Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-12-15

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the remains were wrapped up in blankets
and taken off in wagons, TO be arranged
for burial by physicians.
FURTHER SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
Sad and shocking incidents continue 10
come to light. There have been several in
stances in which friends identified remains
ms belonging to their loved ones TO after
ward find they were mistaken, so slight
are the clews by which recognition is eff
fected. One old man asserted at the morguo
Friday, that he had on Thursday identified
the bodies of five of his relatives in the old
market on Adams street, and that, when
he returned to the MARKET with the coro-
ner's permission 10 remove them TO their
homes, they had disappeared. Two mar
Iied ladies, cousins to each other, who lived
in the same house, on returning from Wis
it to the country together, found their hus-
bands had gone to the theatre never TO re-
turn. Several of the victims went into the
theatre by mere accident as they were
passing. This was the case with Mr.. Otis,
the New York broker, and boy of II who
LEFT his house, telling his father he was going
to walk down street short distance with a
friend. A seafaring man, who was spend
ing six weeks vacation in the city, went
10 the theatre, as he said, little thinking of
the final significance of the words, "for the
first and last time." a girl of II went with
her lover, 10 whom she was TO be married
within a month, but they were both lost,
and she was identified by her engagement
ring. Some of the cases of bereavement
Ioe1,-
lost her son by drowning, a year ago, now
loses her remaining son and her husband.
Three brothers, Scotchmen, leave only a
mother and sister of the family. Another
young man was the only support of his
mother. One man leaves seven children.
a servant girl who was sent with two chill
dren was found with one of the little ones
on each arm. One man was found in a
kneeling posture, with his hands casped
as if in prayer. The disinlegration of the
bodies is shown by the finding of Two
Jumps of flesh, which a physician pronounc-
ed to be human hearts, aud near them a
woman's foot, while Two boxes of detached
limbs and fragments were taken from The
ruins.
BRAVERY OF THE ACToRs-DEATH OF MUIR
DoCH AND BURROUGHS.
AS soon as the panic seized the audience,
the four actors, Miss Claxton, Mr.. Studey,
Mr.. Murdoch and Mr.. Burroughs, turned
to the audience, and Mr.. Studley and Mr..
Murdoch, radidly advancing to the foot
lights, and raising their voices 10 the high
est pitch, called upon the terror-stricken
mass to remain seated, or, if they left the
theater, to leave it in an orderly manner;
and through the whole of the awful scene
that followed with the burning fragments
OF scenery falling around them, these four
actors maintained most perfect GOODNESS
and selfpossessiop, and did all that could
be done 10 allay The frenzy of the strug-
Cling crowd. As soon as the rush and the
panic became general the actors left the
stage and sought to save themselves. Miss
Claxton and Mr.. SIudley escaped, but Muir
doch and Burroughs tried 10 save some of
their personal effects and persisted in the
flames. Their bodies were found Thurs
day night and it was apparent that The two
actors persisted at one time.
TIE FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS.
The funeral of the unidentified dead and
those belonging 10 families unable TO per-
form suitable rites took place on Saturday,
in the face of the terrible cold and wind.
All the bodies, numbering about 100, in the
morgue were removed TO the temporary
dead-house in the old market, and we're
placed in collins; aud &c hearses and I'M
dertakers wagons, many OF them contain
ing two bodies each, formed in line. The
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had been countermanoed by Gen. Dakin
because of the intensely cold and windy
weather, but considerable number of the
soldiers voluntarily formed squad under
Dlkin's command. The streets were dense
ly crowded with peaple, who, with those
making up the procession, had TO wait for
some time while the preparations were go
ing on, and suffered much from the cold.
The procession started from Schemerhorn
and Flatbush streets. The procession pass
ed through Flatbush avenue to 9Th aveLue,
to Sd street, to 4th avenue, along thence TO
Goth street, and up 18th street 10 Greenwood
cemetery. At the burial ground Rev. DR..
Noah Schenck read The Episcopal burial
service, Rev. A. p. Putnam of the Unita-
ran church of Our Savior delivered an ad-
dress, and Rev. A. Stewart Walsh, Bap-
list, and Rev. Joseph Odell participated in
The exercises, dirges being sung by two or
three German societies. The bells OF the
city were tolled during the progress of the
procession, aud business was entirely sus-
pended all The afternoon, emblems OF
mourning being displayed throughout the
city, SO far as the violent gale would allow.
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the actors, II. S. Hitchcock (Murdoch) and
Claude Burroughs, took plare at the church
of the TRANSPORTATION, "lhe little church
around the corner" in New York, on sun
day, Rev. DR.. Houghton officiating. Thous-
ands of people assembled outside the
church, notwithstanding the bitter cold
and tho building was crowded.
FORMER DISASTERS OF THE SAME SORT.
This disaster is the greatest of The kind
that ever occurred in this country in loss
of life, but 1000 persisted in the burning OF
theatre at Saragossa, Spain, in l772, as
many in an Italian theater in 1894, 500 al
the Palais Royal in Paris 10 1881, 800 in an
Amsterdam playhouse in the same yeai
with the Saragossa catastrophe, and 1900
the largest number on record, in the burn
ing of a cathedral at Santiago, Chill, in
1868. The Holyoke, Mass, disaster of a
year and half ago will at once occur tC
many of our readers as possessing many
points of similarity, where 70 persons los
their lives in a panic caused by the burn
ing of the French Catholic church. Thea
tres are particularly liable to be lost in this
way from the number of lights used In