Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Tarr!bls onera Honsa ptsaster-


 VIENNA, December 9-The Ring thea Ire, formerly comic opera house, where Sarah Bernhardt recently performed, took fire at seven o'clock last night. just | before the beginning of the opera. The fire was caused by the fall of lamp on the stage. The house was tolerably full, and the loss of life was great. Many | persons were injured. Sixty were saved by ladders and by jumping into cloths ! held below. The scene was terrible, the flames shooting mp through the roof and | gutting the entire building.
 LATER-One hundred and forty-fve | bodies have been brought out of the | theatre dead. There are still number | of bodies in the galleries and other ele- | vated parts of the building. The chief | cause of the catastrophe was that in the | confusion the iron portion separating the stage from the auditorium was not low cred. Thousands of people assem- 1 bled in the ueighbOring streets, where they could hear the cries of agony of the people at windows. The rapidly spread | ing flames prevented the people from ! making their exit, and only small DOT | ton of them saved themselves by jump | ing from the windows, three stories hi.1gh | into cloths below.
 LATER-Takicng bodies from the thea | Ire conti2uueS. It is estimated that 3G ! I persons perishej. Some bodies ara r fearfully disfgured. Several person: l were injured in springing from windows - Among the missi ing are Herr Fife, COurt l musical director, and Herr Hellmenz
 berger. Most of the bodies identified
 up to the present time are those ot
 tradesmen and minor officials. On iht s On the spreading of the news of the dis aster the performances of other theatre,
 stopped. No Americans are known tC
 be among the dead.
 Later from the Disaster.
 LONDON, December 9.-Two bodie:
 have been recovered from the ruins oi
 Ring Theatre. Tn the fourth gallery
 not explored. IL is believed that not
 single person escaped, and that very few , escaped from the third gallery The
 corpses last recovered are little nor, , than charred fragments. Gross neglect is charged against the management ot
 the theatre. The law prescribes the us,
 of oil lamps in the corridors of the the
 atres so that the exits can be discovered S in the event of the failure of gas, but l this precaution was utterly neglected Q The person in charge of the iron curtain f between the stage and auditorium ap l pears to have fed at the first alarm, B Steamer Supposed to be Foundered. LONDON, December 9.-The steamer Saxon Monarch, from Gibraltar, fol B Antwerp, Is a month over due, and i, supposed to have fUundered in the Bay
 of Biscay. It is feared all hands, mum Q bering l0, are lost.
 The Narrowing Details.
 VIENNA, December 10.-The theatei
 fire was much more disastrous than at first reported. IL is now feared that not many less than one thousand perished
 It Is probable there were GC1 on the e fourth gallery. The doors opened in. ward and escape was impossible. The passages and stairways were very mar. row. The building is described as a ] perfect death trap. The flames filled 3 the auditorium almost instantly, burst ing from the stage in a vast sheet and rolling over the heads of the audience Many bodies were found with theil } heads burned off. showing that the fire [ had swept down on top of the densely packed mass of bodies. Many appear tC have died from suffocation, while mum bers bear terrible evidence of a struggle ? for life. Skulls were crushed, limbs dis tOrted and broken; arms torn from the body and bowels protruding. The Fire Department proved totally inefficient to