The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-06
lHE HORROR IN PARIS.
Number Of Dead Now Reported at
a Hundred and Eleven.
THE AUSTRIAN EMPRESS GRIEr

~ ite Sister. the Duchess d'Alencon.
Prefect of Police Blamed for Not Re-
|. auiring More Careful Preparation.
Paris. May 6.-The police officials an-
Eounce that Ill were killed In the ter
rible charity bazaar fire on Tuesday
afternoon. and of these "a have been
Identified. Nearly all of the dead were
prominent in Paris society, and among
them are many belonging to the titled
arfstocracy.
The list includes the Duchess dAlen-
con, Baronne Elizabeth St. Martin,
;. Nicomtesse Marie Bonneval, Comtesse
Ct. Pierre. Baronne st. Didier, Nine.
elorez, wife Of the Spanish consul: !:
'mtesse Mirimel, Comtesse Broder-
,lle. Comtesse Humolstein. Marauise
soes Maison, Duchesse e. st. Diedero,
Hiaron Carul St. Martin, Baron De
Eaumont, Baron De Mackau. Comtesse
DE Nun, Comtesse De Surrier, Com
-stesse De Geffulhe, Comtesse De La
= bletterie, Comtesse De Vallin, Com
tesse De Subersac, Comtesse Cerayon-
a Latour. Vicomtesse De Male6ieux,
- Comtesse d'Hora and Mile. Therese
Donen, daughter Of the Baroness do
St. Didier.
There are 10 bodies still unidentified
among which must be those of the
Comtesse de LuDe and Nine. Nitots
second daughter, both of whom are
missing. M. Gosse, the notary, on
- learning that his wife and two daugh-
ters were among the victims, was so
prottrated that his life Is despaired of.
M. Girard, director of the Municipal
laboratory, reports that the ether for
she lamps used in the kinematograph
set fire to the film. the flames then
tsgniting the apparatus
Terrible scenes continue to be en-
oted at the Palais de L'Industries.
yesterday afternoon the mother of the
4-year-old child, Alfred David, one of
she victims, arrived for the purpose of
taking the body away with her. 1t
jSas decided, however, that it was in.
: advisable to show her the ghastly re-
mains of her child. When this news
lwar communicated to the unfortunate
another in paroxysm OF grief she tried
70 force her way into the mortuary|
nall, screaming: Il will see my ohildl"
u. was found necessary to forcibly re-
move the poor woman, whose case is
one Of the most distressing, Nine.
David lost her husband month ago.
and her only other child died a fort
eight ago.
Further particular regarding the
anding of the remaias of Duchess GAL
encon show that ffhe secretary of the
prefecture. accompanied by the maid
y or the duchess ahd footman belong
Ing to the household Of the duke, eX.
amined he rows of bodies. The two
servans stopped before a blackened
arr lna'HFfed corpse, whose abdomen
9tFe" I rrc~uoen. They declared that it
isiAs IL, ,'rnains of their mistress, and
A%sL s.' f.. the dentist of the duch-
soei I.ls .;ter after examining the
,Srapse fol half an hour, declared 1t was
fbt for9 The duchess. He claimed there
!, Me la'tooth too many In the head. but
tis;S servants insisted, whereupon the
4 u@ntist and two doctors operated upon
n t9e upper Jaw. and then the dentist
: w Tsas enabled to formally identify the
remains as being those Of the Duchess
y The Duchess C'AIencon was the sis
Ter of the empress of Austria and the
wife of Prince Ferdinand of Orleans.
IL.
was born In 1847 and married in 1868,
Her daughter, Princess Louise, is mar
I'D to Prince Alphonse of Bavaria,
nd her son, Prince Philippe, Is the
/ sIsband of Princess Henriette of Bel
&:um. The former queen Of Naples Ia
one of her sisters. The duchesse was a
woman of great wealth, and one of the
most prominent ladies' of France.
mr. hn io1t 10
Burning building was the Baronne de
Reuter-, formerly Miss Beatrice Potter
of Philadelphia.
Former Consul General S. f. Morse
said to the representative of the Asso-
ciated Press this afternoon 1T was
Eingularly fortunate that there was
only one American victim. This was
Indeed remarkable. because Just now |
There Is an unusually large number Of |
americans In Paris. They are gener- |
pus supporters of such fetes as the |
Erand Bazaar de Charlie, and, more
over 1t gave them a favorable oppor-
tnnity Of getting into close quarters
With the aristocracy and many of tie
celebrities Of Paris"
Mrs. Porges was the only American
victim. She was Miss Wesweiller.
Her daughter accompanied her to the
Asaar, but escaped uninjured. The !
Porges family reside in Vienna,
! newspaper correspondent had an
interview with William l.. Hogan,
whose sister, Margaret Hogan, was
one OF the four ladies' assisting at the
stall of the Duchess d'Aiencon, and the
only one, who escaped. Miss Hogan
Is niece of Mayor Strong, of New
York. Her brother says:
/ my sister is now in bed, completely
aprostrated. At the time of the cry of
Eare was raised she was about to ac-
-hcompany the Duchess d'Alencon to
take tea at the further end Of the room.
AJ yet she can recall nothing after
the rush, except being dragged by the
hair from beneath a pile OF women
aud children near the front of the
isuilding. My mother had driven to
the bazaar a few minutes before the
disaster, but the crush was so great
that she had not been able to enter"
The Duchess d'Uzes said to a corrs-
Bpondent: .-~r-----s--
1.-THE first CLEAN of fire came from a
spot but short distance FROM where
j was standing. I was dazzled, so
swiftly did the flames spread. can
compare it only to the bursting of a
sHcket. There was no such thing in
my case as reaching the main entrance,
Ebut near me was a small door lead
Ing to waste piece OF ground behind
lie bazaar structure / tusEed through
shis and was soon In the open nir,
ShouGh still in the inclosure. I had
passed as it was. under an archway
pt flames. but was only slightly burned.
iThs hair above my left temple was
laged.'
Mrs. Il. p. Gilmour, of New York,
haa narrow escape. She had con-
Eented to act as a saleBwomen at the
stall Of Nine. Costa Beauregard. She
tsft the Hotel Terminus. where she was