The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-06

before 4 O'clock He adds: "Arou..,.
me was a group of blind children. Sew
eral OF these must have perlshed. My
heart is bleeding to think of all those
poor creatures. II is too horrible to
speak Of My nerves are in a terrible
state"
The Vicomte Damas Identified his
wife's body by a piece Of haircloth,
which she wore next her skin as a
member of the Order of St Francis.
M. Jean Raffaelli, the painter says:
My daughter has the mark of a
heel stamped into her back. She was
trampled in the heap at the door near
the main entrance. Her mother tried
to pull her from the blazing fire, but
she said: It is useless; save yourself
as l shall die in any case Her mother
replied: I shall not leave you / will
take you, or stay and die with you.
Both escaped, though severely in
jured"
The Able Marriott says that the Com
tesse Villeneuve returned to search
for her two daughters, failed to find
them, and perished herself.
DR.. Nachtel who has directed the
ambulance work, says that the mum
Der of bodies found gives a very in
adequate idea of the number Of vic
Tins, as dozens were burned com
pletely to ashes. 1t is estimated now
that there were about 1900 persons In
the building when the fire was dis
covered, about one-haIf Of whom es-
capped unhurt. Some estimates place
the number of dead at 143 others at a
still higher figure,
Michael Heine, the manager Of the
bazaar, admitted last evening that the
arrangement was evidently i'll made
adding
I'VE ought to have foreseen that
| such a disaster as this was possible
but the stalls have been increasing
| every year, and we were very anxiou.
not to lose an inch of ground"
| The unidentified bodies as well as
/ the Jewels recovered from the debris
/ have been photographed by the Ber
| tillon method, and the funeral servic,
| of the victims has been fixed for tn,
cathedral Of Notre Dame. M. Faur,
Will attend, and Pere Richard will
probably oficiate.
A somber feeling perVades every
class of society. The newspapers, with
/ out exception, describe the disaster a
the Grand Bazaar de Charlie in tn,
/ sober and simple terms behtting s,
appalling an event. The catastrophe
will always be remembered as one o
| the most fearful that ever befell Eu
ropean city. Nothing comparable II
loss Of life has ever occurred here, ex
cept the fire which destroyed tn,
Opera Comique in 1887 SingularI,
enough, that disaster happened in tn
same month of the same year, and s
persons were burned to death, Will
As were officially registered as missing
In aristocratic circles the number
less dinner parties and other function
of a gaily opening season have beei
suddenly abandoned,
The amount Of administrative negll
gence surrounding the catastrophe /
almost inconceivable The structur
was so combustible that many of tn
victims, If not most OF them, mus
have been burned alive, without suffo
cation. No sort of inspection seems {
have been made in advance by tn
municipal or police authorities.
M. Lepine, the prefect of police VIII
is severely censured for lack of prope
supervision of the preparatory al
rangements, says in excuse that tn
patrons and patronesses of the bazaa
were Reactionists, and he feared If h
meddled with their program that the
would say he was trying to suppres
a Roman Catholic enterprise.