Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-14
THE LAWRENCE DISASTER.
Continuation OF the Inquost-Further
Particulars.
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/ CiGlly at the South end, where Ine gTouuu
! is quicksand and springy soil; he also
| thought the walls too thin for 50 lnrGe n
| building.
VIM. Sullivan testified that he did the
| excavation for the foundation. and consid-
cred it deep enough and more solid than
i others.
John Tattle testified that he was one of
| the firm that put up the brick work: said
| the walls were too weak and the quality OF
the brick poor; water had been running in
| the foundation of the walls for two
months; such things he considered danger
/ Gus, and might undermine the-walls; the
WITNESS explained that where the upper
! floor timbers were put in, projections
were thrown out of the inner wall; the
whole wall was solid l8 inches; the tim
bcrs were so short that they entered but
little distance into the wall, and rested
mainly on the brick projection,
The inquest then adjourned till to-mor-
row.
| The Boston HeralFs correspondent to-
night from Lawrence, says that hut one
dead body has as yet been taken from the
ruins. 1t is apparently about % years
years old, but so shockingly mutilated that
even the nearest relative could not posi-
hlv recognise any familiar lineaments; her
face was charred and burned to the depth
of about half IN inch and the back part OF
her head and all the way behind her ears
were burned TO the bone; otherwise, the
flames did not appear to reach her. Her
bosom and lower part of her body is UNI
injured She had probably lain in place
where her head alone was exposed to the
flames and had burned her hands in stri-
wing to protect it.
Nothing remains standing at the scene
of disaster except two immense chimneys,
through which ran the shaftirS which
carried on the works in the various rooms.
The wood work has pretty much all been
rem owed from the spot and nothing now
remains but crushed and mingled mass
of bricks, mortar and broken machinery.
The Pembcrton corporation has the rn-
ms in charge and employed about so per-
sons in clearing away the rubbish. Their
progress, however, owing to the storm and
difficulties of the job, was but slight
The volunteers who had worked there
with almost superhuman efforts, for "a
hours, were worn out with fatigue, and it
WAS impossible, this afternoon. TO hire la
bOrers to prosecute the task of eXhuming
those who yet lie buried in the rubbish.
The smoke is still ascending from the
black heaps, and streams of water from
the fire engines from Manchester was kept
on the heated mass.
Besides the sums of money already men
toned as having been forwarded, the May
or of Lawrence has received number OF
donations from various parties, many of
whom did not send their names. Among
| the presents was box containing 20 linen
sheets, the gift of the owners of the stea-
mcr Mcmcnion Sanford. A kind lady from
Charleston, also forwarded large lot of
carefully prepared bandages.
INDIANA CONVENTION.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 13.-Sam'l L. Rugg,
of Adams, for Superintendent Of Public
| Instruction; Cornelius O'Brien, of Dear
born, for Clerk OF the Supreme Court, and
/ Michael C. Kerr, of Floyd, for Reporter OF
| the Supreme Court, were all nominated.
A majority of the candidates on the State
ticket are Administration men. The rcso-
| lutions adopted are very long. The LIST
| favors the strict construction of the Con-
stituticn, and says that it is incypcdient
and dangerous to exercise doubtful consti-
| tutional powers; I'd, rcpudiates all section
! al parties and platforms concerning do
nestle slavery; Sd, endorses the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska;
4th, says that it has been fully demOnstra-
ted that by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization
/
States, with or without domestic slavery
as they may elect, the equal rights of all
the States may be preserved intact ;
| 9Th, refers to the contest now going on
for the Speakership at Washington,
and calls on the Democrats from In
diana, to stand firmly by the rcgu-
lar nominee of the Democratic party;
9th, discountcnnnces the political agitation
of the slavery question; 9Th, favors the
honorable and peaceful acquisition oil
Cuba; 9Th, denounces the laws recently
enacted in Massachusetts, ill regard TO for
eign born citizens; 9th, opposes the efforts
of the so-called Republican party, to kin
| die anew, the fires of tnnaticism and the
establishment of laws calculated to in
fringe on the people; 10th, wishes success
to the administration of James Buchanan
end on all proper occasions, will defend his
actions, when carrying out the principles
of the Democratic party against unjust at
tacks by the Republican party, 18th, en-
dorscs the administration of Gov. Will
| lard: 18th, instructs the delegates to the
Charleston Convention to vote rs II unit
for Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Gs
their candidate for President; 18th, pro-
tests agninst all inhumatory appeals
which tend to make the Union less perfect,
or to jeopardizc or disturb domestic tran
! guilty or mar the spirit of harmony, COM
promise and concession upon which the
Union was formed by our fathers; l4th.
denounces the H0rper's Ferry raid; 18th,
| fnvors homestead to actual settlers on
public lands; 10th, accepts the decisions OF
the Supreme Court as an evidence of the
true meaning of the Constitution; 18th, re-
atfirms the principles contained in the
Cincinnati platform, as Gxpoundcd by Blu
chanan's letter of acceptance: 18th, oppo-
SEES the re-opening of the African slave
trade; 10th, that naturalized citizens, after
declaring their intentions to become citi-
liens of our government, are entitled TO
its protection in foreign lands the same as
native born citizens.
The Convention adjourned sine die, at