Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-21

through a window. Those on top were still
alive. When we reached the bottom we
came upon the dead. It was an awful sight,
to see them lying there with their blanched
faces, mouth and eyes wide open, and their
dresses all in disorder. One little girl, Min
ME Truth. was still alive. She died, how
evar, en- the way to the station-house. 1t
was the most awful scene 1 ever happened to
see.
The dead were taken to the police station
on Fifth street and First avenue, where they
were laid on the floor in back room. They
were all quickly identified by sorrow-strieken
mothers and little brothers and sisters, and
their removal to the afflicted home of the
family was promptly assisted by the suthori-
ties.
The scene in the class-rooms and in the
halls after the panic was almost incredible
Torn and broken school apparatus and frag
mepts of torn clothes were scattered upon
the floors, terrible evidence of the wild strug.
gle of the children TO escape from the build
ing.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
NEW YORK. February 2Oth.-Father Hes
pellin is the school director. Five hundred
girls under II years of age and 200 boys at
tend the school, and they were all in their
CIaScGo WHICH WIS ptuiC OCCuE46us
A COMPLETE DEATH TRAP.
A survey shows thst every rule and pre-
caution for safety in the school was disrs.
garded. On the four floors were nine class.
rooms, opening into two Railways, with stairs
running east and west, reaching either end Of
the building. Through the class-rooms &C.
cess can be had to either stairway, but the
halls and stairs are separated. In nearly
every room the doors open inwardly, and
there is only one door in a room for the
egress of from thirty to eighty children
mostly young girls, and the doors are only
| two and half feet wide. The stairways are
| likewise narrow, and at the top of the high
est flight there is a stout wooden gate, not
easily moved. Actual measurement showed
that the Inward opening door came within
eleven inches of the nearest Enthusiastically
room to squeezs through. The backs of the
benches are within twenty-four inches of the
rear wall, and the stove blocked all progress
at the junction of the passsge-way and cen.
ter aisle between the row Of benches.
sICKENING SCENES.
| From the heap of children in the west ball
| six dead girls, from Z to 10 years of age,
were taken out and carried into the church,
| laid in front of the sanctuary, and attempts
TO resuscitste them made. Mothers, forcing
| their way IN despite the large force OF police,
| filed the sacred building with pitiful cries.
One, recognizing her child dead, fell upon it
with sgonizing sbrieks. The police
men and monks turned away dszsd
at the spectacle. Upon the c0nYeyauces
arriving with the bodies, they were taken up
| by the officers in their arms and carried
out, a clamoring, shrielriDg. moaning lhrong
of women, with uplfted hands and stresm.
iLg eyes, following. Mothers finding their
missing children living, fell upon thsir knees
in the mud and snow, Swing thanks In the
ststion-house frantic shrisks proclaimed the
Identification of each little dead one.
| CORRECTED LIST OF THE VICTIMS.
The following is corrected list: Minnie
lister, Mary Happenecht. Mary Ann Hopp,
Minnie Truhe, Josephine Moon, Gracia
Goetzner, Lena Becker, Lizzie Ksptzki,
Teresa Rathernat, Barbara Brepgenzer,
France Wuttenmuth, Eliza Brandenbarg,
Lena Bindnagel, Barbara Beschol, Alphonsa
fischer.
| Injured-Louisa Floren, years, believed
to be dying, as she is suffering from suffoca.
ton and internal injuries Join Engle, II
years, leg broken Frederick Gintlenan.
years, crushed and internal injuries; Ru,
dolph Mundell, s years, will die from inter.
nal injuries Sister Philippine, slightly in.
jured.