Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-01
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whelmed, and before the laps of an hour
several persons were taken out alive, and
the bodies of several others in whom life
was extinct. The work oil -excayaling
was prosecuted without iniermission FOR
several hours. and the following dead bod
les taken out, according to list prepared
by order OF the Common Council:
Mrs. Matthew Grennin and child.
Mrs. William Brazell and tSo children.
Michael Dunn.
Thomas Keely and wife.
Edward Dumbleton--a lad
A child of James Caldwell
Two children of Daniel E. Day.
Miss Ann WILDER.
A child of Mrs. Gardner.
Miss Jane Sanford-in all fifteen.
The following persons were taken out
alive:
Mrs. Kllfoile-one arm broken.
A child Of z. P. Birdsal. @
Jane McCollom. ~. II" -.
Mrs. Gardner.
Two children-namesnot ascertained.
2 James Barnett and wife.
Mrs. Dunn is missing-supposed to be
buried In the ruins.
The scenes which occurred during the
exhumation of the living and dead DEFY all
description. Mr.. BirdsaIl ard his wife,
who occupied one Of the houses destroyed,
were both aosent from home at the time
of the disaster, having left their, children
in the charge of a sister of Mrs. B. They
returned while the workmen were enoag-
ed in excavating the earth above their
dwelling, and. were rendered almost fran
tic by the sight Of the terrible Calamity
which had overwhelmed them. One Of
their children with the sister of Mrs. B.
were finally rescued alive. Other scenes,
highly Distressing in their character. also
occurred but of which il is impossible to
give detailed description.
Mr.. kllfoile. an aged lady, who was
rescued about 8 o'clock, was enabled TO
hold communication tor some time pre-.
vlous TO her extraction, with those who
were engaged ia the attempt 10 save her,
and was so exhausted that she coald only
articuate water" which was handed to
her by those without. ....-.. .....:.".
THREE CHILDREN BuRNT.-On the
night Of the 18th ult. the house of Mr..
Post in Nunda, Alegany county, N. Y.
was burnt to the ground, and three chill
dren persisted in the flames. The fourth
was so dreadfulIy burned about the neck
and head, that it is feared he Will not sur
vive.-Vermoat Patriot
! TRIAL BY JURy.-A bill to repeal the
act, which allows the right of trial by Ju-
ry 10 colored persons claimed as fugitive
slaves, is now before the legislature ofthis
State. We shall soon see whether the
present dominant party in this State. who
pirate so loudly about liberty and equality,
and that justice, like the dew of heaven,
should descend alike upon the rich and
the poor, will pass bill denying the rig h.
of trial by jury, to hose whose crime con-
sists in not having skin coIored like their
own. The southern people are in costa
( cies, to think that Governor Bouck. the
plain, republican farmer, so much favors
"lhe peculiar institutions of The South"
that he is DESTROYS of aiding the southern
task-master, in obtaining bis human
cattle" for the southern market, without
the Formally Of law. Stealing men from
the free State of New-York is attended
with some trouble, when a jury oftweIve
men are required to sanction it, We'll do
northern people deserve the name OF
"dough faces" as applied to them by
southern shareholders, when they s,oop to
such base acts to please the traffickers in
human fesh.-Long Island Farmer.
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