The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
CARING FOR THE BOD|ES|
Chastity Scenes at Palaise de
fIndustrie, Paris.
THE SEARCH STILL GOES ON
Thrilling Accounts of the Disaster
by Spectators and survivors-Cause
of the Fire Is Undetermined.

of the Fire Is Undetermined.
New York, May 10.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Paris says: The scene
Dp entering Porte Eight, of the Palaise
de PIndustrie last night, when the
bodies OF the victims of the Rue Jean
.Goujon were taken there, was of fear
ful description. There had been placed
the charred corpses of what had been
few hours before beautiful women of
the very best families of Paris. The
bodies were laid out on roughly inn
provised platforms of boards taken from
anywhere about the place. They were
.harred beyond recognition. Almost
all the bodies were burned about the
head and feet, while the middle of the
oody remained comparatively intact
Ambulances kept coming up in a
stream, bringing more and more of the
unfortunate victims, the crowd outside
giving way in awe-stricken silence.
The Rue Jean Goujon. was almost i'm
passable.
OF the bazaar building in which only
few hours before everything had been
fair and beautiful, there remained only
a few charred poles. Inside the
wrecked building there was nothing but
pieces of rags, wood and human re-
mains. The fremen were digging
among the debris in search of the
bodies. There were not enough ambu-
lances, and the bodies had to be placed
in wraps. Then came soldiers, police
and firemen to carry away the dead, and
they all worked in silence and with
will. The soldiers carried sheets in
which to wrap and transport bodies.
There were women nurses from PHos-
pital Beaujon, also with sheets, wait
ing to cover up the dead before they
were taken away in the am balances.
Near the western wall, which bound
ed what had been the bazaar, bodies
were literally found piled in heaps and
their position seemed to indicate that
terror-stricken rush had taken place, or
an instructive budding together in the
face of death. There were pieces of un-
derskirts all over the ruins and frag-
ments of woolen garments and corset
covers. Tiny little slippers were
everywhere to be seen, crisp and
charred by the heat. On one side was
pile of valuable jewels, ETC., guarded
by policemen. There were bracelets
and rings, completely free from flesh,
showing how terrible had been the
flames in their fury.
spfxe 70 tive women who were
standing near the ruins. The elder
one was Nine. Rochezautier, and the
younger was servant.
''We were attracted by the cries of
the ladies'" said Mme Rochezautier.
"Ohl such criesi We called to the
men in the Hotel de Palais, which
fronts on II Cors de la Refine 1t was
the work of moment to tear down the
iron bars of the windows and to throw
out chair. We hauled the poor
women in there. They were SO fright
ened that they did not stay here long.
They were so terror stricken that many
could not cry. But many were lost
and I saw several rush out from the
flames and fall dead. We saved at
least 1907
Mile. lie Comte, of % Rue Jean Gou-
jon. said:
The fire broke out at 4:30 O'Clock.
1t was terribly sudden. The heat was
worse than the smoke. You could not
go into the street for fear Of the heat
The bazaar burned up just as if the ]
wood had been soaked in kerosene. 1
should think there were $500 people
there, because, you know, the nuncio
was there during the afternoon and that
made an extra attraction. He had
hardly left when the flames burst out
They seemed to spring up all over.
So fierce was the heat that all win
dows and shop fronts opposite were
cracked or burst open. Birds in the
windows dropped dead from their per-
ches as if struck by lightning, and
many of the neighbers were SO para
lyzed by fear that they did not know
what to do. The fire lasted only twen-
ty minutes, but such a twenty minutes
I shall never forgeti Women ran
shrieking into the street and fell dead
in the roadway overcome by the heat,
burning from head to FOOT
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