The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-12
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
OVER TWO HUNDRED KILLED.
NUMBERS MORTALLY WOUNDED.

me R"fns on Fire, and many Of the pictims
beneath the blazing n,ass-R Horrible Details
. -Physicians and Firemen from all parte
a. Attendance The Fire supposed TO haze
Caught from q Camphene Lamp.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 1O.-Pember-
ton sMills, at this place, employing sew
eral hundred hands, fell in a mass of
ruins this afternoon, burying nearly every
person IN the premises. Mangled bodies
are now being brought .out by the cart
load 1t is supposed that over two hun
.dred have been!killed instantly.
The Mill fell suddenly about S O'Clock,
while six or seven hundred operatives
were at work. 1t is impossible at pre-
sent to give any thing like correct &C
count OF thes number of persons in the
Mill, or OF the actual loss of life. Eigh-
teen dead bodies have already been taken
out, and twenty-five MORALLY wounded.
Fifty others have also been taken out in
different stages of mutilation.
The agent of the mills and the treasurer
escaped by running from the falling build
ing. 1t is impossible yet to tell til e cause
OF the accident. The scene beggars descrip-
ton.
SECOND DISPATCH
LAWRENCE, January 10th; p. M.-The
Pemberton Mills fell fiat with a dreadful
crash.
Mr.. Palmer, one of the wounded, thinking
that there was no prospect of extrication,
cut his throat to sa We further suffering, but
he was extricated, and lived some time after.
One woman in part of the mill remain
ing standing, was so frightened that she
threw her bonnet and shawl out of the fifth
story window, and jumped herself, breaking
an arm and iniuring herself so that she can
not recover.
The laboring force at the mill is about $50
and about 260 were actually buried in the
ruins. A woman just rescued says there
were twenty-five more in the vi entity of the
place where she was taken out, yet alive.
About 9L o'clock fire was discovered to
be breaking out amid the ruins, adding addi-
tlonal horror to the scene. Although this
was somewhat apprehended, it struck terror
to the hearts of all present, who were before
hopeful of saving more lives. Still the work
OF removal went briskly on-,orce pumps
and ire engines kept steams of water pour.
ing into the ruins, but at ~ o'clock the
whole mass of ruins was sheet of flames.
The screams and means of the wounded
were painfully distinct, but no power on
earth could save them.
lie HdneS also threatened the destruction
of the Washington Mills and the bridge over
the river.
THIRD DISPATCH
LAWRENCE, Jan. IL, l. 80 A. M.--The Penn
berton Mills are now a smoking mass of
ruins. 1t is probably not less than two hun.
bred human beings have persisted in the
flames. The fire made quick work, burning
not only the main building, but the material
that had been in kindness rescued BY the
crowd.
The Washington Mills are now in great
jeopardy, the wind being towards them
The following Of the wounded are now at
the Hall:
The WOUNDED. Mary Ann Coleman, Ell
len Clary, Sarah Dole, Eliza Ward, Ellen
Mahony, Thomas Corner, Edward Hays
Courtney, Mary York, Margaret Hamilton,
Bridget Bradley, Kate Harrykee, Joanna
Connery, Morris Palmer, George Hodolpha,
Mrs. Fridler, Margaret Haunchwiekill, Ma
ry Kennedy Eliza Snow.
The K1LIEp.-There are also % corpsea,
the following of which are only recognized
Mary Mcdonald, Bridget Ryan, Mike O'Bri-
en-, John Dearborn, Margaret Sullivan, and
Mr.. Palmer.
Mr.. Palmer was deeplp burned, and think
ing there was no prospect of his extrication,
cut his throat, but he was extricated and
lived some time after his arrival at the Hall.