Show t EXCITEMENT IN ANCIENT ROME I HI Hall of in to tin tie Yiti VaU can aiR Sit 1 I GREAT DAMAGE RESULTED 4 POPE PIUS TU TJI WORX 03 0 j I T J Nor 1 Tire broke INoke oat at S I JK to Sa that portion of the vail cap caa containing the tile ball U of f ties u where the pope ppe given give v his audi audie e and aud a which b is ii adjacent to the fa ta famous moss or gallery aue of pictures The TIle earned caused much attach confusion and a In Sa the tM Vatican Strenuous even effort me re mate made ma to control the flames and Ud the firemen of at Rome were wars called to lend cad theIr help At ti t ac II quarter put pest U n Uthe Uthe the Are Ire was wan as under control No lives live U were lost loot No idea of th damage sig can canyet canyet yet Ye be obtained TIM The pope t came to the seth scene In person sad and remained re until the arrangements to fight the fire are were made The fire caused a greater sensation In iii Rome than any other U event nt since eluce the i death of Pope Leo Lee The be safety of the pope was the first thought In every ewry I ones oems mind but this was soon soo assured When the pontiff arrived at the scene he bo ordered every eve one oae to assist in Ia ex en the flames amee Smoke r ecI d I The first intimation of fire was wu bad when smoke was seen pren Issuing from froIn the apartment of M Marie MaW which bleb is ill l located above that of Father Ehrle the librarian woo who be lIved over ov r the library itself M L Is a celebrated French restorer of ancient and illuminated books boka be he U is I at present pleM t engaged In hi copy lag ing a work ork and arid his b first lint reproductions have been selected for tor part of sf the Vatican exhibit at the St Louis exposition Uon lh The famous famo a Bramante staircase lead to that part of ot the Vatican where the fire tire broke brok out The gendarmes gendarme broke blOu In the doors I of M K Marie Maries apartment and found him aim himin m in a hea heavy h av sleep It is S supposed be he te re retired tired and forgot to take proper 1 with his Id kitchen fire which proba probably bly bh bl blazed biased up and Ignited some acme nearby draperies The fire tire started and aDd it rapid rapidly 1 ly h assumed such BU b proportions that the tho th gendarmes who ho were the first on the scene 8 ne gave an immediate general alarm The Th whole palace awoke to instant life The Swiss guards ard the papal firemen I gendarmes gendarme priests and domestics all aU aUro rushed ro bed hither and thither in ignorant i nt contusion confusion asking what was the matter matt no one knowing where or what bat the dan daa danger da daer ger gor er was w or what to do Pope at Prayers News Ne of the fire tire was waa Immediately l con conveyed v to te the pope who was waa found kneel lay in ta hie bis chapel for his hi usual sass evening prayer He insisted ln on going at once to the tM scene notwithstanding the fact that I be Ie was w begged to think first fint of his hi own safety He was accompanied by Mgr Nervy Merry Del Val the papal secretary of 01 state Mgr KIP the papal major domo dome and Mgr and ancI followed by the members of the noble guard attached to person The moment be he arrived his bis mind ad JD grasped giue the gravity of the situation and be t firemen of Rome and although they t four engines e with h the t MX were at u s OB ready to Ow w Kin it t to the best way War to get t sufficient water sup supply ply with which to fight the fire tift In the meantime the flames had begun to break breakout breakout out of ot the windows window of M Navies Maries lay apart apartment apartment ment m nt and were destroying the tbt roof TOe T e ena names flame na lighted up ap the entire district and I gave pye the impression that nothing could atop stop their fury fun When the fire engines thI nea began betran working three rooms were mere already entirely eDdrel destroyed by the flames were extending to the other apartments apartment in the Vatican The pope withdrew as soon as u he saw that everything possible was wag being done aone Information had been sent to the Italian authorities They were courteously in tn invited invited to enter and did so 80 Therefore for forthe or orthe the first time since the tall fall of the power of 01 the Vatican the mayor maor of ot Rome an ani 3 j even Ten Signor Ronchette the newly ap appointed appointed appointed pointed minister of Ju Justice tl entered the Vatican in their official capacities T 1 gave r orders directing the t work and par participated personally in the e fight It was waa wasa a very difficult fire to overcome ove mE there tb were a number of old and inflammable objects In the t apartment of M Marie Mark full of combustibles The competition be between between tween the papal firemen and the firemen of Rome to see who should work the bar har harder barder der tier and do the most moet resulted in a din dis display C play of courage which was wa really admirable r rable able some of the fire fighters risking their lives until they were restrained by their superiors No Estimate of Damage At a little after 11 t fire On was under control but t the work ork of the fire tift firemen firemen I men will continue for some ome time tune It is doubtful If they win will leave the scene ne be before before before fore tomorrow night Fresh relays relay of oC men were being sent to relieve e those who wf ie t have exhausted themselves The entire museum eum mU of inscriptions in the rooms of or Father Ehrle Ehrl pert part of the library and aDd the printing houses bouses were W entirely flooded ed with water watt r It is impossible ble to r reach aeh even an approximate idea kiN of the extent of dam darn damage age Many articles were saved including fag ing some ancient and erv verr valuable arms which were recently moved to the library room from the Borgia Boa apartment apart nt Many things thin that escaped Heaped the flames nam were in injured lured by water |