Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-12

have their skulls crushed in and limbs dis
torted and broken. From Others the bowels
protrude- horrifying sight. But why con-
tinue the CHASTITY list? So far only a
dozen persons have been recorded as
having escaped wounded, but with life, from
the catastrophe. The rest are all dead, and all
this fearful result Is due to the criminal care
lesness, negligence, and lack of the ordinary
precautions of safety. The week after the
Nice fire the police authorities ordered that
Director tanner should have reserve OF pet
rOleum lights in all the passages and galleries
in case of the extinction of the gas, that suf-
flcient number of water-plugs should be in the
flies and that wire gauge curtain should be
placed before the drop scene to be let down in
case of fire on the stage. Six months have
passed since the order, and fire breaks out in
the scenery on the stage How the fire orig
mated is immaterial, and nobody seems to
know really how it did originate, whether by
the overturning of a parafiine lamp on the
stage or by the carelesness OF a man lighting
lights in the flies, or whether piece of seen
cry was driven by draught, for which the
theatre is renowned. over the blaze of the au-
ditOrium.
EVERY PROBATION.
for the security of the audience was there ex-
cept the drill and dcipline of the attendants,
who, with director, are resonsible for the
catastrophe. The audience was helpless. The
bravest man could do nothing. The shouts
of Director tanner to the audience, endeavor-
lug to quiet them by saying there was no
danger, reads to day ike the act of man de-
prived of his senses. The calmest head, the
bravest heart, could have done nothing to
same those nearest and dearest to him. It
was almost impossible to save anyone but
ones self. Several OF those who escaped are
to-day mad med. Last night about midnight
a young men, belonging, by his dress, to the
upper classes, was found in a side street near
the burning theatre ,bareheaded and singed, in
sanity expressed in his stare, and crying out in
cessantly a single word, "Amalie-Amalie. !"
He held a strip of fur. worn by ladies around
the neck, Historically to his bosom. "Where
do you live? Have courage" said compass
slonate bystander But his only answer was
'Amalie, Amalie. 1 sprang down bnt she is
being burnt within. She is being burnt with
n'
Two bank officials and twenty members of
the fruit exchange are missing. A score Of
medical students are among the victims.
THE MAJORITY OF THE DEAD
are hand workers, clerks, and people of very
limited means. Tha Vienna fire department
proved itself supremely inefficient. There was
only one fire engine, giving stream scarcely
larger than finger, and it could not reach
the upper portion of the house. The hand en-
gines were only fed from water butts filled
from barrels driven to the ground. There
were no fire escapes, and the ladders came
late on the ground, and when they arrived
much Tins was lost in planting them. There
was great display of military, who kept or
der But of efficient firemen and apparatus
there was a lamentable lack.
Among the victims is one entire family of
seven. The father arrived home on Thursday
after six months absense, and celebrated his
birthday by taking all to the theater. Many
bodies lack their hands or feet, which were
torn off in the struggle for life One beauti-
full young lady lost both arms. Tonight only
pieces of bodies can be recovered.
THE FIRE STILL BURNS
in the upper loggia. Some corpses are crushed
almost flat. Among the bodies found were
those of mother and child seated, embracing
each other on the steps, leading to the second
gallery. The stairs to the third and fourth
galleries were found barricaded with such a
mass of OvercOats, umbrellas, jackets, shawls,
and bonnets that the workmen had to clear
these away before they could proceed to the
left side. The third gallery had a few victims,
one man having the presence of mind to main
tain order at the open door, and after entering
the dark passage he lighted wax-taper and
led the people out of danger. The burial of the
victims takes place on Sunday. The number
mOurned will be at least 500, per haps more.
Consul General Weaver assures me tonight
that no American students are missing. In
the narrow stairway between the second and
third galleries the firemen discovered
A CONFUSED MASS OF HUMAN BODIES
writhed together. The corpses taken out of
the galleries were so mangled, so entWiued,
that it is not doubted that the unfortunates at
last struggled and fought each other in order
to gain the door. Three of the corpses could
not be separated, and were borne away togeth-
er. The scenes descriptive of the bodies await
ing recognition in various places are too fear
full to repeat. Many of the dead appear to be
ladies of the better classes. On the fingers of
one are brilliant diamonds. Most of the bod
les are simply without human shape. On
many the legs, arms and hands are wanting.
The scene outside the burning theater,
wives seeking their husbands, children look
ing for their parents, and parents looking for
their children, was heartrending.