Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-02-22

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children out of the hallway. The cries
of some of the children at the bottom
of the pile grew fainter and fainter and
then ceased altogether. y
Policeman Reid said Goa the foo,
behind the staircase lay a mass of strug
Cling, screaming children, piled on top
Of each other. As quickly as possible
we pulled them out and passed them by
hand through the window. Those on
top were still alive. When We reached
the bottom we came upon the dead. II
was an awful sight to see them lying
there. with their blanched faces, mouths
| and eyes wide open, and their dresses
| all in disorder. One little girl, Minnie
Fruh, was still alive. She died, how.
ever. on the way to- the Station,house.
| Il was the most awful scene | ever hap.
pened to see. -
The dead were taken to the police
station, on Fifth street and First Ave-
| nue., where they were laid on the floor
in the Darkroom. They were all iden-
titled by sorrow stricken mothers and
brothers and sisters. and removed to
theaffi c:ed homes of their families. The
scene in the class.rooms aud in the halls
after the panic was almost indescr;ba-
BILE. Torn and broken school apparatus
and fragments OF torn clothes were
scattered upon the floors, a terrible EVIL
dence of the wild struggles of the chill
dren to escape from the building.
Father Hespellen is the School d.
rector. Five hundred girls under p
years of age and 200 boys attended the
school, aud they were all in their
classes when the panic occurred A
survey shows that every rule and
precaution for safety in the school
had been disregarded. On the four
floors were nine class rooms, opening
into two Railways, with stairs run
ming east aud west, reaching either
end of the building. Through the
class.rooms access can be had to either
stairway, but the halls and stairs are
separated. In nearly every room the
doors open inward, and there is only
one door in each room for egress for
from thirty to eighty children. The
doors are oply two and half feet wide.
The stairwavs are likewise narrow, and
at the top of the highest flight there
stood wooden gate not easily moved.
Actual measurement showed that the
inward opening door came within
eleven inches of the end of the
nearest Enthusiastically room enough
to squeeze through. The backs
OF the benches were within TWEEN
ty- four inches of the rear wall, and
the stove blocked all progress a. the
junction of the passageway and the GEN.
ter of the aisle. SIX dead girls. from
seven to ten years Of age, were taken
ont and carried into the church, and
laid in front of the sanctuary. Attempts
to resuscitate them were made. Mothers
forcing their way in, despite large
force of police, filled the sacred build
log with pitiful cries. One recognizing
her child dead fell upon it with agon-
izing shrieks. The policemen and
monks turned away. dazed at the spec
tac'e. Conveyances arrived, and the
bodies were taken up by the officers IN
their arms and carried ont. 4 clamor-
ing, shriekiny, throug Of women, with
uplifted hands and Streaming eyes, fol-
lowed. Mothers, upon finding their miss
ing children living. fell upon their
knees in the sand and snow and gave
shrieks proclaimed the Identification of
each little dead one.
TO DAYS DEVELOPMENTS
NEW YORK, Feb. 2l.-The Coroner
this morning selected Jury to investi-
gate the causes of the fatal school dis
aster yesterday. Crowds to-day visited
the place and discussed the terrible
atfair. Many are loud in their denunci-
alton of the ciergymeu In permitting
the staircase. which they say has been
in {. frail condition for some time past,
to remain without being properly
strengthened. Those injured will re-
cover. The bodies of the dead children
viii be brought TO the Church Of the
Most Holy Redeemer tomorrow morn
ing, when the funeral services will be
conducted.
The church is to be draped in mourn.
ing The bodies have been inclosed in
a neat rosewood casket. bearing on sill
yer plates the names and ages of the lit
tie unfortunates. L is thought that
they are all TO be inferred in Calvary
Cemetery.
Number One"
BUFFALO, Feb. 2l.-The dispatches
from Europe announcing that the mys-
FERROUS E'Numbar One" of the Irish ''In.
vincible League" is a native Of the East
Indies, and OF French parentage, recalls
the fact that the party is not unknown in
Buffalo. Your correspondent met him
some years ago, and be is well remem-
bered by some of the weather. French
residents, who called uoon him when
here, shortly after the Franco-Prussian
war, and paid him particular honors as
a wounded hero. The writer met him
in Quebec in 1872, shortly after his ar
rival from Europe. While at the Stad-
acona Hotel, formerly the Russell, on
Palace street, foreigner came from
New York and took room, paying
considerable sum in advance to the
proprietor, Donald Noonan. The man
went to his room and nothing was seen
of him for couple of days. As the
house was rather shiftlessly run, not
much attention was paid to this, but
some groans led to the door of the mys-
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