courageous rescue wai effected by Baron Ludwig
Rosenfeld. He was groping his way out during the
panic, when he stumbled against the body of a 11,tle
girl about ten years old. He stopped and picked her
uo and succeeded in saving her life. The baron is only
16 year* old.
By a curious coincidence the fatal firs at Vienna took
place at the Caine hour of the same day of the same
month am the fire at the Cathedral at Chicago some
year. Mo.
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The—prooess of disinfecting the ruins heti been corn-
pieta'. Bricks, plamter, &a, kept falling from the
crumbling walla awl ha I t, he carted awe" from time
to time before the men could go on wi,h their work.
Th, b.. lee as tb .v were dbclosed •era dieinfented,
plac-d in metal c Au., ad c.diveyeti to the cemetery.
A ret,,e I merchant, Auguat t;tiel, has eubecribed
125,000f1. (ab nit £I0,000) to the relief fund. The same
geutlein mama headed the list of the Nate Preie
Press with 10,000f1