The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-05
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the ladies'" replied: ut Is too late.
News of the fire was already all over
the place and everybody was rushing
for the one exit When the flames
spread to the stalls the public COM
p!etely lost their heads.e The shrieks
or the women and children were heart
rend1ng. The weaker were knocked
down and trampled and everything was
confusion
The correspondent of the. Associated
Press has had an interview with Miss
Elsie Bushbeck of Philadelphia, who,
with the Misses Hawthorne and Dire
ner, was one Of the few who escaped,
arnough not unscathed. Miss, Bush
Deck said: twas a saleswon,an at
Dootn !lo, close to the place where the
nIe originated: l arrived at ten min
utes past O'Clock with my. friends.
We left our wraps and hats in the cloak
room and went to my booth where
four NUNS presided. In the booth were
three blind girls working-one reading
the bind alphabet, the other writing
and the third making brushes. The
lady presiding over that section of the
that 1t would be all right If I came
q little later. l started to look around
the bazaar and stopped at a lottery
wheel, where won bunch Of aspara-
gus. just then happening to turn
round, I saw and called my friends
attention to flicker in the corner of
the wall about fifteen yards away.
Hardly had done so when a gentle
man behind me cried: Fire, ladies':
hasten out and pushed me toward the
door rafferty, roughly but fortunately
for me. ,e,s...-
las this was my second experience
under such circumstances advised d. my
two friends to raise their ,skiFts tiaothe
front so they would not sltuanb5tb over
them. We were then just stepping on
the first Of the three steps leading out
Of the building. Turning my head to
look back saw the whole place in
names. At my left I caught a glimse
OF an old lady emerging from an ada
cent door and saw her stumble on her
skirts. The next instant quite twenty
persons piled on top of her. I crossed
the street and turned round to face
the fire, but already the heat was so
intense that it scorched me and
was obliged to raise my hands to pro-
tect my face. Out of the pile of per-
sens who fell near the the door none
were saved. ALI were burned in a
moment. Of the nuns at my booth
two were saved and one blind girl
The burned visitors were for the most
part ladies, gorgeously dressed"
At 1 o'clock this morning great
crowds were still present at the scene
of the disaster where the workmen
have already begun to build a high
palisade around the ruins. During the
evening M. HanotauX visited the scene
and summoned the project of police
who took the names of all the inmates
Of the Hotel du Palais, with. view.
probably. Of rewarding them for the
rescue effected through the barred
window. The landlady of the hotel sat
for hours at the window looking at the
scene beneath and recounting Incl
dents to visitors.
At the Palais de PIndustrie the
policemen parading with torches that
spread smoke and the smell of rosin,
give the interior semblage Of a huge
cavern whose everything is blurred
and indistinct. In this center is a
caldron of pitch ablaze, hung like a
gypsy kettle. Ghostly figures are mov-
ing slowly around among the corpses.
In the center is huge pile of collins.
When a body is identified it is placed
in one of these and sent home, nuns
with hands folded on their breasts fol-
lowing with the weeping relatives
The firemen found a cash box con-
tanning about 1000 francs and a lot Of
money melted by the f1erceness of the
heat. The days takings were 1900. 1t
is impossible yet to ascertain with any
degree Of certainty the number of VIC
TINS but it is stated that there are 116
corpses in the Palais de PIndustrie.
1:30 a. NIT is stated that Gen.
Meunier has died Of his injuries. TO
the list Of those dead must be. added
the following vfa
Ccmtesse Humolstein, the Marquise
des Maison, Nine. Ventimesnille, Nine.
Hoskier, wife of the well-known Rus
sian banker, Nine. Portevin, Nine.
Jacques Hausmann, and the daughter
Of M. Shevilly and Mile Mandat-Gran-
cey. Among the badly injured are:
The Duchess de la TORI, the Comtesse
Roancey, Count Montclair, Count De-
visin, Mesdames Macedo, Recamier de
Laume, Hyster, Edouard Andre, de IA
Tour Dupin, and Malezieux and NJ
Lefebvre.