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the ladies'" / replied: 'It is too late.
News of the fire was already all over
the place and everybody was rushing
for the one exit. When the flames
spread to the stalls the public COM
pletely lost their heads. The shrieks
OF the women and children were heart
rending. The weaker were knocked
down and trampled and everything was
confusion"
The correspondent of the Associated
Press has had an interview with Miss
Elsie Bushbeck, of Philadelphia, who,
with the Misses Hawthorne and Dre-
her' was one Of the few who escaped,
although not unscathed Miss Bush
,'eck SAID L was a saleswOman at
Dooth 10, close to the place where the
hre originated. / arrived at ten min
uteS past O'Clock with my friends.
we left our wraps and hats in the cloak
room and went to my booth where
-FOUR NUNS presided. In the booth were
three blind girls working-one reading
the blind alphabet, the other writing
and the third making brushes. The
lady presiding over that section of the
bazaar told me | need not hurry but
that it would be all right if / came
a little later. l started to look around
the bazaar and stopped at lottery
wheel, where | won bunch Of aSpara-
gus. Just then happening to turn
round, L saw and called my friends
attention to flicker in the corner Of
the wall about fifteen yards away.
Hardly had l done 50 when a gentle
man behind me cried: Fire, ladies;
hasten out and pushed me toward the
door rafferty, roughly but fortunately
for me.
AS this was my second experience
under such circumstances | advised my
two friends to raise their skirt.a in. the
he 4 IL
them. We were then just stepping on
the first of the three steps leading out
Of the building. Turning my head to
look back | saw the whole place in
flames. At my left [ caught a glmse
OF an old lady emerging from an ada
cent door and saw her stumble on her
skirts. The next instant quite twenty
persons piled on top Of her. I crossed
the street and turned round to face
the fire, but already the heat was 50
intense that it scOrched me and
was obliged to raise my hands 70 pro-
tect my face. out Of the pile Of per-
sens who fell near the the door none
were saved. All were burned i'm ID
moment. Of the nuns at my booth
two were saved and one blind girl.
The burned visitors We're for the most
part ladies, gOrgeOusly dressed"
At 1 o'clock this morning great
crowds were still present at the scene
of the disaster where the WOrkmen
have already begun to build high
palisade around the ruins. During the
evening NJ. HanOtauX visited the scene
and summoned the project of police
who took the names of all the inmates
of the Hotel du Palais, with view.
probably. of reWarding them for the
rescue effected through the barred
window. The landlady Of the hotel sat
for hours at the window looking at the
hanaat nd
dents to visitors.
At the Palais de TIndustrie the
policemen parading with torches that
spread smoke and the smell of rosin.
give the interior semblage of a huge
cavern whose everything is blurred
and indistinct In this center is
caldron of pitch ablaze, hung like d
gypsy kettle. GhOstly figures are NOV
ing slowly around among the cOrpses
III the center is a huge pile of collins
When a body is identified it is placed
in one of these and sent home, nuns
with hands folded on their breasts fol-
lowing with the weeping relatives.
The iremen found a cash box con-
tanning about 1000 francs and a lot %
money melted by the fierceness Of the
heat. The days talIngs were 1900. Ii
is impossible yet to ascertain with any
degree Of certainty the number Of vic
tins, but it is stated that there are l16
Corpses in the Palais de lInduStTie.
1:30 d. NIT is stated that Gen.
Meunier has died Of his injuries Tt
the list of those dead must be added
the following:
Ccmtesse HumOlstein, the Marquise
des Maison, Nine. Ventimesnille. Nine.
Hoskier. wife of the well-knOwn Rus
sian banker, Nine. Portevin. Nine.
Jacques Hausmann, and the daughter
Of NJ. Shevilly and Mile Mandat-Grar-
cey. Among the badly injured arr:
The Duchess de la TORI. the Comtesse
Roancey, Count Montclair, Count De-
visin, Mesdames Macedo, Recamier lie
Laume, Hyster. Edouard Andre, de "a
Tour Dupin, and Malezieux and NJ
Lefebvre.