The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-08
GRIEF IN PARIS.
Mourning for the Victims of Tues
days Awful Fire.
Bodies Identified-Nine-
teen Others unrecognized-Duch
d'AIencon, Empress OF Anstria's
sister. Among the Dead.

sister. Among the Dead.
Paris, May GA somber feeling per-
vades every class of society. The news
papers without exception describe the
disaster at the Grand Bazaar dc Charlie
in the sober and simple terms hefitting
SO appalling an event. The catastrophe
will always be remembered as one of the
most fearful that ever befell European
city. Nothing comparable in loss Of life
has ever occurred here, except the fire
which destroyed the Opera Comique in
1887. Singularly enough, that disaster
happened in the same month OF the year,
and so persons were burned to death,
while As were officially registered as
missing.
Ii is now estimated that there were
about 200 persons in the building when
the fire was discovered, about one-half
Of whom escaped unhurt. Some esti-
mates place the number Of dead at l43,
others at a still higher figure.
! DR.. Nachtel, who has directed the
ambulance work. says that the number
! Of bodies found gives very made
|
as dozens were burned completely to
ashes.
Vicounte Damas identified his wife's
body by piece of hair cloth which she
wore next her skin as a member OF the
Third Order of st. Francis.
Able Marbol says that Comtesse VIII
leneuve returned TO search for her two
daughters, but failed TO find them and
persisted herself.
In arstocratic circles the numberlcss
dinner parties and other functions Of
gayly opening season have been sudden
ly abandoned.
f. Faure has received kilograms of
coincidence from Queen Victoria. EN-
peror Nicholas, Emperor William, King
Humbert and other soyereigns, all
couched in terms of the deepest sym
pathy.
The amount of administrative negli-
gence surrounding the catastrophe is
almost inconceivable. The structure
was so combustible that many Of the
victims, il not most OF them. must have
been burned alive, without sufrocation.
| No sort OF inspection seems to have been
!
lice authorities or by the project Of
police. M. Lepine, the project of police,
who is severely censured for lack of
proper supervision of the preparatory
arrangements, says in excuse that the
patrons and patronesses OF the bazaar
were reactionists and he feared. IL he
meddled with their programme, that
they would say he was trying to sup
press Roman Catholic enterprise.
During the afternoon the bodies of
Duchesse dAlencon and six others were
identified.
Duchesse d'Alencon mot Alercon)
was the sister OF the empress OF Austria
md sister Of the wife Of Prince Fer
dinand Of Orleans. She was duchcsse
OF Bavaria, and was born i'm 1s47 and
married in 1865. Her daughter, Princess
Louise. is married to Prince Alphons of
Bavaria, and her son, Prince Philippe, is
the husband of Princess Henrietta of
Belgium.
The former queen Of Naples is one of
her sisters. The duchesse was woman
of great wealth and one of the most
prominent ladies i'm France.
The remains Of the duchesse we're iden-
titled by her dentist, who examined the
teeth Of charred body which was be-
lieved to be hers.
Among the last TO escape from the
burning building was Baronne De Reu-
ter, formerly Miss Beatrice Potter OF
Philadelphia.
Former United States Consul-Gen-
eral S. T.. Morss said: ut was sim
gularly fortunate that there was only
one American victim. That was indeed
remarkable. because just now there is
an unusually large number Of Ameri-
cans in Paris. They are generous sup
porters OF such fetes as the grand ba-
zar de charlie, and. moreover il gave
them n favorable opportunity OF get
\ ting into close quarters with the aris-
/ tocracy and many of the celebrities Of
! Paris" Mrs. Porges was the only Amer
! lean victim She was n Miss Weisweil-
! Ter. Her daughter accompanied her to
the bazar and escaped uninjured. The
| Porges family resides in Vienna.
The scene on the Champs Eylsee is
| like that on popular fete days. The
throngs are enormous and multitudes
Of carriages are driving about From
time TO time a solemn hush falls upon
the crowd, and every head is barred as
| the hearse passes by.
At seven o'clock Wednesday evening
the police officials announced that o.
corpses had been positively identified.
There are 10 bodies still unidentified,
among which must be those Of Com
tesse de Lupe and Mime. Nitot's second
daughter. both OF whom are missing.
Viscountess Malezicux Is now placed
among those officially identified. NJ.
Gosse, the notary. on learning that his
wife and two daughters were among the
victims. was so FRUSTRATED that his life
* despaired OF.
NJ. Girard. director of the Municipal
laboratory. reports that the ether for
the lamps used in the kinemntograph
set fire 10 the film. the flames then ig-
/ ufttncy the apuarotue