The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-07
IN GLOOM.
Paris, the City of Gaiety. Becomes =
Place of Mourning-With Each Hour
the Horror OF Tuesdays Holocaust

WOODEN STRUCTURE 4OO y 10 AObS
and 60 yards wide. erected in the Rue
Jean Goujon, for the annual charity
fair, of which all the most prominent
society ladies Of Paris are patronesses,
has thrown the French capital into
mourning. The contiagration, which
broke out shortly after O'Clock Tues
day afternoon in the kinematograph
booth. near the stall of the Duchess de
Uzes, while from l. 500 to 1000 people
were present, is believed to have
caused the loss of over 200 lives. As
this dispatch is sent, early Wednesday
morning, Ill charred cOrpses have
been recovered, together with IL por.
tions of bodies, the identity of which
may never be Established.
Since o'clock Wednesday morning
crowds of people have been fiocking to
the Palais de L'Industrie, where many
of the bodies and a large mum Der of the
in jured were taken. At o'clock de-
tachment of the Garde Repu blicaine
relieved the detachment of infantry
which had been on duty all night long
about the scene of the catastrophe.
Though the fire was brief the heat
was extraordinarily intense. Of many
bodies, only small fragments were
found. Scarcely one could be identi-
fed from the features or clothing.
Hands were sought for that identity
might be established by the fin
ger rings. At the exits the
piles Of charred bodies were
five feet deep. Many detached skulls,
cleaning white, were found in the
ruins, the water from the fremen's hose
of corpses were found with their heads
burned entirely off Monsignore Clari,
the papal nuncio, is missing. Six
dominican monks persisted.
Many foreigners, including English
and Americans, were among the STALL
keepers. Few of them escaped.
The survivors and searching parties
contributed many narrowing scenes.
Strong men wept, many went mad,
others fell unconscious and had to be
carried away.
Shortly before o'clock Wed nesday
afternoon the police officials announc-
ed that Go corpses had been officially
identified and it was also officially
stated that the total number of dead
would not exceed Ill During the
afternoon the bodies OF the Duchesse
De Alencon and six others were iden-
titled.
The Duchesse De Alencon was the
sister of the empress of Austria and of
the wife of Prince Ferdinand of Or
leans. She was a duchess of Bavaria
and was born in 1S47 and married in
1868. Her daughter, Princess Louise,
is married to Prince Alphonse of Ba-
varia, and her son, Prince Philippe, is
the husband of Princess Henriette Of
Belgium.
The former queen of Naples is one of
her sisters. The duchess was woman
of great wealth and one of the most
prominent ladies of France.
The remains of the Duchess were
identified by her dentist, who exam
ined the teeth of charred body which
was believed to be hers.
Among the last to escape from the
burning building was the Boronne De
Reuter-, formerly Miss Beatrice Potter,
Of Philadelphia.
The Grand Opera house, the Opera
Comique, Theatre Francois and the
Odeon were closed Wednesday night
as mark of respect for the families
of the victims.
The following are among the dead
bodies recognized: Mile. Henrietta
Hinihsdaul; the Baronne Elizabeth st.
Martin; the Vicomtesse Marie Bonnie
val; Sister Guinoux, the superior of
the sisters of the convent of st.
Vincent de Paul at Rainey; Mile.
de Grancy; the Comtesse st. Pierre;
Baronne st. Didier, Nine. Laurent
Cosselin, Mile. Chevigny, Nine. Flor
esse, wife of the Spanish consul; Com
Jesse Mirimel, Comtesse Broderville;
NJ. Victor Cosselin, Sister Lee
onie Guillaume, Nine. Haussmann,
Nine Schlum berger, Comtesse Humol-
stein, Marquise des Maison, Nine.
Ventimesvill, Nine. Hockier, wife of
the well-known Russian banker; Nine
Poitevin, Nine. Jacques Hausmann,
the daughters of M. Shevilly, Nine
Mandat Grancy.
Marquise de Aigle was rescued by a
fireman after she had given herself up
as lost. All her friends had fallen
around her and she was on her knees
in prayer awaiting death, when a fire.
man caught her up and succeeded in
extricating her, tn ough she was fright
fully burned.
The ladies who succeeded in escap-
ing rushed shrielking madly into the
court yards of adjoining houses,
wildly beseeching help. The fact that
the faces and heads of the dead were
so horribly charred and disfgured is
also explained by the fact that the
capes worn were generally of fli1nsy
material and were the first articles OF
apparel to catch fire.
At o'clock Wednesday evening the
police officials announced that "a
corpses had been positively identified.
| There are 10 bodies still unidentified,
among which must be those of the
! Comtesse de Lupe and Nine. Ninot' S
second daughter, both of whom are
missing.
Viscountess Malezieux is now placed
| among those officially identified
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