New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-05

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although 1t is hoped the missing ones may be
found among the many injured persons who
are being cared for at the hotels. hospitals and
ether places. Admiral Besnard, the Minister OF
Marine arrived the scene shortly after
| o'clock
Before the fremen had time to arrive the roof
OF the bazaar crashed In. buryng those who had
reen unable to escape from the building. Soon
after the alarm was given assistance was hur-
ried to the burning bazaar. and effective help
was rapidly organized by the flremen and the
policemen. The police officers from the Palais
de rIndustrie strove energeticay to release the
victims from the building. but every door
jammed with struggling women.
GETTING OUT THE DEAD.
NJ Lepine, the Prefect. was one Of the first Of
fcials to reach the fire. and he directed the op-
erations for the recovery Of the bodies and dis
tributed the injured among the houses in tho
vciHity. Many OF the latter were suffering from
terrible burns.
Meanwhile the pumps played the burning
ruins and as the work advanced and the in
quries became more numerous and pressing it
was seen that the death-rate would be much
higher than was at first estimated. The police
this evening said they believed II to be certain
that the number Of deaths would far exceed
hundred. recalling the terrible fire at the Opera
ComiQue. Soon afterward IL was found that 100
corpses had been laid out in the Paais de I'm
dustrie. 1t was then believed that another hun
dred were in the ruins
The building erected in the fimsest man.
ner. the baroness of the scaffolding inside being
concealed by tapestry hangings.
TALE OF SURVIVOR.
One Of the survivors tells the correspondent
Of the Associated Press his experience:
THE place crammed full Of people and
the heat was sitting Being very uncomfort-
able. my friends and I determined to leave. but
somehow could not make much headway
through the throng toward the door / Jagged
a little behind. a nosegay offered to me
by a stakeholder when on a sudden the shout
of fire was raised. Instantly all was commo-
ton. We tried to keep cool. but the rush from
behind forced US forward. and sepa-
rated Then tried to work my way back. but
l was carried off my feet and backward and
forward in the swaying crowd lost my hat.
Than my torn off. and then my waist
coat. And all this happened In few minutes
The flames spread with startling rapidity
through the whole building which rumbed like
a furnace, but the uproar Of the contiagratlon
could not drown TIE groans and cries OF the
!
pushed back against the wall OF the building
and finally succeeded In scrambling through an
opening made by some of those who were near
me- Two seconds later l would have been
victim for hardly had struggled through the
hole before | heard dreadful crash as the
blazing roof fell in. The whole thing was over
in twelve minutes, and nothing remained put
the charred and blackened ruins Of the bazaar.
The dead were piled in heaps. especially near
the exit where the charred remains were Ave
feet deep The fremen and company started
to clear the ruins and search for corpses.
All the Cabinet Ministers now in Paris went
Immediately to the scene. Hundreds OF equi-
pages streamed along the Champ Elysees, their
occupants with anxious faces inquiring for rela-
tiyes There were many heartrending scenes
Of grief and despair One woman rushed about
frantically calling her daughter by name. Some
one told her the girl was safe, whereupon she
danced and screamed. then rushed to the coach
man to tell him to drive home and fell in a
dead swoon Another woman went insane. A
third imagined In her frenzy that she recognized
her daughter's dress and Historically called
upon her husband to tell the police 10 prevent
the child from going TO the bazaar. Cabinet
Ministers Ambassadors nObleme1 and members
of the highest society and financial circles were
side bv side with the lowliest and the poorest
anxiously inquring for their missing relatives.
About thirty were saved by Father Ambrose
and Father Bailly, who helped them over
wall with a ladder TO The printing-room or the
revspapcr La Croix." The staff of the Hotel
du Palais lent valuable assistance and saved
about one hundred and fifty persons throuBh
barred window overlooking the bazaar While
the hotel employees were tearing away the pars
they saw three persons burned TO deatb'
ESCAPE OF AN AMERICAN GIRL
The correspondent of the Associated Press has
had An interesting interview with MISS Elsie
Bushbeck. of Philadelphia who, with the Misses
Hawthorn and Dreher, was one OF the lew WHO
escaped. although not unscathed. Miss BUSH
beck said:
"I Was a saleswoman at booth No. ID. close TO
the place where the fire originated arrived at
4:3O with my friends. We left our wraps ana
hats In the cloakroom and went to my pooth'
where four nuns presided In the booth were
three blind girls working, one reading the pima
a,nhabet the other writing and the third making
brushes The woman presiding over that secuon
~ the bazaar told me / need not hurry. as 1t
would be all right If came little later. l
started to look around the bazaar and stopped
et a lottery wheel. where ] won q bunch or
osnaragus. Just then, happening to turn around,
7 saw and called by friends attention to
eicLer In the corner Of the wall about fifteen
Yards away Hardly had done so when man
behind me cried: Fire, ladies! Hasten out" and
nushed me toward the door
"As this was my second experience under such
circumstances. advised my two friends to raise
.hai sl,irts in the front. they would not STUN
,1o over them We were then just stepping on
tho FIRST Of three steps leading out Of the build
,rg Turning my head 10 look back saw the
whole place in flames. AT my ieft caught
glimpse Of an old woman emerging from an al
,,cent door and saw her stumble on her skirt'
The next instant quite twenty persons were
uos IN ton of her / crossed the street ana