Show E ro TELEGRAPHIC NEW II I f THE GREAT FIEF Ii = Solemn and Sorrowful Funeral f A Common Grave for 7 0 Persons More Particulars or the Catastrophe Catas-trophe Heartrending Details Most Foul and Criminal 1hieg licence New York ISAt St Stephens Cathedral there were present the Crown Prince Rudolph and Dukes Carl Ludwig Lud-wig Marl Salrator Johann Salvator Al orient Wilhelm Leopold Runer Franz Frienand Leopold Salvator and Eugene Prince Hopenloki Count Cren nevilleJOount Hunyadie of the imperial household Barou Phslip ouch with generals of the army and their staff ministers and their deputies and other officials TheOrown Prince and archdukes were met at the porch by the prince The arcbishop assisted by the cathedral l chapter celebrated mass for the dead Heartrending sobs and moaning drowned the words of the priests and mingled with the voices of the choir who rendered render-ed Lieo Irfti from Gottfried with prayers of requiem and the clang of the great bell of tre cathedral The Crown Prince of Austria future emperor was deeply affected His eyes were filled with tears and he was crying bitterly Seeing an old man apparently a workman who was in great grief holding one of the pillars for support the Crown Prince went to him and held the poor mans hand for a long time At the cemetery a damp wind chilled thousands of the spectators The sun scarcely penetrating pene-trating the clouded sky The band I played Bethovens Tannermarsch then came the procession the Catholic clergy led by the domprobst and ministers mini-sters of the Greek church A chorus of all denominations assisted by achorus of the Grand opera then intoned the death ohorile The domprobst began the ceremonial according to theCatholic and after he had passed along the semicircular semi-circular row of coffins consecrating them as he passed the odor of incense filled the air The ceremony was terrible in its effect on the people one poor woman even crying out fire fire inner terror The burgomaster cast the first handful of earth on tho first coffin as large crowds of mourners stood or knelt around the grave weeping bitterly Among the poor old creatures some were ready for the grave themselves There were also strong working men who cried like children young girls who had lost brothers and lover j aud children who eould hardly understand the grief and sorrow around them One poor man and his wife came to me imploringly and asked Can you tell me wo is number 687 I pointed to the number and asked him Did you lose anybody He burst out crying and said lI My daughter she went with a friend to the third gallery The other came to us at 7 but she never returned home II Painful Pain-ful interest was caused by the eighth coffin numbered 165 It was very small apparently containing the body of a child but in it were the remains of a once beautiful woman the wife of an engineer Her body was burned to a cinder and she was only identified by the jewels she wore when she dressed for the theatre One large coffin contained the bodies of two brotners who had been allowed by their parents to celebrate their birthday by visiting the theatre They were f una in the third gallery tightly clasping each others neck Over the large grave in the Friedhof a monument is to be erected and it is proposed pro-posed that the Ring Theatre should be razed and in its place a monument erected to the thousand victims who perished per-ished there Strange to say this proposition propo-sition meets with approval in spite of the value of the ground on which the building build-ing stands for there is a superstition among the people of Vienna that the very site is accursed Ic was here that Robert Blum wag shot and after him many others were hanged and shot on the same spot At that time the legend began that the curse of God would rest on the place for all time Perhaps it was thie curse that has made five or six managers man-agers of the Ring Theatre bankrupt since 1874 It certainly seems to have rested on Jauners directorship The anger of the Viennese against the directors and the police is very great Two hundred thousand people gathered on the Scbotten Ring yesterday afternoon after-noon and many of the workmen among them were loud in their threats of vengeance ven-geance and so serious did the officials consider the situation that they ordered all the troops kept in their barracks and to have double ammunition given them in readiness for an outbreak It was feared that Jauners residence would be attacked but people went home and the night passed quietly Every day brines new facts about the criminal carelessness of themanagement of the Ring Theatre and selfish cowardiceof those engaged on the stage A uerson who was one of the stage managers at the Ring writes a letter let-ter to a Vienna paper stating his conviction con-viction that the fire originated below the stage floor and had there gathered strength before it appeared among the scenery Tois read by the light of the little paragraph which appears in this mornings papers may be worthy of consideration con-sideration as pointing to the CAuse of the fire About ten days ago during a re hearsal smoke was noticed on the stage issuing from below The workman en trusted with the removal of rubbish had swept it into a corner of the place below and to save himself trouble was burning it up Two pianos and a quantity of music and costumes were actually saved from off the stage This shows that if the massive iron door at the rear of the stage which wasselfishly opened by those on the stage to effect their own escape had been left closed the fire might have been confined there at least till the audience escaped as the draft through that door blew the flames into the auditorium I may reeapitulate varieties of causes that finally resulted in this terrible disaster First the theatre was built with a laby rinth of passages and narrow stairs second the doors opened into the audi torium and galleries third the firemen I employed as scene shifters were absent ab-sent instead of being at their posts fourth nobody was prepared to lower the safety curtain fifth the oil lamps were neglected and never lighted sixth the gas was turned off without necessity seventh though there was sufficient time the audience were not appraised of their danger from the stile eight safety exits f had never been used and were firmly locked ninth the fire alarm was out of order and the l fire department could not be communicated with tenth the large iron door ottho back of the stage was opened probably in order to save the stage properties eleventh the firemen first entered the theatre from the back I part of the stage which was almost untouched un-touched The fire had been driven into the auditorium audi-torium They said that the people were sitting in i the first row of the fourth gallery gal-lery as it asleep their heads resting on the cushioned front of the balcony The fire department was insufficient and the police incredulous They refused to believe be-lieve the cries of tho rescued that hundreds hun-dreds were yet inside and no attempt was made to penetrate the theatre until half an hour after tho first rush of people into the lobbies New York j13 Heralds Vienna The bodies of 126 victims of the disas at tha Ring Theatre were intered at the Central Friedhof yesterday by their friends Today 151 were placed in a vast common grave that before it closes will have received the few chared remains and ashes of 700 more of the victims 01 those now buried only 125 have been identified the rest are unrecognizable unrecog-nizable by their friends or relatives itholicsProtestants Greeks and Je > s all rest together Tne priests of all four confessions joined in todays interments inter-ments at the Central Friedhof each forgetting for-getting their religious rivalry in tho common sorrow of the people It was a solemn and touching ceremony 20000 people had walked a long four or five miles to the great cemetery Some places of business ware coaed arid black flags were suspended in front of the cathedral cathe-dral of St Stephens and from large public buildings Vienna 12The upper house of the Eeichsrath voted 50000 florins in uid of the suffeers of the theatre fire thus completing com-pleting the action of the lower house The Roumanian government subscribed 200000 florins An American was recognized among the dead taken from the ruins Berlin 13The Emperor William is greatly moved by the Vienna calamity and has ordered that most extensive measures of precaution be adopted at the court theatres After the requiem at the cathedral the funeral ceremonies commenced at the cemetery The infantry cavalry and police maintained order on either side of the imposing catafalque upon which several hundred lighted candles stood here were seventy metallic coffins Those containing unidentified remains were numbered the others bearing the names of the people whose bodies were enclosed All around were abundant plants and wreaths provided by mourners mourn-ers and several Vienna corporations Many mourners were present The funeral procession included the entire common council many members of the Reichsrath representatives from various theatres and members of the aristocracy After the service the burgomaster burgomas-ter made an address He spoke of the grief felt in Vienna Austria and in the world at the terribe calamity The entire number of coffins were then lowered into one common grave The police arrangements at the fmeral were very bad No attempt was male to stop ordinary traffic The cortege was continually interrupted The probable real number of victims will never be known Names have been falsely entered in the lists missing by persons wishing to obtain cards of admission admis-sion to view the bodies at the hospitals and in some instances a positive trade has been done in sub cirds The workjof lowering the coffins into the graves lasted from nom until nightfall The number of missing persons is reported re-ported to be 805 Vienna 13Twentyseven bodies were removed from the ruins of the Ring Theatre yesterday also a quantity of fragments of bodies feet and hands which were not burned |