Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-26
'UNERAL OF THE LATE EMPEROR.
DEATH OF A BROTHER OF THE POPE
Etc
FRANCE.
The nisaAter at Nice.

LONDON, March 25th.-The American Con-
sui at Nice telegraphs as follows Sixty-nine
lives were lost by the Opera House fire.
There were no Americans or English among
the victims. The public interment takes
place to-day. The shops are closed.
NICE. March 25th.-The newspapers state
that the director of the theater has informed
a magistrate that there was strong smell of
gas in the theater on Wednesday, He COM
municated with the authorities. and wished
to postpone the performance until an exsnin-
alton of the gas apparatus was made, but he
received orders to give the opera as adver-
tised. The subscription for friends Of the
sufferers has reached 100 600 francs. The
funeral of the victims took place to day, and
was attended by large crowds.
NICE, March 25th.-No list of victims of
the opera house fire is yet published. The
bodies were in most cases calcined and disfg-
ured beyond recognition. During the fire
several people, frantic with terror. threw
themselves from the roof of the theater and
were dashed to pieces. The calamity was the
result of objectionable negligence. The gas
pipes behind the scenes had not been repaired
or renewed for the last eleven years, and the
escape of gas which occurred four months
ago was temporarily stopped with cement.
The day before the fire another escape was
discovered during rehearsal. Two inexperi-
enced plumbers apprentices were left to at
tend it without SUPPLEMENTARY. 1t is
supposed that they did their work imper-
fectly, consequently the escaped gas concen-
trated behind the drops, aud as soon as the
burners were lighted in the wings the explo-
sion occurred. The meter, which was the
property of the town, and which did duty
for both stage and auditorium, wac instantly
turned off, and the theater was thereby
plunged in darkness; hence the panic and
stampede, which cost so many unfortunate
people their lives. Very few persons were
injured, but the number of deaths was re-
markably large. Two hundred and fifty
people were crowded into the small gallery,
with only one narrow door, which opened in
ward, as means of egress. On the stout
oak door in the passage were the words,
I" Door in case of FIRE, bat it had not been
opened for years, and it was impossible to
break through it. The majority of the vic
tins were Nicers or Italians. There was a
public interment to-day of eighty-fye of the
victims.
Cambetta and the Trade Societies.
PARIS, March 25th.-At the banquet of
the Trade Societies to Gambetta 600 persons
were present and 720 Trade Societies were
represented. The Minister of Agriculture
and Minister of Posts were present. Gam
beta said he hoped the time would soon
come when the new maneuvers, which tended
to weaken President Crews authority,
would be stopped. He trusted that for this
reason his days viii be long. The day is
approaching, he said, when the Chamber
will be free to choose its men and ideas, when
the mandate will go forth that the iucessant
tergiversation, against which we are strug-
Cling, must be closed by GROWING the dernoc-
racy with public liberties. [Vociferous APP
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