Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-01

the NlCrlmS FeGSdnJSs DuC JIG
Dress of Many Indicate They
Were From the Wealthy Glasses.
AVivid Description Of a Fearful
and Peculiar Accident.
Moscow May S1.-The disaster on the
X irskoie plain yesterday is con-
sanity gaining in proportion as the in
raao-s by the authorities con-
re These are made under Difficult
.ssas tire recovery of the victims was
,nced by hundreds Of volunteers.
,-l many we're carried away before
f were enumerated. Many addi-
ta deaths of tine injured who were
carried away are occurring which are
ay added 10 the enumeration after
some time.
I. rov said that the fatalities viii
amount 10 between two and three thou
a-t bl, it is impossible yet to ascer-
-a accurately the extent Of the dis
-s- An Official statement issued this
morning places the number Of dead re-
covered at 1.S36. and the seriously or
fatally injured at 2S6. But, in cOn-
uas. with this official statement.
THERE ARE 1.2S2 CORPSES
r1g ta.s afternoon at the cemetery,
besides ,he many dead ard dying that
.e aaovn 70 have been removed from
the ul-i3,ed reid by friends.
Last evening. after receiving de9uta-
aoas. the Car and Czarina attended
-ci danced d, ,ae brilliant ball at the
French embassy. Preparations had
hen made ON a most elaborate scale
M ,a.s ball. and it is asserted that
$4,000 was expended on the supper
alone. rare yiaads and delicious fruits
ld vegetables being brought from the
most dIs,an, crmes to add TO the de-
lsa,s OF ,ae feast. while France furn-
slel the cosuiest and most elegant
fabrics and furniture to set of the
oau-.s Of the palace where the en-
o-sss is lodged.
1- Czr.ra was not informed yes
a.4y Of the disaster, owing TO her DEL
a,e condition. While the dance with
Ia .ls French embassy continued amid
81. .ue compartments Of
LUXURY AND GAIETY.
eolso.a,e friends and relatives wan
a.,.t over the desolate plain among
- dead and suffering dying. looking,
'..sl n vain. for their missing.
To-day requiem mass was said in
o.pe' Of The Kremlin. at which the
Gar and Cz.rina and all the members
/. .aa imperial family attended.
The City is filed to-day with grief
@ean crowds. Il, is a striking eyi-
1.e of the vast multitude who ,ook
'it ny5s.etday's fetes that there were
-ge numbers wao were totally uu-
''-.a Of ,he number Of lives among
-'1 ,aa- had been crushed out and
proceeded with their merrymaking
aoasaou- The day without having
g4snsI
---e FEARFUL PROPORTIONS
O ,1e disaster Even up to a late
l'-' q, rjgat. people refused to believe
q there could have been so many
tra lost.
81, to-day thousands of persons are
'''-.as To- the Khodijnskcje pld.n.
es for relatives and friends. The
aenlhcaJion IS most difficult.
! .l account OF lhe large number OF
....s and the trampled. torn and wu-
-..t s'----oa Of many of the corpsss.
80 which are crushed quite beyond
PISS 1li-y Of recognition and al
soad SembiGnce TO humanity.
jor.ty Of the killed were peas
-'n outlying villages. though the
OF some Indicated that .hey
- persons of
'-ti-iH AND DISTINCTION.
-s OF a number Of women clad
..As ana fine liner were among those
-..- Ile srangeness to the sur
rt-S @. macy OF the SURVIVORS
King for missing ones adds
,la confusion and difficulty Of
.l,--.o1.
,,s way Yesterday the full force OF
t,s ana uremen worked among the
~, pulling bodies from heaps of the
ts ~-1 injured and ranging them on
t.-s'1lnd which was covered for
a-f -s OF yards with groups Of ten
.se-. y oegrimed. biood-s,ained and
,-,.d corpses. among which tle
a ~ inends of the missing wander
i d. ,. q painful effort to identify them
t,s cured who were mixed with the
t,s. ss--ered terribly from threatened
~Oh their unattended injuries.