The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-29
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We published Geographic dispatch some days
ago, abiding to a terrible accident in New York
city on the Doth. The following dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun gives full particulars
A terrible accident occurred this afternoon at
O'Clock, at the new Public School on Greenwich
avenue. An alarm of fire raised, and the chill.
dren becoming frightened, attempted to escape from
the building. A large number crowding
against the baustrades in the second and third sto-
ries when they gave way and precipiiated the chill.
dren to the first floor, distance of some forty feet
Already twenty dead bodies have been taken out
of the building and it is reported that at least forty
boys and girls are killed. The scene was most
heart. rending -mohers frantic were seeking their
Children and their cries, mingled with those OF the
dying victims, attracted thousands to the spot.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Ne,D York. NoU. 20-l0 p M,-Our city is in deep
gloom, in consequence Of the melancholy and heart
rending accident which occurred this afternoon.
MANY homes that but a few brief hours ago were
the scenes of happiness and joyous anticipations-
where danger was not dreamed Of and every coun-
tenance was bright with smiles-now present deep,
melancholy, and sad lamentations Eyes that were
bright are flooded with tears, and voices that were
| merry are turned TO walling. The details of this
sad calamity, as near as have been able TO gather
| them, as follows:
About two o'clock this afternoon, Miss Harrison,
| teacher in Primary School No. 26, was observed
probably from the closeness of the room, to faint.
On seeing this, number of children ran to her side
Others became alarmed, and in their fright, raised
the cry of fire. This caused the greatest alarm
and CONSERVATION among the little, unsuspecting
| innocents. Almost in moment they, as with one
impulse, made general rush for the doors and
windows, and the stairway, which, 1t seems wa.
of spiral form, and running from The first to the
| fourth story OF the building. Soon the press against
the balustrade became so great that 1T gave way
preciptating 10 the floor below, which was OF flag
stones used for playground, nearly or quite ont
hundred Of the little ones. The scene at this mo
ment was awful and heart rendng beyond descrip
ton. Child after child rushed down the horrible
| pit crushing beneath their eight those who hat
gone before, while others eaped voluntarily out o
the windows, and others threw themselves dowl
the chasm mingling their life blood with those al
ready dead and dying. More than seventy children
thus rushed into The jaws of death and, although
few escaped being seriously injured, some fifty wer
| Instantly killed:
The calamity would have been still greater, bl
for the presence of mind of Mr. McNully, the prin
, cipal, who was in the fourth story, and who, o.
hearing the cry of fire, Immediately placed hmse
against the door, declaring that none of the chill
5 dren should go out in this manner. His class, b
this means, escaped inevitable destruction.
The following is list Of the dead thus far ascef
tanned Emma Gdersleeve, Edwin Glenroy, Sa
rah Bogart, Anna Slate, Jacob Spinstead, Ma
o | thew Wood, John l.. and Anne Wooley, Catherin
: Doway Julia Delano, A. Won TasseI, Miss Brown
o Lucy Carlow, John Knapp, Anna M. HILL, job
McMann, Mary c. Baxter Sarah Bogardus, Cha
MOO1t ocofBc NINA Oil Duscuj oe
Walden, Jane M. De Voc, Jane Eursa, Della Al
n kerman Abby A. Jacobs, Amanda Hcf Ann
y Pike, George Quackenbuss, Margery Stephen
:. Harry Abbott Morris Waldron, Sarah Len
d Catherine Reynolds, Eliza o. Ne Mary Harpe
n Mary Teackard. Besides these, many others we
"a dreadfuy injured.
II A large number were Immediately carried
], iheis homes by their bewildered parents, tn
the full extent es .i calamity ust he f,,l
N ascertained
M The excitement at the school and at the Min
aI Ward Staton-h house, has been such as is seldor
or ever in our city.
The spectacle OF parents clasping their dead al
~ dying children, beggars all attempt at descrpto
a. The scene was most lamentable to behold.
ne The police and staff the Recorder and May'
N, and many medical gentlemen, were promptly
the spot rendering the sufferers all the aid in the
power.
on An inquest will be held at nine o'clock tome
row morning when the true cause of this dread
he calamity will be more fully known.
No p S.-10t p. M.-Since the above was sent
No. has been ascertained that besides those kilt
'u' some seventy or eighty mamed-some OF the
* for life Many OF the little so dreadful
IN manged as to be scarcely recognizable by tn
parents. A number of the wounded, it is 81
he posed, cannot survive.
nd No language can half depict the distress VIII
ans exists in consequence of this most melanch
md disaster.