The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-05-06
PARIS IN MOURNING
lnt,nss Sorrow Casts a Gloom Over
the Gay French Capital.
UNRECOGNlZABLE CORPSES
Orief-Stricken People Behold the
Cnastly Remains of Their ReIa-
tlves and Friends. Victims Of
the Bazaar Fire.
UNRECOGNlZABLE CORPsES

Paris. May "a sombre feeling per-
Nades every class of society. The news
papers without exception describe the
disaster at the Grand Bazaar de Chart
'ie IN the sober and simple terms befit-
'ihg SO appalling an event. Nothing
comparable in loss Of life has ever oc-
CURED here. except the fire which de-
stroyed the Opera Comique in 1887. In
sristocratic circles the numberless din
ner parties and other functions of a
gayly opening season have been sud-
denly abandoned.
III IL now estimated that there were
about Loo persons In the building when
tne fire was discovered. about half OF
wnom escaped unhurt. The amount Of
administrative negligence surrounding
the catastrophe Is almost inconceiyable
The structure was so combustible that
many OF the victims. IL not most of
them, might have been burned alive
without suffocation. No sort OF in
spection seems to have been made in
advance by the municipal or police
authorities or by the prefect Of police
DR.. Nachtel. who has directed the am
bulance work, says the number Of bod
les found gives very inadequate idea
OF the number or victims, as dozens
were burned completely to ashes. NJ.
Lopine. the prefect of police who is Sc
verey censured for the lack of proper
supervision OF the preparatory ar
rangements, says In excuse that pat
rons and patronesses OF the bazaar
were reactionists. and he feared il he
meddled with their programme that
they would say he was trying to sup
press Roman Catholic enterprise. M.
Faure has received kilograms of con-
dolence from Queen Victoria, the En-
peror Nicholas, Emperor william. King
Humbert and other sovereigns. ali
couched In terms of the deepest SYM
pathy.
Paris, May 5.-The terrible fire at the
grand bazaar de charate, a temporary
wooden structure 100 yards long. so
yards wide. erected In the Rue Jeane
Goujon for the annual charity fair. OF
which all the most prominent society
ladies' or Paris are Datronesses, has
thrown the French capital into MOURN
ing. The confiagration which broke out
shortly after o'clock yesterday In the
iinetomagraph booth. near the stall of
the Duchess Uxes. while I 500 to 1 700
PEOPLE were present. Is believed to have
caused the loss of over 200 lives. As
this dispatch Is sent. early wednes-
day morning, Ill charred corpses have
been recovered, together with II por-
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some dearly loved ana missing rela'
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