Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-12-10

vienna, December 10.-Psrsons who
have seen the dead In the fourth gallery
describe the bodies a oil found lying
In the positions In which they had fallen
together. In c~onvulsivs. clingins msssss.
They we're unable 70 leave the gallery
bscsuss the doors opened inward. Even
had they escaped from there II 10 scarce
ly possible that they would have escaped
In the passages and narrow stairwsys
plunged In total darkness and filled With
suffeoating fumes. Death came to them
quickly. however. A young Hungarian
student. who was In the third gallery.
told me that no soonsr did the ere break
into the auditorium than the air became
insufsrsbly sitting and be managed to
escape, bu. be saw scores fall down SUI
focatsd before be reached the stairs. and
he only escaped BY quickly finding his
way to the window Of the upper logsia.
Comparatively few people escaped from
the upper galleries through the pitch
dark passages. Many fell at the narrow
winding stairway leading from ons gal.
lsry to the other. and in the narrow cir
eular stairway leading from th . second
to the third gallery thirty bodies were
found which had fallen together.
The extent OF the calamity has hith-
erto been much undsrstatsd. Eleven
hundred and thirty persons are an
uouuced at the Police Bureau % miss.
Ing, and assuming that many OF them
will yet turn up, Il IL feared that the to-
tai loss will not DO much less than .
thousand persons. II is now probable
that thsrs were six hundred In the
fourth gallery. All persons In the third
rev Of the parqust persisted. Some
persons, who entered the theatre o few
minutes after the FIRE was discovered,
remarked at the time that comparatively
few escaped.
The theater holds two thousand. Ev.
cry place was occupied except the par.
oust and boxes, consequently the total
loss may be found to be nearly or quite
one thousand. Three hundred and sixty
tickets were issued for the fourth gallery
seats for the nights performances. OF
these about ffty have been found. They
had made their escape from the inside
only to fud death by suffocation in the
pssssgs.way, which had no exit. About
2 o'clock the fourth gallery fell In, and
the frsmen commenced carrying out
lamps Of charred bodies. without form
or feature. and beyond the possibility Of
recognition. Who these victims are will
not be known. until their relatives have
announced them 10 missing.
Mr.. Brown, OF the Arm Of Brown 4
Co., New York. who with bis wife and
entire family visited the Ring Thsstsr
on Thursday afternoon. ct the matinee
concert, and therefore left the thester
only about an hour before the oatas.
trophs, says that the stairways and pas.
saess are narrow and winding leading
from the lobby TO the parquet; that the
seats we're scarcely wide enough for two
persons to pass, and that he. on arriving
In the open air, resolved never to take
his family into such o death trap again.
The difficulty Of escaping. even after
leaving the auditorium, may be imagined
from the narrative OF . young man who
had q seat In one Of the galleries. He
says that the galleries were quite allied.
The American medical students. Of
whom there are 160 In Vienna, and who
usually frequent the moderate priced
places Of amusement, seem to have kept
away altogether on the fatal night. for
not one Is reported a. missing. although
six German and Hungarian FELLOWSHIP.
dents are among the dead.
To look ct the dead bodies 10 the
MorRue and at the Krsnkenhouse tells
more Of the terrible death which the VIC.
Tins met than the report that any eye
witness has Jet given. Some appear to
have died from ~suffocstion alone, Two
beautiful girls are there with their faces
scarcely discolored. locking as II they
were only asleep. Another youthful
female figure lies there with only the
charred stump Of her neck remaining.
while her body and lower sxtremities are
untouched. The linen Of her under
clothing 10 a. spotlsssly white a. when
on the afternoon Of tho fatal day she
dressed herself for the play. Her death
10 described easily: Caught In the dense,
surRing crowd, the flames descended
upon them all. charring and consuming
only their heads with the hsry heat.
Most Of the better preserved bodies show
o arm upliitsd a. II struggling for free
dom, while the other hand 10 closely
pressed to the mouth to exclude the de-
stroying breath Of the Are. Others have
the heads and upper part Of the bodies
without disbursement, while the feet and
legs are charrsd of. Other victims are
represented by the trunk alone. the
head, feet and legs being missing en-.
tirsly. Those who were exposed TO the
flames are 40 dark a. Africans, but with
the form and features often faithfully
preserved.
The Vienna Ere department. proved
itself supremsly inefficient. There was
only one frs engine. giving . stream
scarcely larger than . finger, and 1t could
not reach the upper portion Of the house.
The hand engines were only fed from
water butts hlled from barrels driven
into the ground. There were no FIRE
escspes, and the ladders came late on
the ground, and when they arrived much
time was lost in planting them. There
was o great display Of military, who
kept order, but Of efficient hrsmen and
apparatus there was Q lamentable lack.
i. IL generally accepted that the origin
OF The Gre was the accidental upssiting
Of ! small spirit lamp. The first act Of
.' Conte d'Hofmann " represents stu
dents ut o beer house. In which the lamp
II used. This SET ars to nj side Of the
scenes, and the flames extended In Q mo-
ment to the flies. Other versions Of the
cause are printed.
There were about two hundred per.
sons on the stage and In the adjoining
dressing-rooms ct the time Of the hre,
The ballet corps were mostly only halt
Creased. On the extinction OF the lights