Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-12
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| Assecisssd Press Telegrams to the Dali,
Kennebec Journal
TINE VIENNA HOLOCAUST
More Terrible Than Was First Re
ported.


vienna, Dec. Q.
Midpight-The extent of the calamity has
| hitherto been much understatcd. One thou
sand one hundred and thirty persons are an
nounced at the police bureau as missing, and
assuming that many of these turn up, 1t IS
| feared that the total loss will not be much
less than 1000 persons. 1t is now probable
that there we're 600 in the fourth gallery. All
the persons in the third row of the parquet
persisted. Some persons who entered the
theatre q few minutes after the fire was dis
covered, remarked at the time that compar-
ativelv few escaped. The theatre holds p
500 Every place was occupied. except the
parauet and boxes, consequently the total loss
NAV be found to be nearly 1000.
Three hundred and sixty tickets were is
sued for the fourth gallery seats for last
nights performance. OF these about fifty
have been found. They had made their es-
cape from the inside only to meet death by
suffocation in the passageway, which had no
exit The rest were up to o'clock this af-
ternoon seen lying within the fatal gallery,
vast barracades of human bodies. About
o'clock, the fourth gallery fell in. and the
hremen are carrying out Jumps of charred
bodies, without form and far beyond the pos
sibility Of recognition. Who these victims
are will not be known till their relatives an
nOunce them missing.
Statement of a New York gentlemen Mr..
Brown of the firm of Brown Brothers Co.
Of New York, who with his wife and entire
family visited the Ring Theatre on Thursday
afternoon, at the matinee concert, and there
fore left the theatre about an hour before the
cstastrophy, says that the stairways, narrow
and winding, leading from the lobby to the
parquet seats, were scarcely wide enough for
nd hat ah had e1 mfr arriy
ing in the open air again never to take his
family into such death-trap again.
The difficulty of escaping even after leav-
ing the auditorium, may be gathered from
the narrative Of young man who had seat
in one Of the galleries. lie says the galleries
were quite full. The American medical stu
dents, of whom there one hundred and
fifty in Vienna. and who usually frequent the
moderate priced places, seem to have kept
away altogether on the fatal night, for not
one is reported as missing, although six
German and Hungarian fellow students are
among the dead.
New YORK, Dec. 10.
Among the names of those identified as
being lost in the Vienna fire, is that of Mr..
Carr, said to have been an American.
LONDON, Dec. 10.
A Vienna dispatch to the Daily News says
Count Taafe, President of the Austrin Min
istry, and several archdukes, assisted the
sufferers at the fire. In one passage of the
theatre, without an outlet. forty persons lost
their way, and being unable to return were
suffocated. Emperor Francis Joseph has
subscribed 25, 900 forms for the relief of the
sufferers"
VIENNA, Dec. 10.
On account of the danger of the walls fall
ing, the work of removing the bodies from
ruins has been suspended until supports have
been erected. In the Reichstadt today, Count
Taafe, President of the Council, said rigor-
Gus measures would be taken against any one
proved guilty of culpable negligence. He
presented 4 credit of ESQ, 900 for the suffer
ers, which was voted. The government has
ordered two policemen to go to each theatre
an hour before the commencement of the
performance to see that all proper precautions
have been taken to guard against fire. The
report that the number of missing persons Is
1900 Is certainly an exaggeration as the
theatre was only capable of holding 1850, and
some portions of it were empty. At one
o'clock this afternoon, the stair case on the
left side collapsed.
Fire again broke out this evening at the
corner of Ring, close to the theatre ruins.
The engines Immediately suhdued the flames.
The funeral of the victims will take place
Sunday. Private interments will commence
Sunday. A large grave has been prepared
for the burial of unidentified bodies which
will be maintained for all time at the expense
of the municipality.
vienna. Dec. IL.
As to whether the funerals of the victim.
| Of the theatre fire should have the
character of public demonstration, the
Common Council decided against a process
sion. The bodies will be quietly transported
to the Central cemetery, where the funera
services will be celebrated with great pomI
before the catafalque on which the collins are
to be placed. All the Viennese corporation.
and civil and military authorities. have been
invited to the funeral. The orations will b,
delivered by the Catholic prior, the Evan
gelical provost, and Burgemaster. The morn
ing papers give corrected list of the vic
tins and put the number at $50