Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-21

could get away from the city on the first
 alarm probably saved his life. The bulk Of
 the people were in the amphitheatre, which
 was situated near one of the city gates on the
 side remote from Vesuvius, and there was
 nothing to hinder every one in the great au-
 dience from getting away in time. Inose
 who pershed were those who deliberately
 put off their flight to save wife and child, or,
 still more often valuables.
 Of such victims 45O have been already
 found. From the year when the excavations
 began, in 1748, to the year 1926, the total
 number of human remains discovered was
 16O; from 1927 to 1845 it was 63; from
 1S4G to 1860 it was CO from 1861 to 1872 it
 was ST. and from 1873 to 1881 about 100.
 But it is to be remembered that only two
 fifths of the buried surface has been brought
 to light. On the whole, there appears good
 reason for putting the total number of hu-
 man beings who perished in tho eruption at
 least as high as 1000. To these should be
 added the skeletons of dogs, horses, Il
 hens, tortoises, 15 pigs, 10 oxen and the
 bones of 15 other animals. The remains of
 one of these dogs were found in the porch
 of the s'House of Orpheus," and the cast which Signor Fioreli has taken brings before
 with painful vividnoss one of the minor
 tragedies of that awful day. The poor beast
 was chained at his post, and in the general
 panic and confusion no ono remembered to
 let him loose. The chain lay by the remains
 when they were found, and it was evident
 that the creature had strained his tether to
 the utmost in the effort to keep himself above
 the masses of ash and pumioe stone that rap idly accumulated around and over him. Inc cast is to be seen in the little museum at Pompeii. The dog lies half on his side, half on his back, his slender head and open mug gle, gasping for little ar, buried between the hind legs which have been convulsively brought orward in the last agony of death. But the process which has been so successful in reproducing the very form and likeness of rh agh IA va and O. duced results no less extraordinary in the case of the human victims of the catastrophe. The idea of pouring plaster of Paris in iquid state into ths molds left by the bodies ia the soft ash did not occur to anyone tlh 1t suddenly flashed across Fioreli about twenty ears ago. Of the remains of the 1SG human beings discovered in Pompeii in the first one hundred years of the excavations there is consequently only 8 written record. It Is ! only from the Journal of EgcaUations for the year 1881 that we know of the touching and tamous sight which greeted the eyes of the first discoverers of the House of the Faun." On the floor of the banqueting hall lay the body of a woman, probably the mistress of the house, with her jewels scattered where she had thrown them in despair of rescue or escape. The roof had been crushed in by ths weight of falling ash and pumice stone, and the hands of the dying woman were up stretched in 8 vain effort to keep off the i'm pending weight Parts of the body and c4OLnlu& COulU SG1ll Do ulhuo Out, duN u uEhW- ing could be made of one charming foot.
 But such records ifeless and tame indeed beside the extraordinary portrait statues which are now to be seen in the little museum st Pompeii. There are nine of these, or very short time since, and to see them Is like seeing the men and women them selves of Is centuries ago. The results achieved by Fioreli are striking and complete. lake tho cast of the elderly slave, for in | stance, probably 8 man of some 60 years old,
 who appears to have been taking his siesta when the eruption began, and to have been painlessly asphy yxiated in his sleep He lies on his right side, the knees 8 little bent, the 1 left leg drawn up, and the cheek resting on | the right hand. The coarse, strongly marked l eatures, and peaceful expression of the l sleeper, have all been perfectly preserved l hardl, less easy death must have been the | lot of the four persons found lying on their backs in the street. Three of these were men, one of them a negro of the most pro- ] nounced type. The fourth WAS 8 woman of unusual stature whose time for becoming l mother was evidently not far off, The three persons found lying on their faces do not | appear to have found quite so quick death l Two of them are women. One of these, an
 elderly woman with 8 thin figure, lies by herself, her face buried in her arms, as if to 1 protect 1t from the fatal rain. The other I lies side by side with man, in whose coIa- 1 pany She appears to have taken flight. She l had covered her face with fold of her dress,
 and the hands are tightly clenched in the last
 death agony.