The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-05
III Bodies Have Been Recover
ed From the Debris
At the Site of the Burned
Charity Bazaar.
MORE THAN 200 DEAD.
Identification Often Depends
on Bits of Jewelry.
Death List Includes Many Mem
bers of Noted Families.

Paris, May 5.-The terrible Ilfe al
Grand Bazaar de Charlie has thrown
the French capital into mourning. The
conhagration, which broke out shortly
after 4 o'clock yesterday in the kineto-
graph booth, near the stall of Duchesse
d'Uzes. while from I.5OO to 1000 people
We're present, is believed to have caused
the loss of over 200 lives.
As this dispatch is sent III charred
corpses have been recovered, together
with twelve portions of bodies the
identity of which may never be estab-
lished.
Since O'Clock this morning crowds
of people have been hOcking to the
Palaise de TIndustrie, where many of
the bodies and a large number of the
injured were taken. At o'clock a de-
tachment of the Garde Republiquano
relieved the detachment of infantry
which had been on DUTY all night long
about the scene of the catastrophe.
The search for the dead continues in
the ruins. Quantities of coins. watches,
rings. necklaces and bracelets have
been picked up in the debris.
At o'clock there was a movement
towards a corner of the ruins and an
mass with which it had been covered.
1t was little more than a black trunk,
headIeSs and limbless, and little hope
is entertained of discovering its identi-
". In this case, as in all other in
stances. the firemen and police. upon
discovering a body carefully overhauled
everything near it and under it. in or
der to discover if possible some piece of
jeWelry or other article which might
lead to the Identification of the re
claimed by the anxious relatives and
others who are searching for the miss
ing. and who have been lowering in
despair about this spot throughout the
night, they are placed in carriages held
in waiting Tor them and taken to their
former homes. The scene at night was
a remarkable one Long lines of in
fantry were drawn in Gordon around
the dreadful spot. The bOnfireS and
torches, electric lights and gas jets used
to illuminate the scene reflected up
on the bayOnets and accOutrements of
the soldiers and threw a ghaStly illu-
minatiOn upon the houses of the Vicin-
ity. the windows of which were crowd
ed during most of the night with people
watching the work of horror. Every
now and then a hearSe would be called
from the line of vehicles stationed in
proximity to the scene of the fire,
black mass of what was but recently
joyous humanity would be tenderly
lifted into it and another unfortunate
victim of the conf1agratiOn would be
taken to one of the temporary mOrgues
in the Palais de TIndustrie or at the
neighboring Hospital BeaujOn. Ere
0uently as many as a dozen hearseS
We're gathered together in the court
yard of the Palais de lIndustrie and
opposite the entrance of the building
hundreds of collins We're ranged. ready
to receive the bodies of those who had
perished in that terrible stampede and
which had subsequently. in most cases,
been charred beyond recognition.
The scenes Witnessed among those
who remained about the fatal spot
throughout the night, unable to tear
themselves away, Indifferent to the en-
treaties of their friends or relatives,
baffled description. Upon several Oc-
casions a distracted father or mother,
half mad with grief, would endeavOr
to force a way through the line of sol
diers or the inner line of police drawn
about the blackened ruins. Children
We're there weeping for lost parents
and the oldest. youngest and middle
aged Joined in lamentations, hopes and
fears.
The atmosphere of the hall in the
Palais de lIndustrie where the burned
bodies We're ranged was almost unbear- |
able, and there again most heartrend-
ing scenes were witnessed. Men, wO-
men and children passed up and down
by the side of some seeming unrecOg- |
nizable corpse which they, by an in
stinct which an outsider could not un-
derstand, made out some dearly be- |
loved one and missing relative
THE IDENTIFIED DEAD:
So far as known the following bodies |
have been recognized:
MILE. HENRIETTA HINIHSDAL.
THE BARONNE ELIZABETH ST |
MARTIN.
THE VICONITEsSE MARIE BONNE-
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.
THE BARONNE ST. DIDIER.
NI9IE. LAURENT COSSELIN.
MILE. L. CHIVGNY.
AINIE. FLOREz, wife of the Spanish
consul.
THE CONITESSE AIIRAMEI..
THE COMTESSE BRODERVILLE.
NJ. VICTOR COSSELIN.
SISTER LEONI GUILLAUME.
MNIE. HAUSSNIANN.
AINIE. SCHLUMBERGER.
THE CONGTESSE HUNIOLSTEIN.
THE AIARQUISE DIES NIAISON.
AIAIE. VENTIAd ENSNILL.
AIAIE HOCKIER, wife of the we'll
known Russian banker.
NIAIE. POIFEVIN.
NINE. JACQUES HAUSMANN
THE DAUGHTERS OF NJ. SHEVILLY.
NINE. AIANDAT. GRANCY
Among the seriously injured are the
following:
The Duchesse de La Tore.
- The Comtesse de Raincy.
The Comte de Mont Clair.
The Comte de Deyisin.
1me. Macedes