The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

the people in the crowd and in the win
dows overlooking the same told an
awful tale of the horrors they were
Witnessing. All the mansions in the
vicinity have been converted into tenn
porary hospitals.
SCENE AT THE PALAIs DE LINDUsTRIE.
Words would fell to describe the
horror Of the scene at the Palais de
pIndustrie, where the bodies are ex-
posed on the side next to the Avenue
Danton, in a portion of the building
now in course of demolition. Here, in
a large room, rudely covered with
rough pianks, and on sheets hastily
spread we planks, the bodies as they
arrived from the ambulances are being
placed in three long rows. This is
death by fire with all it's horrors, bodies
completely nude, limbs twisted in the
writings of agony, some still having
shreds of clothing which assist recog-
milton in spite of horrible dis1gure-
ments, bones visible through fire eaten
flesh, some merely skeletons or grin
ming skulls blacke1ed with smoke.
A large force of officials is engaged
in regulating the admission of friends
at the entrance, which is besieged by
crowds shouting and fighting Only
small groups are admitted at a time,
and the visitors are supplied with
candles to assist them in their lugubri-
GUS search. 1t is a strange scene, as
they gogrouping about through human
debris and turning over shapeless and
unrecognizable masses of flesh.
Owing to the difficulty of continuing
the searches for the purposes of identi-
~ication by the light of torches and
candles, the Palais de rIndustrie has
been cordoned by the police, who are
watching the bodies.
Peculiarly wierd is the scene at the
Palais de ~lIndustrie, where the police
men, parading with torches thatspread
the smoke and smell of resin, give the
interior the semblance of q huge cav
erD, where everything is blurred and
indistinct. In the centre is a caldron
of pitch eblaze, hung like a gypsy
kettle.
From time to time a link bearer. dips
his torch in the. caldron, making it
smoke with renewed energy. Ghostly
figures are moving slowly around
among the corpses. Reporters are
taking notes. In the centre is a huge
pile of collins. When a body is identi.
fed it is Immediately placed in one of
these and sent home, nuns with hands
folded on their breasts following with
the weeping relatives.
The fremen found q cashbox con-
tanning about 10, 0OOf. and a lot of
money melted by the ierceness OF the
heat. The days takings were 81, 800.
It is impossible yet to ascertain with
any degree of certainty the number of
victims, but it is stated that there are
116 corpses now in the Palais de Tin.
dustrie.
Policemen, their hands covered with
gloves, have been deputed by the Pre-
feet of Police to pick out the portions
Of remains and to wrap then in pieces
Of cloth, to be transferred in ambulance
to the Palais de IIndustrie.
The building was constructed about
ak months ego. At the time it was
remarked that it would burn like
matchwood.
AS soon as President Faure heard OF
the disaster he sent the most pressing
inquiries for full particulars to the
Prefectof Police. M. Faure has visited
The hospital and the Palais de rIndus.
5rie to pay his respects to the dead.
100 a. m.-Great crowds are still
> present at the scene of the disaster,
where the workmen have already
p started to build a high palisade around
the fatal spot. During the evening M
= Hanotaux visited the scene and sum
moned the Project of Police, who took
the names of all the inmates of thu
q Hotel du Palais, with a view probably
a Of rewarding them for the regcuD
eff 9cted through the barred window
IS where the land lady of the hotel sat TO
y hours looking at the scene beneath AM
recounting incidents to visitors.
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