| Show lib I 1AltlS 1IOKIIU1I Now the whole clrlllieJ world Is shocked it t Ibo terrible holocaust in rafts I How many victim there will bets a matter ol some uncertilnty yet but tbe number roaches Into be hundreds In the toes of borneo llc compiled with the awful event ot Tuesday afternoon evn the vast I I Mlislnlpol floods become dwarfed It ll I Idle 10 descant on Ibo preventive measures that might have been taken II the flee bad been anticipated at probable there would have been no crowd to become paojo stricken to ft t rub over and trample down each other and to be tortured to dtath by the llery demon In almost everyplace I every-place where large crowds assembled as-sembled at fain and cxblbl 0 p1 lions llio very oalureof tiles tile-s l groRllon there makes possible In a grllr oct easer degree Joel lucia oc currenceB as Hilt and no reasonable exercise foretlght seems eflectlvo In preventing them The great French city has bad IDoumrabla wber a aIm liar disaster uould have occurred If a flee had Marled ai this one did and to have other lame cities But It leeml to have been resirveJ for a eoolely baiar given under the patronage of the moat refined and best Informed elms 01 cltlzo and for ODe 01 the noblest ot purposes that ot giving obarltable aid to thote In teed to furnlib the mol appalling dIsaster ol modern times upon tat occasion when all was expected to be joy and gobs will Ai word are tee fetbla to picture fully the awful cranes of the catastrophe 10 they fall abort of expressing tbo sympathy and sorrow felt for the unfortunate victims and theIr famlllei and nerds The steal French capital Is lu Ibo deepest mere leg and unit time being at least Is comlortleis while the whole civilized I world bowa In sympitbetlc grle The tad calamity seemi to add one older I proof allu the preaeot day the very elements are teeming with death as In the closing daa of R worJa < career |
