Show LAD LA IN ASHES appalling account of ortho the biag mug street theater firo fire five hundred lives lost in the catastrophe ce tu ny ily W 11 IT telex mr ti to J dec the wimer 1117 e meine whoso choso office is opposite the ill fated kins itin street theater gives i ves a graphic aau account of the catastrophe which the following is an extract with death in ill our beart heartland sand unable words to describe the pain which we we uro are called to chronicle a terrible calamity which befell bur our city today to day the ring theater formerly known netho as tile opera conrique Coni Cor ique is in allies alies and hundreds of baill buill human an beings b eings arc are the victims of a d catastrophe nothing like this horror herror has ever occurred before in it this city at a afire fire broke out the theater was W ws pretty well I filled but happily not entirely crowded A considerable number of people were still in their dressing rooms and a dense mass of carr carriages irgA were ivere outside it had just chmir snow and in the auditorium of the theater there was the tile usual bustle before the commencement of the perform performance anve pe people were walking epand up and down looking for their places and then alie noise oiso of turning in down seats was heard all around tho rii a boxes were still empty but ta alio to balcony and galleries were all filled on the stage everything was in a state of activity and nd bustle the workingmen removing scenery etc bachs comic opera les conics de was to be performed for the second time some sonie S onie of the singers and actors had already taken their places on the stage in costume but a large num number ber lie however wever mere mare still in the dressing rooms in the hands of costumers and hair dressers the overture had not yet begun how the fire commenced cannot yet bo be directly stated and probably it never will be known Accor according dinto to one version the scenery was ignited by a spark from the electric elec t ric machinery according to another a workman with an alcohol lamp caused the tile disaster the former version is in the themore more likely one director who was upon the stage was the first one to notice the tho fire in a moment after the flies ales were wrapped in ill names flames and the network of wood ropes and canvass was w as burning like tinder people on ho the stage were stupefied with fear and took flight in the most terrible confusion toward the ladies dr dressing assing rooms on the left side of the stage where a small staircase led to the open street in a moment the curtain blew blow up and anti the draft blew flames hither and thither until like fiery tongues they darted back and forth from the tho auditorium to the stage the fire became master of ring ill ng theater heater T firo fire fire the ring theater is on fire was the cry that went from fro mouth to ear flames were already burning through the roof and cries such as vienna never heard before filled the air they seemed not like the cries of lium human an beings but such accents as can be heard hear only in a death struggle the scene was indescribable all those inside the ill fated building in g were pressing their way towards all the street which was crowded at all point sand confusion reigned supreme suddenly cries were beard from the windows of odthe alie theater leading to the balcony over the entrance and it was soon I in it all flames 11 acs ics and the cries of those there at the windows and of those within tile theater were awful and swelled louder and louder the mass of people iri id the th street ostreet was growing denser constantly here occurs a break in the report all lie the morning papers publish long heartrending accounts of the catastrophe most of them place alio dead at and with the persons who were antho in alie fourth gallery yet to hear from front the number will be swelled to at least even policemen beem reluctant antto to speak ik odthe of the extent of the disaster in the upper gallery and neither firemen nor soldiers have aa as yet vet dared to penetrate enc to the tile dreadful scene A areman man who had assisted in bringing bri ngim out alie bodies from froni the thet third bird galle gallery being asked how low I many persons do you think there are a lne in in the fourth gallery 11 ery answered two hundred and I possibly three hundred who can tell they are there thick aa is aslica ashes wo we shall not know liow how man many y are dead until the people of vien vienna na have sent in missing ones to the police the ori origin in of the fire is not yet established nsw YOEK dec col map mackson eaon said regarding the vienna a fire it is is a wonder to me they do not have more of such fires than they do about five sixtos of the european theaters are constructed in just such a fashion that they are perfect traps iu in the caso of panics some of tile best london theaters seem to have been been built for the tile purpose of roasting feohl people e ground fronting on the street in the center of tho the town is so valuable that theaters are mostly built inside the block with tall hemming them in on oil every side and with exits long and narrow the tle ring theater has always occupied P ed a peculiar position among the nume numerous roas theaters in vienna so many managers nian aers failed there in succession that it got get to be regarded as a sort of managerial tomb nil the more so soon on of its furniture and decorations which were of the most sombre and uninviting description it was accordingly for most miscellaneous cel cellan laneous purposes such as exhibitions of by hansen etc year took charge of it and had it redecorated a new era of prosperity seemed to begin sarah bernhardt gave aye her recent performance there which was attended by the emperor and moat most of the people of note |