Show i THE RED DEATH The Fire Demon Blasts With His Terrible Breath Many Human Lives A Frightful Conflagration in New York City in WhIch Many People Perish lUnch Valuable Property Destroyed Including Sixteen Hundred Head of Horses The Fire Demon PAUIS May 27Tho work of searching for bodies was resumed tonight A number more were exhumed The official statement ered says fifty bodies have already been recov eredUeveilleon speaking in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon estimated that at least 200 persons had lost their lives in the fire V fireTho The Chamber of Deputies voted a credit of 200000 francs for the relief of sufferers by the Opera Comiquo fire Today 156 missing persons have been in quired for by relatives They are supposed to have perished in the flames Tho bottom of the theatre has been flooded with water to the depth of five feet Sixty bodies have been found floating in the water by fire men Among the audience at the Opera Comiquo Wednesday night was Gen Boulanger Gen Sanssier Gen Thibauldin M Goblet and M Bertholpt All escaped unhurt An nr feat tist named Phillipo performed a prodigious of valor in saving difeHo mounted a ladder three times and saved three dancers after they had been abandoned by tho fire men in line Favert A sndden gust of wind clearing away the dense smoke a woman and two men were seen standing in an angle of the cornice Tho woman tried to jump but tho men prevented her When all were finally rescued the woman was rav ing mad A singer had a miraculous escape from his dressing room in an angle at tho top of the building He says the wind kept the flames off that part of tho building but a river of molten lead poured from tho roof the course of which ho diverted with a board to prevent the weight carrying down tho floor Tho officials are endeavoring to underrate tho loss of life A largo number of bodies have been found NEW YOEK May 27 Flames broke out at tho south end of tho Belt Line stables this morning The building was entirely de stroyed with sixteen hundred horses and I nearly all the cars Two blocks were in flames The fire was first seen by onf of the night hands who gave tho alarm The flames spread rapidly and soon completely enveloped the building in their folds The building was a fivestory structure and cot ered a square block reaching back to Eigh teenth Avenue They were in flames so quickly that there was no chance to save the books oftho company In the stables I were over 1COO horses and several hundred cars Only tenhand cars were saved At 2 oclock the walls of the building fell in with a crash sending millions of sparks and blazing pieces of wood high in tho air Tho call of 36 had been made as soon as the fire chief arrived and engines from all parts of tho city with the Water Tower and Hook nnd Ladder fromTho flames was so great that several 1 policemen and two firemen were prostrated At 145 a m the flames aided by the strong wind which was prevailing had leaped across the wide avenue and communicated to the whole block on the east side The block was composed of sixstory tenements I and a coal yard The terrorstricken tenants ten-ants poured out of the building liken swarm of beespraying fighting and cursing by turns The scene of terror wasindecribable The buildings burned rapidly though the front facing the avenue were of brown stone By 230 they were completely gutted The flames spread to the entire square block over to Ninth Avenue At 230 a m the next block below had caught fire and was blazing The streets in the vicinity for blocks away were filled with frightened tenants fleeing from the ravages of the flames The fire attracted Thousands The loss to the Belt Line people is probablv i not less than 100000 The entire loss it is I estimated will be over 1000000 It is not known how tho firo originated A number of men slept in tho car stable Ambulances have been sent to the scene to be ready if I needed It is believed there has been a heavy loss of life A number of firoment and policemen police-men were overcome by the heat and sent to the Eoosnvelt Hospital Seventyfive dwellings dwell-ings mostly frame inhabited by poor people peo-ple a soap factory and a brewery are among the buildings burned A cixcrxxvri LAZE CINCINNATI May 2iThis morning a general gen-eral fire alarm called for help to tho burning street railway stables near the site of the old Brighton House stable nearly 450 feet long and contained about 150 street cars nnd over 300 horses There is a possibility of a loss of 100000 to 200000 if the stable is completely destroyed |