Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-12-04
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE.

u The papers contain heart-rendmg ae-
count OF catastrophe which occurred in New
York city on the Goth November, in the Ward
School No ID on CreeawiSh Avenue, There
were supposed 10 be eighteen hundred children in
the budding, Of whom Ave hundred in the seeoud
and thwd stories, heeom;as alavmed il eonse-
queaee OF a cry of tire, attempted TO rush down
stairs, aud the railing gIvlag way they were pre-,
eiptatea to the sround door dowa the Stair-way,
where from forty TO 6fty children, mostly g,rls,
los, their lives by solicitation,
The following aeeoUnt is frem tie Journal ef
CaMmelee OF the slSt;
The hWtl(ng . foarS>oeies in height, TAe erSt
sSoand nAor Is used as play-,paaaa; the Seeeaa
hy tAe pTuaarN hrpaCtMent, the thSra, hv the
Female, ard tAe taarth by Ihe Male neptyttasa,s,
each cea,a}aS AOo OF ol0 pap>ls,
Tae MstNle,reSs IN the Department fest men,
NoueA> Is Miss Abby HaErisen We learn from
pr Wlscy, Wac attended, her last eveasus, that
The aeSa0Nts Tor the origin OF the eataStr,Nae IN
this N.,N&er> m
fer sesae days pas, sac has been SNtE,riny more
~ less trom fatigue and exhaustion, re>ulaNg
nam aver~eNe,bna for the taSth~eaM>Ns exam$~
natSoa Ut her scholars, aNa had eempl.tNcA NJ
naNSNlal %eaSat{aaS IN NArioas parts II her hety,
teuaMSto paralysis, Whle eNgasea mheE usual
Aar ta2SNc, AMI the Eaea Aceame distorted o some
eNteaI which, Heightened me eh&ttraM rNelauer
sHFeANe>l, aNa tao boys overhead haaulNg the
nA($e, nel down Sta(rS IN coNtNS,aa> "ttreM
TAe Nma>eS otthe whole SNA,lA,% appear to have
been SetEea VITA eeA>tHEs,attoN, and ra~hng over
heneAeS, prcSsyl through the aaerwavS to the
$ta{reA>> bursting the ha(uSterS teoa he{f H,~tsN.
ntSS> when solid mAS>ss Ut terrified ehiElrea were
plunged heaataaS through perpendicular aiS>
lance of thirty feet 10 y stone h.sginx a, TIE
AoltNN> simultaneously bell " the StatNuAeaSe
adjacent began 10 SoNIl an alarm ot ttre, The
SeeNe wNAiN the building aeiies description The
doors cE the male eNtraNee ot The h0{tlng, d.
reetly al the hotte@ OF The stairway, epeoal IN
| warts, AMI The pressure o. the aeeaNthlt(R& Yle
OF heGeS in the "we,N falmea by The Whaling
stairs, prevented thaSS without fron atlHr,imx i'm.
mediate relief, Three OF foar individuals, among
whom was Capt. Seaharv, of the police corps,
speedily burst in the doors, and slade every exA
eEtioa 10 rS,nose the little sufferers, who held ont
! their arms, ami with servants and tmporing locks
hcso0ght the officers to save them, Their efforts
were continually frustrated BY Tie conStaa; failing
OF children from, above, who, as they reached the
doors, pressed those already before thea over the
brink and Ia many Instances, when the officers
were about to extricate an unfortunate little oae
failing body would knock away their arms, and
bury the one they would save from their sight.--
| Meanwhile, the work OF death was going on
among those beneath. Capt Saabury thinks he
| pile, al one time, was considerably, above his
| head, say six or seven feet in height. Those who
fell on top escaped generally, hu, triius injuries
/ those on the second i,oor comprising n,cnhers
Of the pslmary Department (Sirls) who Formed
/ the bottom Of the heap, persisted in large nnm-
hers, 1t is iudgca that nearly thirty dead bodies
| were crowded together in one compact mass,
| oe those who We're beneath Capt. S,abary,
with all the anxiety that the desperate nature Of
| the case was calculated to awaken. was So rortu-
nate IA 10 recognise and rescue his little daughter
/ from impending death, arter removing two or
| three hundred who preceded her in the fearful
| fall. A considerable number leapcl from the
windows or the second story, and gentleman
| who was early on the spot aud scaled the fence
| enclosing the yard, says he thinks there were
| twenty bodies lying on the ground, apparently
| recovered from the stunning effects OF the fall.
The dead and wounded were at once taken TO
the 9th ward police station house, and as they
We're recognized by parents. Were removed in car
riayes. The scene that presented itself as pareass
detected in the hlackened and distorted features Of
| those before them, their offspring, was almost
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS emotions too deep to seek
expression IN tears, some tore their hair aud gave
utterance to the most haart-renlin- walls Of dis
tres. Bat with the larger number, the qnivering
lip the silent tear, or half suppressed groaa, bore
| witness of the inwart strife.