St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21
No PEACE IN DEATH
DISGRACEFUL AND TERRIFYING
SCENES MARK THE BURIAL
OF STAMBOULOFF.
PANIC AT THE FUNERAL.
MOURNING FRIENDS THROW
DOWN THEIR WREATHS AND
TAKE TO FLIGHT.
SENSATIONAL STREET SPEECH.
Enemies of the Murdered States
mum HOOt and Jeer While
the Body Is Laid Away.

SOFIA, July 20.-The funeral of ex-
Premier Stambouloff today was pro-
life of exciting scenes in the streets.
The police were under orders from
M. Sterloff, the present premier and
minister Of the interior, to take all
precautions to secure tranquility
along the route. Detachments ocu-
pied the side streets, keeping out Of
sight in the houses. The friends of
M. Stambouloff, the ministers and
members Of their households, assem-
bIed at o'clock at the murdered
mans house, where the coffin rested,
covered by numberless garlands
and wreaths Of flowers. About 8
o'clock the cortege started for the
church. Representatives of all for
eign powers except Belgium fol-
lowed the funeral train. The attend
ance of mourners and of the gen.
.eral public was small, owing to the
notice placarded last evening detail
ing accusations leveled against the
deceased, and urging the people not
to take part in the obSequies. Three
hundred PAGES from the house the
spot was reached where M. Stambou-
loft fell by the daggers of the assas-
snis. The cortege was held and NJ
Petioff, who was with the deceased
sta ateSman when he was attacked
and was himself wounded, made a
speech to the assemblage. His head
and arm were wrapped with band
ages, where he had been stabbed. In
an impassioned harangue he
charged the enemies of Bulgaria
with the terrible crime of numbering
the man to whom the country owed
her independence and the prince his
throne. He was still speaking when
a loud cry was made:
run for your livesv'
AN AWFUL SCENE.
A terrible panic ensued and the
crowd became frantic and made a rush
to escape, everyone believing that
lighting had begun. Men and women
were trampled upon and the children
carrying wreaths in a part of the
procession threw down the flowers and
fled screaming. A detachment of gen.
darmes rode up at a fast trot, with
swords drawn. Their appearance in
creased the panic, but after a while
they succeeded in restoring order
Nevertheless, when the procession was
reformed and had resumed its march,
it had lost many of its adherents, all
the foreign diplomats having retired
except the Representatives of Germany
Servia and Roumania. The funeral
cortege had hardly started again
when a second panic broke out, caus-
ing another confusion, which decim-
ated the ranks of the procession
Wreaths were thrown away and
trampled under foot, while the bearers
fled. Some order was again re-estab-
lished, the bedraggled garlands were
gathered up and the cemetery was
finally reached. Here there was a
shocking scene. The enemies of
Stambouloff and the friends of Mai.
PanitZa, who was executed some years
ago for conspiracy at the instance
of NJ. Stambouloff, had organized a
hostile demonstration against the dead
statesman The grave of Panitza had
been bedecked with flowers and flags
and a large crowd, who had been at
tending a requiem to his memory, as
9NiAASN d hiCidSiiiS dlllluue III the
path of the hearse. A detachment of
cavalry galloped up just in time to
prevent a collision
DISGRACEFUL SCENES.
When the grave was reached the
coffin was lowered in silence. There
was no Grafton over the remains and
no ceremony, beyond the hooting and
hurrahs of a band of Stambouloff' S
enemies, who were only prevented
from attacking the remains by a
Gordon of cavalry which surrounded
the grave. 1t is said that the panic
was started by a shot at the carriage
bearing the wreaths sent by the town
OF T1ernova and by the Union club,
from which Stambouloff was return
ing home on the fatal night