The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-07
HORRIBLE DISASTER
A Fatal Fire at a Fashionable Ba-
zaar In Paris.
MANY PERSONS CRUSHED TO DEATH.
The Place Was Crowded With Sightseers,
Most of Whom Were Women, Who,
Being Unable to Escape, Were
Trampled UnderfOOt.

Paris, May 5.-Fire, followed by pam
ic, has caused the loss of fully 100 lives
and the injury of several hundred per-
sons. 1t occurred at a crowded charity
bazaar in the Rue Jean-Goujon, at
which the Duchess Dues and other
well known patronesses were present.
The bazaar was a temporary structure
of wood and was erected in the flimsi-
est manner, the nudity of the scaffold-
ing inside being concealed by tapestry
hangings of the most infiammable ma
terial. Moreover, there was only one
exit.
The flames were first discovered
above the stall occupied by the Duchess
Dues and while the place was dense
ly crowded with we'll known society
people, the holding of the bazaar in the
cause of charity being an annual func-
ton presided over by the leaders of
Partisan society.
AS a somewhat remarkable coinci-
dence, the stall presided over by the
Duchess dues was No. Is.
A terrible panic and crush followed
the alarm of fire. There was a wild
lush lOI the emil, anu Ine weaker per-
sons were trampled on after having
been knocked down in the stampede.
The inflammable nature of the building
and its contents caused the flames to
spread with great rapidity and in a
very short time the bazaar was a mass
of flames.
In spite of the efforts of the firemen,
some time elapsed before the charred
bodies could be pulled from the smok-
ing and burning mass of debris cover
ing the spot which but a short time
before had been the scene of so much
display of the most fashionable spring
toilets.
The police officials say they believe
1t to be certain that the number of
deaths would exceed 100 recalling the
terrible fire in the Opera Comique.
A Hundred Lives Lost.
A hundred corpses have been taken
from the ruins and laid out in the
Palais d'l Industrio. 1t is believed that
another hundred are beneath the smol-
dering debris.
The missing, who are supposed to be
dead, include General Mounior, the
Marchioness de Gallifot, the Duchess
d'Aloncon, the Comtesses de Nun and
st. Porior, the Warehouses de Flores
the Viscountess Hunol Holstein, Bar
oness Mackan. wife of the leader of the
Pro-Rallsts in the chamber of depu-
ties, and Madame Northumberland, her
son and four daughters.
All the cabinet ministers now in Paris
went Immediately to the scene. Hun
dreds of equipages streamed along the
IL 1t.
with anxious and tear stained faces,
inquiring for their relatives. There
were many heartrending scenes.
Cabinet ministers, ambassadors. no.
blemen and members of the highest
social and financial circles were side by
side with the lowliest and poorest. anx-
iously inquiring for their missing rela-
tives About 80 were saved by Pierre
Ambrose and Pierre Bailly, who helped
them over a wall with ladder to the
printing room of the newspaper La
Croix.
The Duchess d'Aloncon, sister of the
Austrian empress. is among the in
jured. The list also includes the Ouch
ess Dues. the Countess Savigny, Nine.
d. Laboulaye, the Duchess de Latorre,
the Princess Kotchonbey, the Vicom-
Jesse d'Avenel and Mines. Moreau, Du
Breuil, Malezieux. Eugene Challema,
Recamier and st. Didier.
In the streets adjacent to the bazaar
were long lines of sumptuous equl-
pages. The most of these returned
empty. Their owners were dead. The
others were seen moving off with occu-
pants injured in head or limb and in
many cases with faces streaming with
blood.
Sentenced For Horse Stealing.
Norwich, Conn.,, May 5.-Charles
Conley of Lowell, Mass, pleaded guilty
to horse theft and was sentenced to
two years in the state prison.