Evening journal., 1897-05-05
HORRIBLE DISASTER.
A Fatal Fire at a Fashionable Ba-
zaar In Paris.
MANY PERSONS CRUSHED TO DEATH,
The Place Was Crowded with Sightseers,
Most of Whom Were Women, who,
Being Unable to Escape. Were
Trampled Underfoot.

Trampled Underfoot.
Paris May 5.-Flre followed by pan.
ic, has caused the loss Of fully 100 liveu
and the injury of several hundred per-
sons. it occurred at a crowded charity
bazaar in the Rue Jean-Goujon. at
which the Duchess d'Uzes and other
well known patronesses were present.
The bazaar was a temporary structure
OF wood and was erected in the fiimsi-
est manner. the nudity of the scaffold
Ing inside being concealed by tapestry
hangings of the most inflammable ma
terial. Moreover there was only one
exit.
The flames We're first discovered
above the stall occupied by the Duchess
dues and while the place was dense
| ly crowded with well known society
people, the holding Of the bazaar in the
cause of charity being an annual func-
tion presided over by the leaders OF
Partisan society.
As a somewhat remarkable coinci-
dence, the stall presided over by the
Duchess dues was No. 13.
A terrible panic and crush followed
the alarm of fire. There was q wild
/ rush for the exit and the weaker per-
sons were trampled on after having
been knocked down in the stampede.
/ The inhammable nature Of the building
and its contents caused the flames TO
spread with great rapidity. and in
very short time the bazaar was q mass
Of flames.
In spite Of the efforts OF the firemen.
some time elapsed before the charred
bodies could be pvlled from the smok-
ing and burning mass Of debris cover
ing the spot which but a short time
before had been the scene of so much
display of the most fashionable spring
toilets.
The police officials say they believe
It to he certain that tae number OF
deaths would exceed l0o recalling the
terrible fire in the Opera Comique.
4 Hundred Lives Lost.
A hundred corpses have been taken
from the ruins and laid out In the
Palais de Industries. IL is believed
that another hundred are beneath the
smoldering debris.
The missing, who are supposed 20 be
dead. include General Mounior, the
Marchioness de Gallifot. the Duchess
d'Aloncon, the Comtesses de Nun and
st. Porior, the Marchioness de Flores.
the Niscountess Hunol Hulstein, Bar
oness Mackan, wife Of the leader OF the
Pr0-Rallists in the chamber of depu-
ties. and Madame MorlaunOlamon. her
son and four daughters.
All the cabinet ministers now I'm Paris
went Immediately To the scene. Hum
drsds OF equipages streamed along the
Champs d'Elysees. their occupants
with anxious and tear stained faces
inqulring for their relatives. There
We're many heartrending scenes.
Cabinet ministers. ambassadors, no.
blemen and members of the highest
social and financial circles were side by
side with the lowliest and poorest. anx-
iously inqulring for their missing rela-
tives. About 80 were saved by Pierre
Ambrose and Pierre Bailly who helped
them over wall with a ladder to the
printing room Of the newspaper La
Croix.
The Duchess d'Aloncon, sister Of the
Austrian empress, is among the in
jured. The list also includes the Ouch
ess dues. the Countess Savigny. Nine
d. Laboulaye, the Duchess de Latorre
the Princess Kotchonbey, the Nicom-
tesse d'Avenel and Mines. Moreau. Du
Brcul. Malezieux. Eugene Chalema
Recamier and St. Didier.
In the streets adjacent 10 the bazaar
were long lines Of sumptuous equl-
pages. The most OF these returned
empty Their owners were dead. The
others We're seen moving off with occu-
pants injured in head or limb and in
many cases with faces streaming with
blood.
Words would fail to describe the hor-
ror of the scene at the Palais dc I'm
dustries. where the bodies are exposed
on the side next to the Avenue Danton
I'm "a portion Of the building now ~
course Of demolition. Here. I'm a larg,
room. rudeiy~ covered with rough
panks and on sheets hastily spread
over planks. the bodies as they arrived
from the ambulances were placed IN
three long rows. This is death by hrf
with all its horrors bodies completely
nude. limbs twisted I'm the writhing OF
agony, some still having shreds oil
clothing which assist recognition II
spite of horrible dishgurements. bones
visible through fire eaten flesh, som,
merely skeletons. or grinning skull.
blackened with smoke.
The wounded are known to number
at least $50. Nine. Florez. wife o
the Spanish consul. expired at the Hos
pital Boaujon. where are several other
Of the injured
NJ. Faure. the president Of the repub
lie. has visited the hospital and tn,
Palais de Industries to pay his re
spects TO the dead.