Year: 1876

PROGRESS OF THE RELIEF FUND.


The excitement occasioned by the dreadful disaster


the Brooklyn Theatre had scarcely abatcd yester-
day. All day long eager crowds continued to gather
Washington and Johnson streets catch glimpse
OF the ruins, while many anxious relatives in search
OF missing ones tearfuly scrutinized the remains or
the victims at the edeadnouses. The disaster still
the theme OF tongue, and TO many inagn tons
the enacted that fatal spot the
discovery OF the fire in the flies came back WV
Idly even than in the first wild excitement OF tho
catastrophe. 1t may not bo Improbable to recall
these scenes now that the blood is cooler and
heart beats less tumultuous From the first lurd
fame which shot out with devastating power from
lhc broken border light to the last sob over some
tharred body recognized by sign clear only 10 the
eye OF Affection every incident and episode OF the dis
has living and present interest Tho stage
sccnc with its quartet of characters the boatmans
hut the mantle OF flame bursting out from the pro-
sccnium in the presence Of the audience the sudden
fright Of the people and tho appeals OF the players,
The momcntary silence and the mad stampede, the
Ipair of the imprisoned victims, tho angry rush
Of tho flame and tho suGocating embraces OF the
smokc the fall OF the galleries. the crumbing of the
walls the OF tho multude the street, tho play
OF the water the flames and embers and the dread
calm which followed, are not mere catalogue of dire
ful events following each other IN rapid succession,
but series of sereoscopc pictures photographed by
sympathy and suffering upon the imagination


THE NIGHT AFTER TIL. FIRE.


II was fearful day and night which succeeded the
night OF tho disaster. but its awful reality
scarcely felt in that Of supreme agony There
wcrc the fallen walls Of the edince and the outside
the surgng mass OF citizens trying TO catch glimpse
OF The terrible work going forward within. Within
the OF debris half conceang, half reveal
ing The heaps oil dead beneath. 1t was sight which,
seen could be forgotten AT the entrances
were the ambuances waiting for the dead or bearing
them the temporary morgues after another
In sad procession At the morgues the gloom OF
DEATH terribly heightened by the sghs OF anxiety and
ihe distresscs of discovery. Sorrow every
rounenance. At every step almost were little knots
Of men discussing the event in all Ifs phases. over
and again the the stairway de-
scriUed. until the descriptions began to have
thing OF the awe OF reality. Tho death of the two
comedians Murdoch and Burroughs. was on every
tongue, and with tho plants of for their fate
mingled tho praises mertcd by the ardor OF their
youth and their ambition. 1t thus the day
and the night began but the search Tor the dead
not discontinued for a moment, until II was be-
levcd the last body had been iound.


THE TUE DISASTER


1t was not CERTAIN howcver--it Is not certain
oow-that the bodies have all been recovered. when
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found under the debris of the dress circle Wcdncs
day morning hoped that all the fruits the
rble search had been gathered Yesterday, however,
three more bodies were discovered and st others
may be found before the debris is all removed. Tho
grand total far 29.. Twelve workmen we're n
gagged In the ruins during the day Every stroke of
the pick almost revealed some mcmento of the mimic
nrt to which the edincc had been devoted The Chief
OF Police, superntended tho work, every and
then kicked with his foot OF the memcntoes of
the plays and the players left by the devouring flames
Now II was battered shield helmet used in tho
procession in tho first Of Julius Cesar y
Thon 1t piece OF theatrical wardrobe detached
from the person who II or torn away the
crash OF falling walls and timbers and buried in
the ashes and mortar. Again, it was a bit OF stage
carpet or scenery, or other evidence OF the uses 10
which tho house lad been put. 1t thus tho third
day after the catastrophe and night again
settled on the Of such has not been
before under like Al the deadhouscs
tne recognition OF lost relatives fewer and fewer
but the removal OF tho bodies and the preparations
for sepulturc took tho place o. the agonizng actions
OF tho previous eight anc forty hours. Some OF tho
dead buried yesterday, bu. most Of the victims
VIII bo carried 10 thor last resting place to-day and
tsls mornings vii! rise upon the saodcst and most
solemn part OF the ceremonies consequent. upon this
terrible disaster All bnt eighty bodies had up last
night been identified The whole city OF Brooklyn Is In
mourning and the flags all at half-mas and will
remain until the last sad scene In the sorrowful
episode IS enacted. The city Hail has been crapcd ia
mourning and many private cdhccs along the principal
thorouaniarcs display great iessoons Of black and
white muslin. The City Hail. within stones throw
Of the Of tho fatal accident looks sad ana sol
emn n iss gloomy adornment. more lavish display
OF mourning drapery has been vouchsafed the pub


c eye tho manifested It's grief at Lincolns
death To-day the funeral OF the unrecosniaed victims
lakes place; but then the grief will not be past,
AMI the burning Of the Brooklyn Theatre will long cast
Q gloom over the City OF Churches.


AT THR MoRGuH.


Yesterday at the Morguc was quieter and perhaps
more sorrowfu day than the before. Many bodies
had been removed by loving friends and those that
manned were for the most part unidentified. They
lay In the same positions, and the large gaps in the
lines made by the removal OF the identified seemed to
mako those that remained horrible In their
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