The record-union., 1897-05-06
try, which had been on duty all night

Quantities OF COINS, watches, rings,
necklaces and bracelets have been pick
ed up in the debris.
As soon as bodies were claimed by the
anxious relatives or others who had
been lowering about the spot through
the night, they were placed in carriages
and taken to the former homes of the
deceased
The scene during the night was re-
markable. Long lines of infantry were
drawn in a Gordon around the dreadful
spot. The bOnfireS, torches, electric
lights and gas jets used to illuminate
the scene reflected upon the bayonets
and accoutrements of the soldiers,
threw a CHASTITY illumination upon the
houses in the vicinity, the windows of
which were crowded during most of
the night with people watching the
work of horror.
Now and then hearSe would be
called from the line of vehicles sta
toned in proximity, a black mass
would be tenderly lifted into it and
another unfortunate victim of the con-
fiagration would be taken to one of the
temporary morgues in the Palais de
rIndustrie or the neighboring Hospital
of Beaujon
Frequently as many as a dozen
hearses were gathered together in the
courtyard and opposite the entrance to
the Palais de PIndustrie hundreds of
collins We're ranged, ready to receive
bodies. which, in most cases, We're
charred beyond recognition.
Upon several occasions a distracted
father or mother half mad with
grief, would endeavor to force way
through the line of soldiers or the in
ner line of police drawn about the
blackened ruins. Children We're there,
weeping for lost parents, and the Oldest
and youngest and the middle-aged
joined in murmurs of lamentation and
exchanged hopes and fears.
The atmosphere of the hall in the
Palais de PIndustrie, where the burned
bodies We're ranged, was almost unbear-
able.
There again heartrending scenes We're
witnessed. Men, women and children
passed up and down, weeping dis
tractedly before the lines of black
bodies, eagerly scanning the terrible re-
mains, and now and then throwing
themselves down by the side of some
seemingly unacceptable corpse in
which they. by an instinct which an
outsider could not understand, made
out some dearly loved and missing
relative.
Owing to Disagreement the indentifi-
cation of many of the bodies is eX-
tremely uncertain.
Among the articles picked up in the
ruins was a ring inscribed Ferdinand
DOrdino-Sophie de Bavioro." the
names of the Duke and Duchess d'Alen-
con, doubtless the betrothal ring of her
highness. A silver watch attached to
a gold brooch was also recognized as
the property of the Duchess. Her
body has ont been found.
The houses in the vicinity are being
carefully searched in the hopes that the
Duchess is only injured and is being at
tended at some private residence Up to
daybreak the Due d'Alehcon refused to
quit the scene. and only went home at
s O'Clock because he was physically in
capable of further exertion. The Queen
of Naples and other relatives of the
missing Duchess sat up all night at the
hotel of the Due d'Alencon, Avenue
Friedland, awaiting news.
President Faure all night was in con-
slant communication with the Project of
Police, who forwarded the names of the
identified dead and of those injured The
President also disatched orderly officers
everywhere to inquire into the condition
of the injured and hearing that a num-
Der of the latter had been taken to the
Hospital Beaujon, the President pro-
ceeded there to console them In the
courtyard of the hospital President
Faure met the surgeons attending the
injured and thanked them for their de-
VOtion.
Nine. Flores, wife of the Spanish Con-
sui, expired just as President Faure
reached her bedside.
Many tales of despair are told Nine
Foulard was saved by her husband, who,
as soon as he placed her In safety. dash
ed back to the burning building to save
his daughter. He clasped the girl in his
arms and had nearly reached the door
when they were caught in the flames,
and father and daughter persisted before
the eyes of the agonized mother.
Baron de Mackan had a similar ex-
perience. Seven times he penetrated the
flaming ruins in search of his sister,
each time to save another and to see
his sister, later. fall before his eyes.
when he no longer had strength to lift
her.
The Marquise d Aigle was rescued by
firemen 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. though she was fright
fully burned
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the police
officials announced that sixty-three
corpses had been officially identified. 1t
was also officially stated that the dead
would not exceed Ill.
Duchess d'Alencon, one of the dead,
was a sister of the Empress of Austria
and of the wife of Prince Ferdinand of
/ Orleans. She was a Duchess of Bavaria.
born in 1917, and married in 1865 Her
daughter. Princess Louise, is married to
Prince Alphons of Bavaria, and a son,
| Prince Philippe, is the husband of Prin-
cess Henriette of Belgium.
| The former Queen of Naples was also
! a sister of the Duchess. The Duchess
! had great Wealth, and was one of the
most prominent ladies of France. Her
remains We're identified by her dentist,
who examined the teeth of the charred
/ body believed to be hers.
Among the last to escape from the
/ burning building was Baroness de Ruy-
/ ter. formerly Miss Beatrice Potter of
Philadelphia
! The ladies who succeeded in escaping
rushed frantically. shrieking, mady in
/ to the court yards of adjoining houses,
wildly beseeching help. The fact that
! the faces and heads Of the dead were