The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-22
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Terrible accident Forty eight Children Killed and
Eighty Wounded

Eighty Wounded.
New YoRR, November 900 D, m.-One of the
most frightfu catastrophes it has been our lot to
record occurred in this city this afternoon, result
ing in the sudden and awful death and manning
of q large number of children, principally girls
The following are the particulars, as a
be ascertained amid the general confusion and ex-
citcmcnt that exists in relation to the matter:
About four o'clock, just before the pupils of the
Ward Public School No. 26, occupying the new
building on Greenwich avenue, near Sixth ave-
nue. were about to leave the school, the principal
of the department on the third story of the build
ing, Miss Harrison, was seized with a sudden i'll
ness OF a paralytic nature, which had such an APP
palng effect her features that it caused the
greatest alarm among the children, the majority
of whom were girls, ranging from six to eight
years of age.
The CONSERVATION among them gradually in
creased, and in the midst of the excitement an
alarm of fire raised, when the children at once
made rush for the stairs which, in their eager
ness, they completely blocked up, and became
wedged between the bannisters and the wall. The
bannsters suddenly gave way, and, amid the most
awful screams, scores of children were precipitated
distance of thirty feet to the ground, and, falling
on top of each other, killing all that not
killed by the fall, presented scene of the rnost APP
palling character that battles all description.
The parents of the children were quickly assem-
blcd and, as body after body was taken out dead
or injured, and quickly recognised, the screams OF
mothers and relatives most heart-rendipg
AS far as we have been able TO ascertain, the fol
lowing is correct list of the dead, forty eight i'll
number, whilst there are probably double as many
more or less injured Some cannot possibly re-
cover and doubtless before morning the list of
dead will be considerably augmented:
Anne E. Thorp, Henry Abbott, Morris Walden,
Margaret Harper, Mary Penchard, Harriet Stow,
Julia Delano, Archer Van Tassel, Miss Brown,
Anna Van Dusen, John Walsen, Jane M. Devoe,
Phoebe Ann Brownell, Anna Mary Hill, A. Hoh,
Alfred Pike, Benjamin Jacacks, Abby w. Jacobs,
Augustus Miller, Miss Alderman, Jane A. Enrea,
George Mills, Charles E. Morse, Sarah Bogardus,
Mary C. Baxter, John Nj Mann, John S. Knapp,
Lucy Clover, Cornelia Cadmus, Jacob Sprinsteed,
Anna Sute, Emma GildersIeve Mathew Wood,
Edward Glenny, Sarah Bogust, John l.. Worley,
John ID. Worley, Della Ann Worey, Catharinc
Downey, Harriet Howell.
There are also three others whose names could
not be ascertained.
The school is of the largest in the city, mum
bering 1873 scholars.
The excitement TO night, in the vicinity Of the
school house, exceeds any thing before witnessed
in this city.
SECOND DESPATCH
New YoRK, November 2l.-The report of the
accident at the public school on Greenwich avenue,
which was sent you last night, embraced all the
principal facts of the
The result of the coroner's investigation has not
yet transpired. Many of those wounded lie in a
very critical situation, and it is feared number of
them cannot survive. The deepest sympathy is
felt for the bcreavcd parents, who have been de-
prived of their offspring by this sad calamity.
Steamer Baltic.
New YoRK, November 2l-2 p. m.-Ihe steamer
Baltic which sails to morrow, will take out
| 81 ,000,0 900 in specie.
| Stocks are active and advancing. Flour steady.
Bloody Tragedy.
ALRANY, November 20.-Ihis morning, man
named Moore, and his wife, residing about five
miles from this city, on the Delaware township
road, were found dead, both having been shot.
| From Demar0rd- C5lored Emigration.
BosToN, November 20.-Advices from Denarara
term OF service had expired, had left for the East
Indies. An envoy had been cent to the United
States TO induce free negroes to cmigrate thither.
The salt season at Magua had been prosperous.
| The stock on hand was 900 bushels
| Ererrf,oo of (o,LI.,,