The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-06

Paris, May "a sombre feeling per-
vades every class of society.
The newspapers. without exception.
describe the disaster at the Grand Ba
zaar de Charlie in the sober and SIM
pie terms BETTING so appalling an
event.
The catastrophe will always be re-
nembered as one of the most fearful
which ever befelI a European city.
Nothing comparable in loss of life
has ever occurred here, except the fire
which destroyed the Opera Comique in
1887.
SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.
Singularly enough, that disaster hap
pened in the same month of the wear.
and 80 persons were burned to death
| while As were officially reported as
missing.
In aristocratic circles the numberIess
dinner parties and other functions of a
| gayly opening season have been sud-
denly abandoned.
1t is now estimated that there were
/ about 1.200 persons in the building
When the fire was discovered. about
one-half of whom escaped unhurt-
/ Some estimates place the number of
dead at 143, others at still a higher
/ figure.
The amount of administrative negli-
gence surrounding the catastrophe is
almost inconceivable The structure
was so cOmbustible that many of the
victims. if not most of them, might
have been burned alive without suffo-
cation. No sort of inspection seems TO
have been made in advance by the mu-
I nicipal or police authorities or by the
project of police.
MANY RTTRNED TO ASHES
Dr. Nachtel who has directed the am
bulance work says that the number
of bodies found gives a very inadequate
idea of the number of victims, as dOz-
ems were burned completely to ashes.
NJ Lepinez, the project of police who
is severely censured for lack OF proper
supervision of the preparatory arrange
ments. says in excuse that the patrons
and patronesses of the bazaar were re-
with their programme that they would
say he was trying to suppress a Ro-
man Catholic enterprise.
NJ Faure has received kilograms of
coincidence from Queen Victoria. the
Emperor Nicholas, the Emperor Will
lam. King Humbert and other sover-
eigns all couched in terms of the deep
est sympathy.
SHE WAS LUCKY.
Mrs. F. B. Gilmour, of New York,
had a narrow escape. She had con-
sented to act as a saleswoman at the
stall of Mime. Costa Beauregard. She
left the Hotel Terminus, where she was
staying, about 1870, accompanying the
VicOmtesse Savigny. The sale was go
ing well, when suddenly her maid
cried:
Madame. save yourself. There's a
fire"
Mrs. Gilmour, with wonderful pres
ence of mind. rushed toward the main
entrance but. seeing the danger of
being trampled to death, she ran
quickly back to the rear of the build
opened in the wall, through which she
soon reached the street
Mgr. Clari, the papal nuncio, who
had attended to pronounce his blessing
upon the bazaar, says he was talking
to the Duchess D'Alencon at $50
O'Clock. He adds:
Around me was a group of blind
children. Several of these must have
perished.'
The Vicomte Damase identified his
wires body by a piece of hair cloth
which she Wore next her skin as a
member of the third order of St. Fran
TRAMPLED IN A HEAP '14A
NJ Jean Raffaeni. the painter. saws:
NY uduSnter nad phe mark of q. heel
stamped into her back. She was
trampled in the heap at the door near
the main entrance. Her mother tried to
pull her out of the blazing fire. but she
said: It's useless; save yourself, as 1
shall die in any case
Her mother replied: I shall not
leave you. 1 will take you or stay and
die with you
Both escaped. though severely in
irred.''
The Able Marble saws the Comtesse
Villeneuve returned to search for her
two daughters. but failed to find them.
and persisted herself.
The ladies who succeeded in escaping
rushed frantically shrieking madly into
the courtyards of adjoining houses,
wildly beseeehing help. The fact that
the faces and heads of the dead were
so horribly charred and disfigured is
explained b. the fact that the capes
worn were generally of flimsy material.
and were the first articles of apparel to
catch Ere. The Marquise Luberrac is
in a critical condition.
Nine MathieyeIle had her whole body
blistered.
Mile. Liowelle was severely burned
about her back and head.
"FIREi HELP"
An eyewitness describes the scene as
follows:
The women mostly wore light cos
tunes, and those VINO ESCAPED from
the furnace We're screaming FIRE.
Helpr The faces of many We're covered
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