Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-07-02
Appalling CaIamity---TcrribIe Dcstruc-
ton OF Life!
From the Quebec Mercury, June 10.

ton OF Life!
From the Quebec Mercury, June 10.
1t has again pleased the Almighty to uffict our al
ready chastened CITY,
Last night, at 10 o'clock, fire broke out in the
Theatre Royal ST. Lewis street, at the close of Mr.
Harrison's exhibition of his Chemical Dioramas.
From the information we have been able TO CLEAN, a
camphine lamp overset, from some cause or
other, and the stage at once became enveoPed In
flames.
The house lad been densely crowded, but some had
fortunately left before the accident
A rush was at once made to the staircase leading
from the boxes, by those who, IN the excitement of
the moment, forgot the other passages of egress.
In an incredibly short space of time the whole of the
interior Of the building enveloped in sheet of
fame-the newly erected platform covering the pit,
and communicating at each end with the stage and
boxes, favored the progress of the flames.
The writer Of this article of the earliest ON
the spot and present at the closing moments of the
hapess beings who persisted from their exertions
to escape. Tie staircase communicating with the
boxes, was a steep one, and we CT the opinion il
had fallen from the weight of those who crowded upon
il. At least. such was our opinion at the moment
One foot was interposed between the hapless crowd
and eternity and that space we, with five or six
others stood, the fierce flames playing around u.s. and
the dense smoke repeling all efforts to extrcate As
far back as we could there a of heads, of
writing bodies and outsreiched arms. Noise there
was none-Out lew means escaped Tie OuOmed. AT
the extreme end in view there were faces calm and
resigned persons who from the funeral veil of smoke
which gradually enshrouded them, appeared calmly to
drop into eternal Sleep
By our side was one brother trying to extricate an
other, but abandonment unavoidable One poor
creature at our feet offered his entire worldly wealth
for his rescue; the agonzng expression of the face
before us can never be effaced from our memory.
The flames at the time were above and around US,
but human aid of no avail in five minutes from
the time in which we make mention, the mass of hu.
man beings who had but short interval previous been
in the enjoyment of full and active life, expo
sed to our view a mass of calcined bones.
Up to this hour fortysix bodies have been recovered
from the ruins Most of them have been recognized;
greater loss of life than in the two dread cohfagra
tons of last Sad wailing pervades the city.
Scarcely street be traversed lii which the closed
shutter the hanging Grape not betoken sudden be-
reveament Fathers sisters, children of both sexes IN
dulge iii the deepest lamentation Wo has fallen
upon rpaar,fnr those who were thus suddenly and
awfuly summoned into the presence of their Creator
Annexed is list of the names of the unhappy suf-
erers whose bodies have been rescued from the ruins
Among them, il will be seen, there are many women
and children
Horatio Carwell, dry goods observation-disclosures aged
6, and Ann, aged 4, his children; Joseph Taref and
Olivia Fiset, his wife Sarah Darah wife of John
Calvin, carter James OLeary, aged %, apprentice
to his brother John, plasterer, ST. Roche-Alary o.
Leary, aged l6, his sister, ]. j. Sims, druggist, Re-
becca aged %, and Kenniah aged ID, his children ;
Mary O'Brien, aged 26, wife of John Lilly, tailor
Jean Bte Vezina, aged 80; Maria Louise Lavalee,
wife of Ronald Mcdonald, editor of the Canadian );
Eucenia M'Donald, wife of r. Anger; Edward K.
HoOgs, book-keeper Montreal Bank--John, aged 8,
and Edwatd, aged 6, his children; Thomas c. Harri-
son. aged 81, from Hamilton, C. W., brother to the
owner of the Diorama; Harriet Glackmeyer, wife Of
T. F. Molt, aged 45-Frederick, aged 10, and Adolf
plus, aged H. her children; Helen Murphy,
phan aged 90 Emeline Worth, aged 8, daughter of
Edward WORTH Montreal, sster-in-law of Mr.. A.
Lenfesty, grocer of this city Flavien Sauvagean,
aged IA, son of c. Sauvagean, musician Elizabeth
Lindsay, aged 50, wife of Mr.. T. Atkins, clerk of
Upper Town Market-Richard Atkins, aged q, his
son; Stewart Scott, Esq, Clerk of the Court of APP
peals, and Jane, his daughter; Thomas Hamilton,
Esq, lieutenant 18th regiment; Mrs. John Giob,
widow, and Jane, her daughter; Arthur Lane of
Mr.. Elisha Lane, Of the firm of Glib, Lane & Co. ;
Marianne Brown, aged 80, schoomistrcss, at Wood
g. Grays Cove; ]. Marcox, bailiff; Colin Ross, aged
% years paserer, native of Inverness, Scotland,
and Agnes Black, his wife, aged Is, daughter of
widow Black, of Montreal; Isaac Devlin, watchma-
ker, Lower Town; John Berry, from Aberdeen. late
in the employ of Messrs. w. Price & Co., arrived in
Chicoutimie, the Sth instant letter found
in his person. from his brother, James Berry, gardner
aud riddle-maker, North Bradford, Aberdeen; Anne
Taffe late servant with - Denholm, Esq, Cape
P. s. Four o'clock-46 bodies have been recover
ed. All but two have been recognized Mile Emil
lie Poncy, aunt of Miss Poncy, of the Lower Town,
is missing the remains Of body said to be fe-
male. are supposed to be hers.
The second is Mr. McKeogh, of Mabaie, school
MASTER who was in the theatre in company with Miss
Poncy.
The ruins are still smoking; and, in the time of
Londons great plague, the deadcart Plies to and fro
from the Of the calamity TO different parts Of the
city; conveying its ghastly load of charred remains
followed by weeping relatives and the gaping crowd
which ever attend such dread scenes.
There is always danger at places of public exhibit
ton when there only few doors for letting out the
visitors Many deplorable accidents have occurred
from this cause. The most remarkable in America
was at Richmond, Virginia, Dec. 26, 1911, when
600 persons present. of whom ~ persisted, among
them the Governor of the State and the Mayor of the
city.
PrRAcY.-A law introduced into the Senate by Mr..
Berrien, of Georgia, provides that the receiving of
anv latfcrs of rous from anv FOREIGN Prince or