Show THE PARIS FIRE I I he t Worst of the Details Not Yet Told A VERITABLE HOLOCAUST jjecovoring the Dead Bodies of Choristers Chor-isters Ballet Girls and Machinists More to be Pound Etc I The Holocaust PARIS May 26The bodies of the ballet dancers who lost their lives by the burning of the Opera Comique last night are lying in heaps in the ruins of the theatre The firemen assert that many bodies are lying in the upper illeries The number of persons killed greatly exceeds the previous estimates An excited crowd surrounds the ruins which are guarded by a military cordon cor-don tb Twenty bodies in a terribly mutilated condition have been recovered from the ruins The remains are principally those of ballet girls choristers and machinists ma-chinists Twenty more bodies were recovered this afternoon from the ruins of the Theatre Comique The search continues The remains of three men and two women were found in a stage box where the victims had taken refuge fr m the flames It is ascertained that many bodies lie buried in the upper galleries where escape was exceedingly difficult Government propose to close several Paris theatres because of their deficiency de-ficiency in exits Late this afternoon the bodies of eighteen ladies all in full dress were feu ad lying together at the bottom of the staircase leading from the second story These ladies all had escorts to the theatre but no remains of men were found near where the women were burned to death The walls of the theatre began falling this evening and search for the bodies had to be abandoned aban-doned for the day The library attached at-tached to the theatre was entirely destroyed des-troyed with all its contents including many valuable scores Six thousand costumes were burned in the wardrobe The work of searching for the bodies was resumed tonight A number more were ezhnmed The official statement says fifty bodies are already recovered Reveilleon speaking in the Chamber 01 Deputies this afternoon estimated that at least 200 persons lost their lives in the fire Amone the audience at the Ooera Comique last night were General JBou laager General Saussier General Thi bauldlon Al Goblet and M JJerthelot All escaped unhurt An artist named Phillipe performed a prodigious valor in saving life He mounted a ladder three times and saved three danseuses after they had been abandoned by the firemen In the Rue Favart a sudden gust of wind cleared away the dense smoke when a woman and two men were seen standing in an angle of the cornice Ihe woman tried to jump but the m ° n prevented her When all were finally rescued the woman was raving mad A singer had a miraculous escape from a dressing room in an angle at the top of the building build-ing He says the wind kept the flames off that part of the building but a river of molten lead poured from the roof the course of which he diverted with a bOt > rd to prevent the weight carrying down the floor Officials are endeavoring endeavor-ing to underrate the loss of life A large number of bodies have been found 1 |