The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-05
paris HOLOCAUST.
NwO Hundred Lives Lost by Fire
in the French Capital.
, CHARITY BAZAAR WRECKED.
Appalling Scenes in the Mad Flight
= Frsu the Flames.
SPEEDY WORK OF DESTRUCTION,

SPEEDY WORK OF DESTRUCTION
=
In Few Minutes After the Fire Broke
Out the Roof of the Blazing Structure
Fell, Burying Many in the Ruins.
The Bazaar Managed by Leaders OF
French Society-St of Sur
Z, vlvors of the Horror The Strong
Trampled Upon the Weak and the
Young Crushed the Old to the Floor
=, I'm the Effort to Escape-No Painter
4 Ever Imagined Last Judgment So
Appalling.
Paris, May 5.-Fire broke out late
Yesterday afternoon in crowded char.
jtable bazaar In the Rue Jean Gouton,
,ht which the Duchess dUzes and other
well known patronesses were present.
The proceeds Of the sales at each stall
sRere devoted to a separate charity.
- The stalls We're presided over by
Mime. Fevrier, the wife of General
Fevrier; the Marquise de rAigle, Nine.
Jacobs, the Baronne de la Doucette,
the Marquise de st. Michael the Ouch
ess d'Uzes, Nine, Mignotte. the Bar
SSpne de st. Idier, the Comtesse Dzyal-
gnska, the Marquise lie Gouestier, the
Marquise dArgence, the Marquse de
Pitt. the Duchess dAlencon, mem
per of the Orleans family; Nine dArlu,
Mime. Boisseaux. the Baron F. de
tBchickler, Nine. Moreau, the Marquise
costa de Beauregard. her royal high
ness the Duchess de Vendome, the
Marquise de Maison and the Comtesse
e Grefful, nee Ii. Rochefoucauld.
The building was constructed about
six months ago. At the time it was re-
marked that it would burn like match
wood. The interior was divided into
bhops a la old Paris, constructed of
prettily painted canvass.
The building was erected in the film
siest manner, the nudity of the scaf-
folding inside being concealed by
tapestry hangings of the most infam-
Unable material. Moreover, there was
pnly one exit. The bazaar was in full
swing. when suddenly. about o'clock,
Ahe cry of fire rose in the quarter
where the kinematograph was being
exhibited.
The Duchess D'Uzes and her daugh-
Ter. the Duchess De Luynes, had stalls
Near the great door, They escaped
fasiy, the former unharmed and the
latter but slightly injured. Henry
Blount, the promoter of the bazaar,
had his beard burned off. General
f'evrier escaped with only burns on the
head and hands. along with Nine.
Wilson, daughter of former President
Grevy, Nine. La Boulaye and the
Duchess D'AlenCon.
A policeman who was on duty at the
hoors of the bazaar says that from
1900 to 1900 people were In the build
Ing when the fire broke out. He adds
fhat the alarm caused a general panic,
Followed by terrible rush for the
doors, which were soon choked with
people, thus preventing the escape Of
many who might otherwise have been
saved. The strong trampled upon the
weak, the young crushed the old to the
1j0or heartrending cries of fear arose
on all sides, soon followed by shrieks
pf agony as the flames swept onward
behind the crowd struggling for the
doors.
Panic helped to spread the fire. La
dies whose clothes were blazing ran
wildly about, igniting the inflammable
surroundings. They had the strength
that cycling and athletics give, but lost
their heads
The prefect of police declares that
There are fully 200 persons missing, and
1t Is believed that all of these have
pcrished in the holocaust.
The firemen arrived at o'clock, and
a company of infantry followed, to
clear the ruins and search for COrpses.
The news spread like wildfire. All the
cabinet ministers now in Paris went
Immediately to the scene. Hundreds of
eQuipages gtreamed along the Champs
,dElysees, their occupants with anx-
ious and tear stained faces, inquring
for their relatives. There were many
heartrending scenes of grief and de-
,spair. One lady rushed about fran
tically calling her daughter by name.
Some one told her the girl was safe,
whereupon she jumped, danced and
,gcreamed, and then rushed to the
'Coachman to tell him to drive home,
End fell In q dead swoon. Another lady
went insane. third imagined In her
frenzy that she recognized her daugh
,ters dress, and Historically called upon
Gher husband to tell the police to pre-
tvent the child from going to the ba-
Taar.
: { Cabinet minister's ambassadors. no.
blemen and members of the highest
social and financial circles we're side by
side with the lowiiest ard the poorest.
(anxiously. inquiring for their missing
relatives.
About 80 were saved by Pere Am.
proise and Pere Bailly, who helped
them over the wall with a ladder TO
fthe printing room Of the newspaper
La Croix. The staff Of the Hotel Du
Pnleis lent valuable assistance. and
y saved 1Jo persons through barred
window overlooking the bazaar, where.
while the hotel employees were carry
tang., away the bars. they saw three
persons burned to death beneath their
eyes.
! Policemen, their hands covered with
IS gloves, have been deputed by the pre-.
feet OF police to pick out the portions
Of the remains and to wrap them in
ideccs of cloth, to be transferred In
Embulances to the PaIais d'L'Indus-
dries. The remains present a horrible
spectacle OF limbs burned and twist
y ,sd. On all sides can be seen stretchers
oiled with mutilatad corpses. skulls
split open and brains exudlng. Just
behind a heap of corpses lies alore the
body Of woman. The face is down.
ward, the head burned, the brain ex-
posed, and frora the empty socket of
the eye the brains are slowly ooZing.
/, The arms and legs were burned off.
A little further OF Is the body Of an