Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-05

of the few who escaped. although not
unscathed. Miss Bushbeck said:
Il was a saleswoman at Booth No. 10,
close to the place where the fire origi-
mated. | arrived at ten minutes past
four with my friends. We left our
wraps and hats in the cloak room and
went to my booth, where four nuns
presided. In the booth were three
blind girls. working, one reading the
blind alphabet. the other writing. and
the third making brushes.
The lady presiding over that section
of the bazaar told me | need not hurry
and that | would be all right if | came a
little late. I started to look around the
bazaar and stopped at lottery wheel
where I won a bunch of asparagus.
Just then, happening to turn round, [
saw and called my friends attention to
a flicker in the corner of the wall about
fifteen yards away. Hardly had I done
so when a gentleman beside me cried:
Ecu, Mesdames; Sortez' (Fire. ladies.
hasten ouD, and pushed me toward the
door rather roughly, but fortunately
for me-
AS this was my second experience un-
friends 10 raise their skirts in the front
so they would not stumble over them.
I'VE were just then stepping on the first
of the three steps leading out of the
building Turning my head TO look back,
saw the whole place in flames. At my
left I caught glimpse of an old lady
emerging from an adjacent door and saw
her stumble on her skirts. The next In
slant quite twenty persons piled on top
of her. / crossed the street and turned
round to face the fire. bu, already the
heat was so intense that IL scorched me
and I was obliged 10 raise my hands TO
protect my face. Then the roof fell in
with terrific crash, certainely not more
than FIVE minutes elapsed from the first
alarm. Such was the intensity Of the heat
that I saw a firemans jacket ignited and
several 81 the horeses were .adly sinEed.
Out of the pile Of persons who fell near
edoor none was saved. All were burned
in a moment. OF the nuns a my booth,
two were saved. and one blind girl. The
burned visitors were for the most part
ladies. gorgeously dressed"
The fire made furious headway. Cries Of
despair arose outside, in the avenue. the
Place Alma and the Rue Francois. ad-
iacent streets In all of these thorough
fares there was a ver,a5le fight of mad
dened people mostly women without skirts.
petticoats or hats. their feet naked and
their clothing either burned of or torn off.
Every available fiacr5 was taken by as
sault.
The whole Of the highest society in Paris
is in a horrible pell nell, a prey to the
deepest despair. husbands seeking and
calling for wives. and fathers seeking and
calling Tor daughters.
Words would fail 10 describe the horror
of the scene at the Palais lIndustrie.
where the bodies are exposed on the
side next TO the Avenue Bantou in Il por-
tion of the building now IN course of
demolition. Here. in a large room rudely
covered with rough planks, and on sheets
spread over planks the bodies as they
arrive from the ambulanc5s are being
placed I'm three long rows. Here is eXem-
plided death by fire in all its horrors.
bodies completely nude. limbs twisted in
the writings Of agony. some still having
shreds of clothing which assists recogni-
ton in spits of horrible Dlsfigurements,
bones visible through fre-eaten flesh. some
merely skeletons of grinning skulls black
ened with smoke.
At $50 p. m, only six bodies have been
recognized with certainty.
Manufacturing TO the difficulty of con-
tinuing the search for the purpose of iden-
tfcation by the light of torches and cam
dies. the Palais de Industries have been
cordoned by the police who are watching
the bodies The wounded are known to
number a. least $50. Madame Flores, wife
of the Spanish consul, expired al the
hospital
English and other foreigners were
among the stallholders. but it is impossible
as vet to ascertain the names of all the
victims
1850 a. NIT is stated that Gen. Muenier
has died Of his injuries. The list of known
dead up to this hour is as follows:
Nine. Henriette Hinihadal. Baroness
Elizabeth St Martin. Niscountess Marie
Honnoval. Sister GuinouX the superior Of
the Sisters Convent at s.. Vincent de
Paul at Raincy; Nine. &c Grancy, and the
Comtesse St. Pcrier other bodies sup
posed to be recognized are those of the
Baroness ST. Didier, Madame Laurencoss-
elm and Nine Chevigny.
Further idenuhcations believed TO be
certain are as follows: The Comtesse
Mrimel. the Comtesse Brodewille. NJ Vic
tor Cosselin. Sister Leonie Gullaume.
Mssdamcs Haussmaun and Schlumberger.
other names must still he accepted with
reserve. but at II o'clock the Duchesse de
Alecon had not returned home. The Duke
was slightly injured. Comtesse Humol-
stein The Marquise des Mason, Nine.
VentimesnilIs. Nine. Hosllier wife of the
well known Russian banker. Nine. Poit-
evin Mime. Jacques Hausmann and the
daughter of NJ. Shevilly and Mile. Mandat-
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