The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
THE THEATRE FIRE ,
The Tale Crews Worse as the
Full Facts Become KNOWN.
subscriptions for the Sufferers

the upper gallery must have fallen into
the pit, where the only remains found
we're small fragments Of bone. Beyond
a doubt 500 gallery tickets had been Is
sued. One hundred holders of these, II
is known, jumped from the Windows
Competent judges fear the loss OF lift
will be fully 700. Nothing is heard o.
members of the orchestra. The subscrlp-
ton raised on the beurse now amounts tC
SI40, 600. All the newspapers have
opened subscription lists. The Emperor
has given large sum. The manager Of
the theatre says it was absolutely i'm
possible to lower the iron curtain owing
to the great rapidity with which tht
hapes spread.
Vienna, 9. = The collection among
members of the lower house of tn,
Reichrsth already amounts to $1,000
forms. The theatre, which was the
property of the state, was insured N the
North British and Magyar Franco Com
psnies to the amount of 800, 900 f rims il
each office. The lessee's loss is estimated
at Is, 900 forms. He held insurance fol
only small amount. The building i:
still on fire tonight. The funeral of the
victims is placed for Sunday. The i'm
perial family contributed largely to-
wards the relief fund. The managers Of
all theatres announce special perform
ances for the benefit of the sufferers
The number of persons actually re-
ported missing is 600 In regard to the
origin Of the fire, the superintendent OF
machinery says the scenery became ig-
nited as the lamps were being lighted by
an electric current. All of the perform
ers, except three of the chorus, were
saved. Baron Rothschilds subscribed
10000 forms to the relief fund. Among
the missing are three professors and q
member Of parliament.
Four hundred corpses are recovered
from the theatre.
Paris, 9.--Subscription lists are opened
here for the families Of the victims OF
the Vienna theatre fire.
New York, 10.-Specials from Vienna
have the following additional details:
Vienna, 9-Midnight.-The extent of
the calamity has hitherto been much un-
derstated. One thousand one hundred
and thirty persons are announced at the
police bureau as missing, and assuming
that many of these will turn up, it is
feared that the total loss will not be
much less than 1000 persons. It is now
probable that there were 600 in the south
gallery. All the persons in the third row
Of the parquette persisted. Some persons
who entered the theatre a few minutes
after the fire was discovered, remarked
at the time that comparatively few es-
capped. The theatre holds 1000. Every
place was occupied except the
and boxes. consequently
the total loss may be found to be nearly
!, 600. Three hundred and sixty tickets
were issued for the fourth gallery seats
for last nights performance. OF these
about fifty have been found. They had
made their escape from the inside only to
find death by suffocatioR in the passage
way, which had no out. The rest were,
up to o'clock this afternoon, seen lying
within the fatal gallery, vast barbados
of human bodies. About 2 o'clock the
fourth gallery fell ia, and the fremen
are carrying out Jumps ofcharred bodies.
without form and far beyond the pos
sibility Of recognition. Who these vic
tins are will not be known until their re-
lations have announced them as missing.
Long lists of dead appear tonight.
Among those already identified are: Po-
lish Deputy Pengowki and wife, Max
Kitten, Ven Bitner, Carker, G, z. Erng,
Mr.. Carr, described as from America,
Arthur Waddel, q student from Scot
land, DR.. Boog and his young wife, Pro-
fes:or Loewaa and wife Of Nicholas
burg, the architect Melkof, Of Vienna,
Raschburg, broker; Anton
Lipp. apOthecsry; Nochod. merchant;
DuschiRski, a student and three chorus
girls. Among the missing are three pre-
fessors, and several students of the Friez
preparatory school and among
them young Count Siegmund Fes.
Persons who have seen the dead on the
fourth gallery describe the bodies as ly-
ing in the position they had fallen, for
ward, backward, upward, behind, to-
gether in convulsive clinging masses.
They were unable to leave the gallery
because the doors opened inwsrds. Even
had they escaped death here, it is scarce
IL possible that they would have escaped
in the passages and narrow stairways.
Plunged in total darkness and filed
with sufocaIing fumes, death came to
them quietly, however. Ayoung Hungsri
a. student, who was in the third gallery,
told me that no sooner did the fire break
into the auditorium than the air became
insufferably sitting. He managed 70
escape, but he saw some fall down suff0-
Gated before him. He only escaped bv
finding his way quickly to the window of
the upper loggis. Comparatively
few people effected their escape,
from tue two upper galleries, through
the pitch dark passages. Many fell st
the narrow winding stairway leading
from one gallery to the other. In the
narrow circular stairway leading from
The second 70 the third gallery, thirty
bodies were found, fallen together.
Brown, of the firm of Brown Bros. s.
Co., of New York, who. with his wife
and the entire family, visited the Ring
Theatre on Thursday afternoon st the
matinee concert, and therefore left the
theatre about an hour before the
catastrophe. says that the stairway il
narrow and the windows leading from
the lobby to the psrquet seats were
scarcely wide enough for two persons TO
pass, and that he had vowed, after arri-
wing in the open air again, never to take
his family into such death trap again.
The difficulty Of escaping even after leav-
ing tho auditorium may be gathered
from the narrative of young man who
had q seat in one of the galleries. He
says that the galleries were quite filed.
The American medical students, of whom,
there are $50 in Vienna, and who usu-
ally frequent moderate price places, seem
to have kept away altogether on the fatal
night, for but one is reported as missing,
six German and Hungarian
fellow students are among the dead.