Connecticut western news., 1897-05-06
NOBILITY IN FLAMES.
TWO HUNDRED PARISlkNS KILLED
 BY FIRE AND PANIC.
Great Assembly at a Charity Fair Caught In a Deathtrap -- Duchess d'Aioncon, Sister of the Empress of Austria, Among the Missing.

Great Assembly at a Charity Fair Caught
 In a Deathtrap Duchess d'Aloncon,
 Sister of the Empress of Austria, Among
 the Missing.
 Paris, May 5.-one hundred black ened, almost unrecognizable corpses are lying in the Palais de PIndustrie. At least 100 incinerated bodies are beneath the smoking ruins of building in the Rue Jean-Goujon, and 250 badly burned people are in hospitals. Many of them are expected to dIe.
 This terrible loss of life occurred at a fire in a crowded charitable bazaar in the Rue Jean-Goujon, at which the Duchess d'Uzes and other we'll known patronesses were present.
 The bazaar was a temporary struc- ture of wood and was erected in the fiimsiest manner, the nudity of the scaffolding inside being concealed by tapestry hangings of the most infiam- mable material.
 The flames were first discovered above the stall occupied by the Duchess d'Uzes 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- ton presided over by the leaders of Parisian society.
 As a somewhat remarkable coinci- dence, the stall presided over by the Duchess d'Uzes was No. 13.
 A terrible panic and crush followed the alarm of fire. There was a wild rush for the exit, and the weaker per- sons were trampled on after having been knocked down in the stampede. The infiammable nature of the building and Its contents caused the flames to spread with great rapidity, and in a very short time the bazaar was a mass of flames.
 In spite of the efforts of the flremen, some time elapsed before the charred bodies could be pulled 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.
 All the cabinet ministers now in Paris went immediately to the scene. Hun dreds of equiSages streamed along the Champs d'Elysees, their occupants, with anxious and tear stained faces, inquiring for their relatives. There were many heartrending scenes.
 Cabinet ministers, ambassadors. mo- 
 social and financial circles were side by side with the lowliest and poorest, anx- iously inquiring for their missing rela- tlves. About 3G were saved by Pierre Ambroise and Pierre Bailly. who helped them over a wall with a ladder to the printing room of the newspaper La Croix.
 Many of French Noblesse Dead.
 Among the dead are some of the most prominent persons of the French nobil- ity and include the Baronne Elizabeth St. Martin, the Viscountess Marie Bon neval, Mile. Henrlette Hinihsdal, Sls- ter Superior Guinoux, Mile. de Grancy, the Comtesse St. Perrier. the Baronne St. Didier, Mime. Laurent Cosselin, Mile. Shevigny, the Comtesse Mirimel, the Comtesse Broderville, Sister Leonie Guillaume, Mime. Haussman, Mime. Schlumberger and M. Victor Cosselin.
 The Duchess d'Aloncon, sister of the Austrian empress, is among the miss ing and is believed to have perished.
 The list of injured includes the Duch- ess d'uzes the Countess Savigny, Mime de Laboulaye, the Duchess de Latorre the Princess Kotchonbey, the Vlcom- tesse d'Avenel and Mines. Moreau, Du Breuil, Malezieux, Eugene Challema Recamier and St. Didier.
 The Due d'Alencon was slightly in- jured.
 In the streets adjacent to the bazaar were long lines of sumptuous equl- pages. The most of these returned empty. Their owners were dead. The others were 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- TOT of the scene at the Palais de rIn- dustrIes, where the bodies are exposed on the side next to the Avenue Danton in a portion of the building now in course of demolition. Here. in a large room, rudely covered with rough blanks and on sheets hastily spread over blanks, the bodies as they arrived from the ambulances were placed In three long rows. This Is death by fire with all its horrors, bodies completely nude. limbs twisted in the writhing of agony. some still having shreds oi clothing which assist recognition In spite of horrible dlsfigurements, bones visible through fire eaten flesh. some merely skeletons, or grinning skulls blackened with smoke.
 The wounded are known to number at least 1S0. Mime. Florez, wife of the Spanish consul, expired at the Hos- pital Boaujon, where are several others of the injured.
 NJ. Faure. the president of the repub- lie, has visited the hospital and the PalaIs de PIndustries to pay his re- spects to the dead.
 The Duchess d'ITzes is one of the most prominent women Hi Paris. A French newspaper about n year and half ago | said that the Duchess d'uzes provided | 3,000.0 900 francs for the propaganda of | General BoulanSer. adding that the movement was actually a royalist cam | paign, and that the late Comte dc | Paris, then head of the royal house Of | France. had pledged himself and his | heirs to repay the money if he should | ascend the throne.
 The Due d'Uzes is the premier duo | of France, the creation of his title dat | ing back to 1865.
 | The Duchess d'Aloncon Is the sister of the empress of Austria and the wife | of Prince Ferdinand of Orleans, sec | ond son of the late Due de Nemours l and elder brother of Prince de Join | vile and the Due d' 'Aumale. She is just 50 years old. She Is the mother of the Due de Vendome, who was married last | year to the Princess Henrietta of Bel | gium.
 She was born a princess of Bavaria | of the younger branch, of which her brother, Duke Karl Theodor, who ia | we'll known as a practicing oeu!ist, Is | the head. The ex-queen of Naples and