The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01

so the horror grew. The pressure was So
| great on the sides of the booths from the
| struggles of the mass of mad humanity
! that they gave way, and hundreds of peo-
PIE were forced into them through the
/ broken walls. One mounted gen d arm
! near the booth was literally crushed to
! death, together with his rearing and
/ plunSing horse.
There were no English people nor Amer
leans among the victims. Many of those
VINO came for the coronation had already
LETT the city, and, in any event. tourists
! attended the fete only in the afternoon.
Nery few OF the victims, it is announced,
/ belong to the weli-to-do classes. Nearly
! all are mouj.ks or peasants, and large
! proportion OF the dead are women and
chldren. The car and czarina today,
after attending the requiem mass in the
chapel OF the krennlin, paid a visit to
THE INJURED SURVIVORS
in the hospitals, passing from cot to cot
AID addressing words of sympathy and
COMFORT. Both of the imperial PAIR were
deeply affected by the scenes of suffering
they witnessed
A judicial inquiry has been opened into
| the causes of che disaster ana an effort
VIII be made to fix the responsibility.
The bishop OF Peterborough preached a
sermon in the English church in which
reference was made TO the event and a
collection taken up in aid of the suffer
erS, which realized 366 roubles $3.50.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught
We're present the duke being the personal
representative of the queen at the coro-
nation. The scene at the celebration of
the divine service al the cemetery today
was most impressive, some $4,000 persons
being present. The majority of those
We're
SEEKING MISSING RELATIVES
in the mortuary chambers, and their
grief and despair were indescribable
AS fast as a body was identified a sa-
cred icon dmage) was placed upon the
nreaSt. Those bodies which are Claimed
by relatives or friends have been in
TERED in the churchyards of the COM
munes TO which they belong. The uni
IDENTIFIED dead will be buried in a com
mon grave.
Many. of the injured were discharged
from the hospital today their wounds
having proved TO be slight.
one could gather sufficient number of
incidents OF narraw escapes from death
and stories of heroic rescue to fill a
large volume. One instance was that of
a poor servant girl who was in danger
OF being trampled to death. But a dozen
stalwart moujiks surrounded her and
fought off the press and bore her safely
out of the crowd.
One visiting. the plain late in the day
today found almost all
TRACES OF THE DISASTER
removed. But it was seen how easily the
accident could happen. Behind the
booths from which the souvenir mugs
were TO be distributed is a deep broad
hollow in the land fifty yards across and
full of decliyities and holes six to- eight
feet deep. The shifting, sandy soil would
make 1t difficult to secure a foothold
there even under ordinary circumstances.
and quite impossible with thousands of
people pressing on from behind.
hundreds of the victims met their death
IN this hollow and narrow passages be-
tween the booths. Workmen are still
searching the bottom OF the well in which
thirty bodies and two live men, gone mad,
were found.
Everywhere in the city are excited
groups Of people discussing the disaster,
the significant proportions of which all
have at last come to realize. The streets
present
SOME SADDENING CONTRASTS
in the coronation decorations, very few
of which have been removed, and the
gaily-dressed populace, who having es-
ceped with their friends, continue their
holiday merrlment, while every few yards
men are carrying collins on their shoul-
ders or across their knees in droshkies.
The police and a force of soldiers with
fixed bayonets have been keeping order
all the day at the cemetery, where an
amending stream of people have been
passing all day. All day there were most
affecting scenes, relatives and priests
praying here and there beside the dead
ranged upon the grass surrounded by still
larger numbers of the unidentified dead.
These poor remains of humanity mostly
had only sheets for covering, and some
were
IN ROUGH CoFFINs,
lett half open to enable friends to iden-
tify them. People came upon the ground,
looking for missing ones, only to find
other relatives engaged in dressing the
bodies of the lost, while others We're sit
ting sobbing and apparently helpless be-
side their dead. The funerals commenced
mi r1s-4,~ rsrr
scenes of grief The famous John of Con-
stadt, who attended the car in his last
illness, traversed the field, blessing and
the mournerS.