Show THEY ONLY REMEMBER A STRUGGLE 5 Stories Told by the Survivors of the Terrible Tragedy in Moscow MANY BELIEVE IT A MIRACLE Nearly 1300 Victims Vere Burled Bur-led Yesterday i iI I I Great Number of Unidentified Dead Placed In Eleven Large Trenches Mutilated Bodies Packed Clone Together to Find Room for Them All Six Hundred Grave Diggers Kmployed Grief all Terror Over the Sudden Calamity Among the SimpleMinded Peasantry MOSCOW June 1he burial of the victims of Saturdays disaster went on all night and is still progressing amid scenes of grief Only mourners are admitted ad-mitted to the cemetery There were 1277 victims buried today The bodies of those who were identified i and claimed by relatives were interred in private graves but at the expense of the municipal authorities The great number of unidentified dead were buried in eleven great trenches each fifty yards long The trenches were deep and the i mutilated bodies have to b placed close together to find room for them all There were 600 workmen engaged all night long at the Vaganovskoe cemetery digging the graves Many priests prominent among them being John of Cronstadt famous foe his piety and his power to console and who i is believed bY the peasants to heal and many military chaplains conducted the funeral services the friends crowding around the graves The surviving friends and relatives are for the most part of the ignorant and simpleminded peasant classes and their grief and terror p sudden calamity was expressed in avery a-very demonstrative fashion The scenes at the cemetery were pitiful and terrible in the extreme Only about half the bodies recovered have been identified and the majority of these are men though there are many children and several old t people The survivors have the vaguest possible idea of what happened to them and hOw they escaped They only remember a terrible struggle in the vortex of conflicting con-flicting human muscular energy Many of them ascribe their escape to a direct miracle I is touching to witness how these poor ignorant people help to console con-sole eacn other to dress the dead and to care for the children This afternoon the czar gave a banquet to the representatives of all the estates in his realm The loreign representatives were also present In the afternoon the czar and czarina czana visited the hospital where they spent some time consoling the patients injured in Saturdays crush |