The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-05

The bazaar altogether had eight doors, three in front and one on the left side, In the rear were four, like French win dows, which were specially reserved for the employees. The crowd near the main entrances was able to escape, but those at the other end, not knowing of the doors reserved for the employees, found themselves hemmed in as If in oul de sac.
 As the fire spread the pressure on the right side where there were no exits kept steadily increasing. Here a num- Der of the victims were crushed to death. Happily, the wall of the Hotel Du Palais, against whoch the bazaar connected, furnished a barred window Immediately upon the alarm being giv- en the servants hurriedly broke the bars and were able to rescue a large number.
 Suddenly above the roar of the flames were heard cries of terror and despair ing appeals for help from the cul de sac end, where the unfortunates were being burned alive. The firemen threw hundreds of buckets upon them from above at a great risk to themselves, but their courageous efforts were in vain. The fire made furious headway. HoWls of despair arose outside In the Avenue Montaigne, the Place Alma and the Rue Francois, adjacent streets Every available f1acre was taken by assault. The whole of the highest society in Paris Is in a pell-mell, a prey to the deepest despair, husbands seeking and calling for wives, and fathers seeking and calling for daughters. One young woman, still wearing on her breast the badge of stall attendant, was seen rushing about in her petticoat, her dress having been torn off to be thrown over a lady who was in flames. Her one anxiety was to find and tell her parents of her safety.
 Words would fail to describe the hor- TOT of the scene at the Palais de I'm dustries, where the bodies are laid. Here in a large room, rudely covered with rough blanks, the bodies as they arrive 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 SSoeoA'N tion in spite of disfigurement, bones visible through fire-eaten flesh, some merely skeletons or grinning skulls 'blackened with smoke.
 A large force of officials is engaged l in regulating the admission of friends at the entrance, which is beseiged by crowds shouting and fighting. Only small groups are admitted at time and the visitors are supplied with can 1 dies to assist them in their lugubrious | search. It is a strange scene, as they go groping about amid human debris 1 and turning over shapeless and unrec- ognizable masses of flesh.
 l At S:30 D. m. only six bodies have been recognized with certainty. They are the bodies of Mile. Henriette Him | ihsdal Baroness Elizabeth St. Martin, | Viscountess Marie Bormeval, Sister 1 Quinoux, the superior of the sisters of the convent of the St. Vincent de Paul 1 at Eaincy, Mademoisselle De Grancy
 and the Comtesse St. Perior. Other 1 bodies supposed to be recognized are 1 those of the Baroness St. Didier, Mad anne Laurent Cossellin and Mademois- selle Chevigny.
 As soon as President Faure heard of the disaster he sent the most pressing | inquiries for full particulars to the pre- feet of police All the theaters in
 Paris are closed tonight.
 Paris, May 5, 1 a. m.-Great crowds are still present at the scene of the dis aster where the workmen have already i a l,i io1, the fatal spot. During the evening M Hanatoux visited the scene and sum- moned the prefect of police, who took the names of all the inmates of the Ho- | tel du Palais with view, probably, of rewardng them for the rescue effected through the barred window, where the landlady of the hotel sat for hours looking at the scene beneath and re- counting indicents to visitors.
 Tn the center Is a caldron of pitch ablaze. From. time to time link bear CT dips his torch in the caldron, making it smoke with renewed energy. Ghostly figures are moving slowly around among the corpses. Reporters are talk 1 ing notes In the center is a huge pile of coffins. When a body is identified ii is immediately placed in one of these | and sent home. Nuns, with hands fold ed on their breasts, following with the | weeping relatives.
 | The firemen found a cash box con- tairfng about 10000 francs and a lot of money melted by the fierceness of the heat The days takings were SOC i pounds It is impossible yet to ascer- tain with any degree of certainty the number of victims, but it is stated that there are 116 corpses now in the Palais l de Industries.