The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-06
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Terribie Calamity fn Newbern
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We barely had time to aiiuda In a nort,or =, -,
sss issue, to the disastrous fre which occurre a.
snis town on the morning Of the I'D mir and -
'"e pa'hiai and distressing fact that two ebIdr.a
per'shed in the flames
IL "s n.s originated In tho dwelling house occu.
pieo oy mr. Ihos }. Marshall in the upner Mari ae
the Town IL was discovered batvee ,ha h 49, VI "
twelve aud one O'Clock. The fnn,ity -. " o'
stairs, with the exception of the servant rir wsa
was on the lower floor. The irst intimas;a,, ~
VI. had of his house being on ire was SO ha..;.. .
his name called by the GIRL who had soma dif;cmi'
ty In awakening him, when he aroused and fanna
himself almost sufeeated with smoke. lie aweke
his wife and then Immediately sprHug far tba
stairs, but found them aud the whole OF the lover
portion of the back part of the building enveloped
In fames. With no other means OF egress their
only alternative was to jump from the upper stair
window into the street. This Mr.. NJ instaptiv
DONE the idea occurring to him at the time that
he would procure ladder from some OF the neigh.
bors and thus be enabled TO gave his wife and
children: but. upon searching the neighborhood
he could not find sufficiently small for him to
be able to carry It himself could he arouse the
neighbors in time for them to be of any assistance
| TO him.
Despairing of saving them in this way, and being
almost frantic he returned to his house which was
| then almost in flames and shouted to his wife To
| throw the children TO him from the window and
then Jump out herself; but as the words wera ut
| tered he heard her screams below stairs. Rush
ing In through the fire and smoke he found her ly-
|
fright and suffocation. and totally unable to ac-
| count for the manner in which she had descended
the stairs, they we're nearly complete sheet OF
| fame. On reaching the street Mrs NJ. stated that
one of her children ian infant about month5 old
! was on the floor whore she was found. when some
| one rushed in and rescued it not, however, with
out its having sustained very serious, and we fear
fatal injury. Another effort was now made TO save
the other children, but, alas too late, The lad,
der was quickly sscended by the frantic father,
| who attempted 10 effect an entrance, but, when
| the windows were opened, nothing but q complete
mass of FIRE and smoke met his agonzing gaze,
entirely precluding the possibility of his entering
the room or of his children being alive. 1t was
then that hope forsook the bosOms Of the unfortu,
nate parents, and they realized tho terrible and
heartrendering fact that their children had Pc
rished. Terrible thought. Who can imagine their
feelings at this awful moments
| 1t is always considered heart trendng dispense.
tion when children are taken from their parents
by causes common 10 humanity; when they can
III by their bed side, soothe their sufferings, and
smooth their passage to the grave; but, oh, how
horrbc how doubly horrible, TO suffer as they
suffered aud TO die as they died. II should be
consolation, however, to the sorrow-strickeB cou
pie, that though the sufferings of their children
tCsJe great, they nolc at rest.
The children were both boys, the eldest John
Davis, being years months old, and the ether
William Edward, was years and months.
There five buildings, destroyed, two o
which belonged to the estate of the late Capt. N
| A. 0utteu.
Taking everything into consideration, this wa
one of the most distressing cslamities that ha
: ever happeued in our town, and we hope neye
to have TO record a similar one
j. ). Stree writing the above, Mr.. MARSHALL
only remaining child. Abram Outten, has die
from the effects Of the fire. 1t fingered until Sun
day evening last when death terminated its suffer
ings.-NeWbeJn ftiu7,, 2d inst.