The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

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Tnk CaVaantriglill llnturniiii.—Telasn wine
Bowen lot'.—The work of excoriating an,l warclosig
the ruins was continued without interruption during
Tuesday night without coining upon anv inure dead
bodies; but about nine o'clock on Wednesday isiormug,
on raising part of the broken flooring near the aaa
gable, the feet of • body were discovered sticking out
of the debris. Efforts were made to extricate the body
by removing with due care the rubbish, bedschathee, and
broken wood under whirl, it was buried, and it required
fully two hours' hard labour before this could beeffeeted.
The body was gut out about • quarter paid eleven o'clock,
and turned out to he that of • woman about 45 years el
age. The body was ninth bruised arid mangled, as well
as decomposed. it was immediately removed to the
police-office, and was shortly afterwards identified as
that id Miss Agnes (LudtHer, a lame woman, who occu-
pied • maid' house on the third fiat. About half-past
ten o'clock at night Lao bed, were raised and removed
in the front of the building, when the bodies of two lads
were found dose together. (Ms of them (ems lyiog iur
if in bed, but the other appeared to have been crushed
head downwards amongst the ruins, and both of them
were fearfully mangled and disfigured. The total noun-
her of dead Isodies Nand in the ruins is now 32, Includ-
ing the two persons (John Bruce and Mrs. lkveridge)
who died in the Royal infirmary. The Caledonian
Mercury of Wednesday states that the dreadful catm-
tenpin: in the nigh-street still continues to engross •
public atteution, gild the ut moat interest has been 'll'l4l-
- in the progress of the operations at the remains
of the ruined building. The work of excavation west
on in the eastern side of the building all night, but up
to an early morning on Wednesday morning, no further
relics of Mimeo life were discovered. The bodies got
out at four o'clock on Tuesday morning have since been
identified as those of Mr. lollauskie cud his wife, both
about forty-eight years of age, and of Robert Weir,
forty-fire years of age: A meeting, called by the Lord
Provost and magistrates, was held on Tuesday at noon
in the Couocil Chambers, for the purpose of considering
what steps should ho takeii for the relief of the survi•
'sing sufferers by the disaster in the Ifigh.street. The
chair was occupied by the Lord Provost. Bpi:eche&
were delivered by Mr. Duncan 31clatren, the Lord
Advocate, Professor Miller, and other gentlemen. A
committee was appointed, and a subscription list atarted
for the relief of tie sufferers, and the total amount of
the subscriptions yet announced is I:405 18s. The
So:dames narrates the following deeply interesting ioci-
dent r —The story of the escape made by the whole of
the numerous fauthy of the Beaters in the fourth that,.
one of the roost marvellous iecidents which have yet
come to light connected with this tragic occurrence.
Baxter himself reaeheil home from his work about mid-
night, when his wife and nine children were all in bud.
Ile took • small piece of bread and butter for supper.
and was in the act of undressrug himself to go to bed,
and had placed his trousers on the back of his chair when
he was startled by hearing • rattling like a rumbling of
gravel or " elluthientanes," as he termed it. His wife,
on hearing the noise, said to him, "There's a warning,"
referring to werniugs before death. And she had scarcely
uttered the words when his daughter Mary, • young
wino,,, aged about twenty, called out, in a tone of greet
alarm, from the ruolli in which alas was sleeping with
three of her nietes, ' Father, father !mother, mother !"
Banter rushed into the room, follueed by his wife, and
to hia horror found the boil in which his four daugh-
ters lay in two halves, lie was immediately seusible
of their great dangercalled up all his childreirsuil drove
Ilia wife and them almost completely naked before him
along the paasage and into the common stair behind his
house, which they reached not a moineut too soon,
for the litudiand, who came lard, had to leap for his life
over a chasm which alreadr yawned between his falling
house and the staircase. l'hey have, a course, with
many others. Imt everything they had, including even
their personal clothing, the whole family having escaped
in their night-dresses just as they came out of bed.
Mrs. Baxter wished to put on a part of her clothing,
but her husband would not perutit an instant's delay,
and by Lis tire:Less and energy saved the life of all his