Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-20

when she rCccSs w iTotn tho suoVN' s",
was standing upoiiN the floor Of the spool
room, her body half concealed amid the ru-
ms. She escaped unhur, and returned to
her home.
Many Of the persons who were rescued
from the ruins alive, owe their escape from
instant death to the arches of the looms,
which resisted the immense weight OF tim
bers and machinery, and left space be-
tween The floors in which the sufferers
could move about.
A marvellous escape from death is relat-
ed of little girl about ten or twelve years
old. She was found with her feet spread
wide apart by a huge mass of iron that
would probably weigh n thousand pounds.
Close on either side were heavy pieces Of
machinery; and over her back large Tim.
Der, while one of her arms was thrust
through an iron ring. All these heavy ar
tcles were in close contac, with her body,
so that she could not move, and yet, strange
to say, she was rescued with only slight in
juries How she could have got in such
position is marvel.
Another young girl was buried ten feet
heard, parties set to work to extricaie her.
After telling long and hard, they succeeded
in removing the superintendent mass,
when, to their establishment, the girl jumped
nimbly up, and ran skipping away, greatly
pleased at her liberation, and not in the
least hurt
Among the companions OF Miss Weeks,
who shared similar experience and were
saved, were Sarah Forbnsh, Lucy Camp
bell, Jenny Blanchard, Anna Goodwin, and
Mary York. AT the depot, hast evening,
our reporter met three young women, mem
beers of a family of seven, named Luck,
who were all in the mill at the time of the
fall, all of whom escaped without serious
injury. One of them, Jane Luck, after
being buried FIVE hours beneath the ruins,
was rescued without receiving so much as a
scratch. Anna Luck, one of the oldest
sisters, was standing near her loom when
the crash came. She instantly threw her.
self under the loom, and called to Eliza
beth Fish and Phelia Barnes TO follow her
example. They did so, and were all three
saved.
An affecting scene occurred during the
early part of the evening, which melted the
hearts of all who witnessed it. A little
boy, whose only friend was his mother, and
that mother employed in the mill, wandered
about among the crowd. sobbing as if his
little heart would break, and begging the
bystanders to save his mother. The
prayers of the little fellow were answered /;
his mother was saved, and clasping her son
in her arms, his JOY knew no bounds-one
extreme succeeding another.
A boy at work in one of the upper rooms,
hearing the crash, had the presence Of mind
to jump into waste box, which with its
occupant, was buried several feet beneath
the ruins. When the rescuers raised the
pile of rubbish from the box, the young
hero sprang from his narrow prison, and
walked away as coolly as if nothing had
happened.
Another boy who had acquired the use
of the "dudeen," on being extrieated from
beneath mass fmachinery, walked away,
took pipe from his pocket and went to
smoking.
The Luck sisters had one uncle killed and
another fatally injured. All these girls
were near the windows.
Mr.. Looney, third hand in one of the
rooms, had both of his legs broken. and
died in half an hour after being taken out.
A mother sat by the bedside of her Ia
jured daughter at the City Hall, when the
latter closed her eyes, as If falling into a
quiet sleep, but which was, in realty, the
sleep of death.
Mr.. Jason ii. Dana, assisted by Messrs
Leonard Stoddard and Augustus Wilder,
succeeded in rescuing about twenty persons
NJ. Dana was on the ground in about
three minutes after the accident, at which
time the heads and hands of the victims
were 10 be seen protruding, in every con-
ceivable posture Of distress, from between
the different layers of the ruin, from top 10
bottom. The first persons extricated were
taken from the top Of the rubbish. Twelve
persons were recovered from one spot on
the west side of the mill, near the machine
shop. Three of these were dead, and sew
era others terribly manned
The fire had made considerable progress
and was approaching the spot where man
was surrounded with limbers, yet had room
~ HlONc dDOuts ~ Stftull Ot wafer was
directed upon him, and every exertion made
to save him, but in vain. He and three
others, in nearly the same position, were
left to perish.
DR.. S. A. Lord of South Danvers, was
called to attend two young women, who
were in the third story of the mill In
falling one of them, Mary Welch, had two
fingers caught in the machinery. In an
agony Of despair she literally tore them off,
and crawled out through an opening in the
ruins, tearing her clothes completely from
her body. Her hip was badly injured.
Her companion, who escaped through the
same opening, was dreadfully bruised and
scratched.
A man named Dahom Wyhom, an over
seer in charge Of the looms in the basement
and first story, was buried beneath twelve
feet of ruin. By almost superhuman exer-
ton, and after repeatedly sinking back in
despair, he succeeded in clearing a passage
to wherehe could be reached by those out
side, and was thereby saved,
HEROINE.
AT one point, when rope had been fix
ed to projecting timber, a call was made
so The crowd to take hold and pull with a
will, bun for few minutes, such was the
danger of the attempt-for the beam in