The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

the Place Alma, and the Rue Francois,
adjacent streets. In all those thorough
fares there was a veritable fight OF
maddened people, mostly women with
out skirts, ~pettscoats, or hats, their
feet naked and their clothing either
burned off or torn off. Every available
hacre was taken by assault.
The whole wooden structure wee
biezing by the time the fremen could
arrive, and the building collapsed al,
most Immediately afterward, falling
upon the unfortunate people.
In spite of the efforts of the fremen.
some time elapsed before the charred
bodies could be pulled from the emok-
ing and burning mass OF debris cover.
ing the spot.
The Project, II. Lepino, directed the
operations for the recovery of the
bodies, and distributed the injured
among the various houses in the vicin-
ity. In the meanwhile the pumps
played on the burning ruins, and as
the work progressed the Inquiries be-
came more numerous and pressing.
The dead were piled in heaps, espe
cially near the exit, where the charred
remains were five feet deep, arms, legs,
and skulls mingled in inextricable con
fusion. In some cases only trunks re
NAMED with no vestige of clothing on
any of the bodies.
CABINET MINISTER'S ON THE SCENE
The firemen arrived at 6 o'clock, and
a company of infantry followed to
clear the ruins and search the corpses.
All the Cabinet Ministers now in Paris
went Immediately to the cene. Hun
dreds of equipages streamed along the
Champs Elysees, their occupants with
anxious and tear-stained faces inquir
ing for their relatives.
There were many heartrendine
scenes of grief and despair. One lady
rushed about, frantically calling hel
daughter by name. Some one told hel
the girl was safe, ~whereupon she
jumped, danced, screamed, thenrushed
to the coachman, to tell him to drive
home, and fell in a swoon.
Another woman went insane. a
third imagined in her frenzy that she
recognized her daughters dress, and
Historically called upon her husband
to tell the police to prevent the child
from going to the baz ,ar.
Cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors
noblemen and members Of the highest
social and financial circles were side by
side with the lowliest and the poorest
anxiously inquiring for their missing
relatives. About thirty were saved BY
Pere Ambrose and Pere Bailly, who
helped them over the wall with a ladder
to the printing room of the newspaper
La Croix. The staff OF the Hotel dl
Palais lent valuable assistance, anC
saved $50 through a barred window
overlooking the bazaar, where, Will
the hotel employees were carrying
away the bars, they saw three person
burned to death before their eyes.
SOCIETY PLUNGED IN DESPAIR.
The whole of the highest society il
Paris was thrown into a horrible pei
nell, a prey to the deepest despair
husbands seeking and calling for wives
and fathers seeking and calling TO
daughters. One young woman, still
wearing on her breast the badge Of
stall attendant, was seen rushing abou
in her p~etticoat, her dress having bee
torn eff to be thrown owe a lady VIII
WAS in flames. Her one anxiety We
to And and tell her parents Of her safety
In the streets adjacent to the bazaa
were long lines of sumptUous equipageI
The most Of these returned empty
their owners were dead. The Other
were seen moving off with occupant
injured in head or limb, and in man
Acases with faces streaming with bloO'
An electric light has been installed
the scene Of the fire to assist the freme
inrccovering the bodies from the debri
It is noticed that in most cases IL
heads of the victims were burned to
cinder even when other parts Of Il
body were not much injured. This
explained by the fact that the thick
tarred roof fell in blazing masses up'
their heads.
, It was reported that Mile. LuC
Faure, who left the Elysee to go to t
, bazaar, had persisted. N. Hanota1
, drove up, in great haste, to inqui
concerning her, and was immediate
, followed by Nine. Faure, pale wi
terror and excitement, who was res
s,7rad nv learning that her dauoht