Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The 10-s of life by the Cpt<xa Comiquo fire nt Paris is much greater than at first supposed. Sixty bodies had been Recovered up to Thursday evening. In the Chamber a Deputy estimated the number who perished at 2JO. A credit of 200,(DO francs was voted' for the relief of the suffers. A special from Paris says: The consternation caused by the Opera Comique disaster was increased to-night by a terrible discovery, similar to that made after the burning of the Brooklyn Theater in December, 18<6. At 11 o'clock tae pompier's, working with picks, came upon u mass of human remains, from which they dragged forty

corpses. Many are now believed to be in the debris of the theater. The following are the latest official figures-: Total number of bodies found, twenty eight of whom were identified ; thirteen severely wounded; sixty slightly wounded.; 100 missing—that is to say, those reported to the police as having gone to the Opera Comique Wednesday night, but who have not turned up. This brings the total list up to 226. Nearly all the bodies are those of well-dressed persons ; many still have on their gloves. The bodies were twisted into stiange, weird shapes; some seemed broiled as if on a gridiron. Under the debris of a narrow staircase was a group of seven corpses whoso charred and blackened members were intertwined in almost Laocoon ooils. One of these was that of a woman whose face was literally roasted like an overdone piece of beef. In her ears glistened a large pair of solitaire diamond ear-rings. The right arm was fractured ; the left arm was wound about a smaller corpse, appearantly that of a girl about twelve years old, probably her daughter. The other corpses of this group were so black and so mangled that it was almost impossible to say whether they were the remains of human beings or of animals. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill to increase the army. f-EVENTY-iTYB bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Opera Comique at Paris. The number of victims is now placed at one hundred. A Calcutta cab’.e reports that a cyplone has completely devastated the district of Orissa, India. A etoimer with 753 persons on board was caught by the cylona, and is believed to have been lost A cable dispatch from Paris states that M. Rouvier has formed a cabinet, as follows: M. Rouvier, Premier and Minister of Finance. M. Flourens. Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Spuller, Minister of Justice. M. Fallieres, Minister of’lnterior and of Public Worship. Gen. Saussior, Minister Of War. Admiral Jaures, Minister of Marine. M. Develle, Minister of Agriculture. M. Etienne, Minister of Public Works. M. Cochery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. M. Berkelot, Minister of Public Instruction. The cabinet is composed, the dispatch says, of moderate Republicans, or of the union of the left, and the operation will be a trial of reaction against radicalism, militarism, and socialism. The party of the Right, with a sense of their own security, have promised the new ministry full support A cable dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland, reports a terrible explosion in a coal pit eight miles from that city. Forty-five miners, who wen imprisoned in the upper seam of the pit, were rescued, but one of them died after being brought to the surface. Access to the lowest seam, where seventy men were confined, was for several hours blocked by the debris tumbled down by the explosion. It was in this seam that the explosion occurred. When it was finally reached, it was too late to rescue any of the miners who were at work there. Not one of the unfortunate men was found alive. The total number of lives lost by the explosion is placed at seventy-five.