The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-04-06
Another Tenement House Tragedy.

The telegraph reports the loss Of ten more
lives. sacrificed in a New York tenement
house, the victims Of INSCRIPTIONS avarice.
The following additional particulars in regard
10 this holocaust are taken from the New
York Post. The fire occurred at four o'clock
in the morning:
The building is four stories high AMI is d.
yided into four parts. Every thiug was of
wood and highly combustible. The hall ways
were only five feet six inches wide, including
stair ways which we're only about two feet
wide. Into this wretched structure so COM
bus,ible that fire must of necessity spread to
every part simultaneously, we're crowded
from twenty to thirty families, men, women
and children, without sufficient means Of e.
gre-s. When the fire broke out this morn
.,.s The flames spread with great rapidly
through the entire structure. The lower
par, VI the house was one mass of flame be-
tore the wretched inmates Of the upper part
were aroused, and when they awoke to a con-
sciousness OF their situation, scene Of hor-
:or ensued which beggars descripti The
cries for assistance, which could not be rem
dered, and the frantic efforts of those who
had escaped to save their friends or children,
made up scene which can only be imagined
by those who have witnessed one equally ter
1ible.
Andrew Whalan, with his wife and four
children, who occupied the third floor Of No..
30. in the rear. Jane Mentally, a sister-in-
aw of Thomas Bennett, another occu pant,
was sleeping on the fourth floor of No. 90
When aroused BY the tumut below, she at
tempted to escape by the stairs but was met
by q solid mass of fame. Finding every
other means of escape impossible, she Jump
I'd from the window Of the fourth floor TO the
ground. breaking her thigh in the descent
In addition to the injuries sustained in fall
ing, she was badly burned. She was convey
ed to the hospital and the physician who
dressed her wounds is Of opinion that recov-
cry is impossible.
Mrs. Whalan and her four children were
burned to death. Mr.. Whalan is a night la
borer in the stables of the Sixth Avenue
Railroad, and was not at home at the time
OF the fire. Another entire family, with the
exception Of the father was burned to death,
namely Mrs. Bennett, wife of Thomas Ben
nett, and three children. MIR. Bennett is al
so night laborer on the Sixth Avenue Rail-
road stables and was absent. After the
flames were subdued the search for the re-
mains commenced. Nine bodies, horribly
red 10 the Twenty-second ward station house
The bodies were so burned that it is difficult
10 recognize them. Mr.. Bennett recognized
the remains Of his wife by ring on the I'm
ger, and his infant child t.y its size, no other
chld so Young having been buried in the ru-
ms
The scene, when the friends and relatives
gathered about the bodies to discover if pos
sble some traces by which they might be
identified, was deeply affecting and tragic
The sObs of the women and the more silent
grief of husbands and fathers, was enough to
move the hardest
One, approaching the remains of his wife,
raised the cloth with his left hand, and gaz-
ing SILENT! for moment, pointed with the
other to the almost shapeless mass, and said
TO the spectators, There is my wife-there is
my infant-there is my boy,I believe, though
am not sure-it is all that is left Of my FAM
lly,' and walked away with tears falling fast
and silently.
1t has leaked out that there was quite
row at the last Democratic Senatorial eau
Gus to consider the slavery resolutions
DousIas was pointedly snubhed, and it is
sad Fitch of Indiana gave CInoman of y
c. black eye.
q \ lady crossing the railroad track a,
Rochester, few days since, was taken up by
the Snow pillow of locomotive and carried a
considerable distance. When taken off it
was found she was not much Injured and
She would not own that she was frightened.
c. The lives lost on the steamer Hunga-
ran have been Overstated. The official list
OF passengers and crew foots up 5u, l5O-
cabin passengers -, officers and crew lO4.-
Eight bodies have been recovered, but only
one of them is identified
AN "OHY CANNON. An exchange paper
states that fellow in Venango county, pro-
h;ed III the following manner by the "ol ex-
element now prevailing so extensively in
The western and northwestern part of Penn
sy.vanla. He bored hole in his land, pour
cd a barrel of oil i'll it, and then called his
Htlghbors to see the large yield. The result
was that he sold his land for $1,000 in cash,
p'cAe,ed the money, oiled his boots anu
sid