Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-01-18

sofs 70 the same means to escape the tor
lures of the fire. He was pursued to desist
and was fortunately rescued.
The awful death that some died of by
the fire was fearfully attested by their bak-
ed or blackened forms when taken out, not
in anything like forms of human beings.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. -.
At the inquest to-day. Joseph Glover,
overseer the Repair Shop Of the Pember.
ton Manufacturing Corporation. testified
that he had at times seen cracks in the
walls, but nothing that he cons sidered seri.
sus- He had never strengthened the walls
with iron work, but had heard 1t was
strengthened. He thought the building
was weak, but apprehended no trouble !;
did not think it as strong as such build
ings usually are; had heard that the tim
bers were not bolted to the walls iron
trusses had been put into the building be.
fore he went to work there. The boiler ap-
peared perfectly sound; il was in a sepa
rate building. he examined the building
since the accident.
Mr.. Chase, agent Of the mill, testified
as to his escape. he said there was less
weight at the end which TELL than at the
other; four fly frames in the fourth story
were removed that day from the part hich
fell to another place; they weighed a ton
and half. There were probably 500 per-
sons in the building. He did not know
how the fire caught. The Essex Company
built the mill; he did not know how it
commenced. There were cracks each side
of the chimney in the building, caused by
the swaying of the chimney; chimney had
broken away from the building, and iron
had been placed around to strengthen it.
but not from any fear of the building itself;
there have been no new cracks near the
chimney for two ears; know of no other
cracks in the building; was less motion in
the building than in others. He consider
ed it safe. as it had stood six years.
John Patterson, overseer iD weaving
room in the basement, testified as to his
escape. Had heard statements that the
building was unsafe, but never noticed
anything about the building to make him
think it so.
Mr.. Ceorless, who put in the shafting,
had told Winn, an overseer, he did not
consider the building safe; also understood
he had said two upright shafts would, in
time, shake the end of the building out !;
don't think over 80 persons employed in
my room were killed-there were 304 en-
ployed there last Monday.
John Pinder Wolf, manufacturer in the
Washington Mill, testified; He with 9th.
ers helped what they could we got the
roof off, and took out machinery, wood and
bodies; some men were near with lanterns,
and as they were not doing any good, l
said "for Gods sake take care of those Ian
torns-there is cotton all around here"
saw four men going TO a hole with two
lanterns, and shortly return with only one
lantern: in a moment after he saw flames;
the men ran into the crowd and he after
them, but could not catch them the Lam
terms were guarded ones, and think they
were filed with oil. The fire took from
loose cotton hanging about the carding
machine.
Richard II. Plummer testified that yari-
Gus men went to work to clear away, with
axes and bars, and two men had lanterns
to see to work by by some accident one
lantern broke or fell, and when the Rames
struck the cotton the fire at once sprung
up.
Mr.. Barber testified that the foundation
was insufficient stone good but shallow
especially at the south end. where the
ground is quicksand said also that the
walls were too thin for so large building
Mr.. Sullivan testified that he did the ex
cavation for foundation, and considered
it deep enough and more solid than others
| John Tuttle testified that he was one o
the firm that put up the brick work sale
the walls were too weak and quality o
brick poor; water was running in founda
tion of walls for lwo months; such thing
he considered dangerous, and might un
dermine the walls.
BosToS, Jan. 10.
The Boston Herald's correspondent to
night from Lawrence, says that but on
dead body was taken from the ruins, ap
pareL,ly about 25 years old, but SO shock
ingly mutilated that even the eyes of tn
nearest relative could not possibly recoe
nize any familiar lineaments. She wa
charred and burned to the depth of abor
half an inch, and the back part of ht
head was also burned to the bone; othe
wise the flames did not appear to reac
her. Her bosom aud the lower part of b,
body is uninjured. She had probably Isl
in place where her head alone was e,
posed to the flames, and had burned b.
hands in striving to protect it.
Nothing remains standing at the seer
| VI uledssciy cACcPs b"o iiuhcuec ShituuS.
through which ran the shafting which ca
c ried on the works in the various rooms.
}. The wood and timber work has pref
much all been removed from the spot, al
nothing now remains but a crushed al
$ mingled mass of brick, mortar and brok
machinery.
u The Pemberton Corporation has {
ruins in charge, and have employed abo
so men in clearing away the rubbish; th,
progress however, owing to the storm al
y difficulties of the job, was but slight. T
e volunteers who had worked there with
most superhuman efforts for % hours, we
worn out with fatigue, and it was impos
BILE this forenoon to hire laborers to pro-
cute the work of exhuming those who ,
y lie buried in the rubbish.
10 The smoke is still ascending from {
y black heaps, aud stream from the I
- engine from Manchester was kept on [
heated mass.
is The Mayor Of Lawrence has received
'e number of donations; among them b
Of containing l25 linen shirts. Ayoung la
IL of Charleston forwarded large lot OF ca
70 f,,llv oroparad handaoes