Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-06-05
M|RTA AND MOURNING
MOBILES FEAsT-PEAsANTRY WALL
FOR THEIR DEAD.
People Fell Into Trenches I'm Their
Mad Rush and Were Ground
to Death.

| stantly gaining In proportions as the in
designations continue. Many additional
| deaths of the Injured who were CARR I'd
| away are occurring, which are only add
| ed to the enumeration after some time.
| 1t Is said now the fatalities will amount
| to between 1000 and 5000 An official
| statement this morning places the num-
| Der of dead recovered at 1886 and the
| seriously injured at 286. But in contrast
| with this official statement there are
1852 corpses lying this afternoon at the
| cemetery. besides the many dead and
| dying that are known to have been re
moved from the Inflated field by friends
Last evening after receiving deputa-
| tons the car and czarina attended and
danced at the brilliant ball at the French
embassy. Preparations had been made
on a most elaborate scale for this ball
and 1t is asserted that $4,000 was ex-
pended on the supper alone. The car
| ina was not informed yesterday of the
disaster, owing to her delicate condition.
While the dance in the French embas sy
was in progress, amid all the accompan-
| iments of luxury and gaiety. disconsolate
friends wandered over the desolate plain
among the dead. suffering and dying
looking often In vain for their missing
Identification Difficult.
Today a requiem mass was said in the
chapel of the Kremlin, which the car
and czarina and all the members of the
imperial family attended. The city is
filled today with grief-stricken crowds
1t Is striking evidence of the vast null
titude who took part in yesterdays fetes,
that there were large numbers who were
totally unaware of the number of lives
that had been crushed out among them
and who proceeded with their merry
making throughout the day without hav-
Ing grasped the fearful proportions of the
disaster.
The work of identification is most diff
cunt, Doth on account of the large num-
Der of victims and the trampled. torn
and mutilated condition of many of the
corpses. The majority of the killed were
peasants from outlying places. All day
yesterday the full force of police and
firemen worked among the dead pulling
bodies from the heaps of the killed and
injured and ranging them on the ground,
which was covered for hundreds of yards
with groups of 10 and 20 begrmed and
disfgured corpses, among which the ag-
onized friends of the missing wandered
In painful effort to identify them. The
work of carrying the bodies to the Gem.
etery, where 1t is intended to inter those
who fail of Identification, continued all
night and day. This morning the forces
at work on the plain discovered the
mouth of a disused well in the middle Of
the field, the plank covering of which
had given way in the mad rush. In the
well there were 30 bodies and wedged in
among them and held down by their
weight was found two men alive and evil
IDENTIFY uninjured physically. But the
terror and the hideous surroundings of
the night had proved too great a strain
on their minds and they were raving ma
MACS. There are many incidents of spe-
cial pathos, one case being that of a par
ty of S. humble peasants who had come
together from single village for the
merry-making at the cars feast. OF
this party So were killed.
Origin of the Stampede.
Various versions as to the origin of |
the stampede and crush are current. but |
the account to which the most credence |
is attached Is that the wagons laden with |
the 100000 souvenirs which were to be
distributed among the people were pro-
ceeding to the Khodijnskoje plain, follow
ed by multitude of eager peasants.
when the attendants, with a view to
the Souvenirs amono tho orou,a T,,
was a wild scramble touaras ~ -.
where they fell and the news spread
like wjldf,re nm and down Tho thu..1.
expectant peasants that tho distr,h,-,o
had commenced This resulted ~, 49,
long pell-mel rush for tba h,,th. -.
the dstribution of souvenirs no. =, 49,,
been made later Tho arra naa,,,,. ~
which II was intended IN Laar ~ -
in order during the distr,hut;o,,
comnleted at that aarly bo,,r 80 -
force on hand was nower,ass - 60, ~.
tide Of the crusb Of bnmontt,, W.
added graat,v RI tho disos,or 49,, -.
that these bootbs wara s,,ru,,IN, "a.
bitches. The foremost nersons a. a.,
ncom,ng crovds eli ,,rortaa. .'e
1;tcbes and rho neoria to,,ar,,., ~ . .,
.neadilv tramnIad ther, e. 49,, lem
,t,,n,h,aa go tho,n haa,e ~ usa.". liners
,on,o Tot. Ana 90 ~ - - 'ie' '''e
M An,er,con. H..
There were NO English neon1a No. A
cans among the victims The czar ana
,zarina TODAY after ATTENDING ra,,,,o..
mass in the chane, of tho yrono,,n ,,o,a
/, visit to the iniured survivors. 4, ~
nassing from cot 70 oot - |
ADDRESSING words of svmnatbv ard oo,,
'ort.
judicial inquiry has been onanaa int
he causes of the disaster and an .ffo.,
will be made to fix the resnonsihi,itv
The scene at the celebra tior ~ di,,,,
service at the cemetery today was mos,
some 70 ON neon,e beirg rras
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