New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-13

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| floor and falling IRON had come upon her.
Dining IA, ssme evening, "A husband was seen anxi-
ousy searching the promlsouons wreck Tor bis VIE.
/ Tie seareh Was long aud unhring. Every little nook
Was carefully Examined, and fully the lost was
| found In turning some of the roofing in pile
| of rubbish, she was discovered el,-ely imbrdfrd
among bricks, iroD spniersof wood, etc. It required
| some considerable tine ~ clenr H. away, and when
oIce the BODY Nas found the husband took the sup
pos,d iclets body away IL is only necessary 10 add
that ere lie reached home, the lacy recovered con-
scioueness, and ith the exception Of few rlght In
uIss, il probably az well as ever. Numerous xcng
sc.Ies w.re constantly iransping during Tuesday
evening and yestel day. Many Of the wounded were
horribly INITIATED about the head aud body, present.
| ing, u, several instances, connenances hardly TO be
| recognized by friends.
OF the fveoverse ers of the different depart ments of
| n mill but one AIR. Branch, WAS killed. Tue other
four Messrs. Tat.Ison, Neyins, Glover, and Shove,
were fortunate in escaping uninJured Bot few mo-
meIs before tie falling VI the building, Mr. Chase,
The Agent oil the Company, Mr. CLARK, the Clerk, aud
several If tie OveTseeIs together in the weave
RON. MIR. Clare all at once noticed something unn-
tua and heard cracking round, when almost Instinct
iyey he started for the door, the only available mode
OF egrese This door, which il had been the pr'scsce
Of keeping fastened opened by boy just az Dir.
Glare ana bis companions reached 1t, and the party
had just time TO get half dozen feet from the wall
when Il fell.
Shortly after this little girl appeared in the win
dow OF the northwest corner OF the building, winch
war standing, and jumped out. She was caught by
| some gentlemen, and sust tlned no injury.
broth,r and sister, Robert and Mary Moore en-
ploye IN tIe room, ~ere buried IN The falling
msss They ray the whole affair passed Oh 30 quickly
that they hardly knew what had happened The frst
animation thai they had of il Vas crash over head,
and then "a trembling Of the building. inriinclivsy
lhey both LAID fiat upon the floor, aud both came ou of
| the ruins safe and sound
One person ia the fifth story came out safe. He
Was however, obliged " perform sundry eVoluuons,
| much ~ LIS bewilderDent.
| K,fcu.rs IN pursuing their melancholy task, came
| urOn little boy confined beneath the ruins, VINO,
WHEN they proceeded to eAtrlcd'e him begged them 10
| leave him and get out hn sister who was near him.
| One mhn found TWO young omen III a comparatively
con Iable Tosiiion ard banded them Coffee with tue
eh, ering assurance that in hteeD minutes they would
lie retcued. But alas for the deusion Of nope. The
fire aJpiOacied and 1t gradually neaIed the two
sufferer heir enreatiss to be saved enough 20
make ibe stouest heart quail. Men Tedoubled their
eAeItous, but in vain the flames developed The poor
eaturet who Ierisbed before the eyes o their would
! be dtyerers.
One entire family OF five persons, all employed in
| ,he mill were prOviden,iuly eaved, and the poor
| u.o,Lor gut eIng her children about her, amid the
darkness that surrounded her, her heart bunting with
gratitude for their dehyerance, offered up ferVens
| payer 10 Heaven.
Mis- Selma Weeks of Dover, ~ H., worked in the
| spool room, IN the sixth sOIy. She went down With
tie building and WHEEL sbe recovered from the shock,
SIZE VAS snndug upon the floor OF the spool room her
body hall coccealed amid The ruins She escaped I'M
| hut aud returned TO be home last evening.
marvellous escape from Death is related OF little
sirl about ten or twelve years old. She was found
with her feet sread vide apart by huge mars OF iron
| that would probably weigh thousand pounds. Close
On either lice were heavy pieces Of machinery, and
| over her back large tInber, lille of her arms
| was thrust through al iron ring. All these heavy
articles i'll close cohtact with her body, 80 that
ehe could move aud yet, strange 10 she was
r,scued with only slight injuries. How che could have
| get INTO RI IA position Is marvel
! Another ,OuDg girl wss buried feet deep under
rubbish but her scieaIns neiDg heard parties 10
| axtr hap ifpr lBu AM
they succeeded in removing The auperiDcumbent mass,
When, TO their astoiirhbebt, the gri jumped olmbly
up aud Skipping away, greatly pleased at her lib
| eIatIOu, ara Lot Iii the lei.et hut
| Among the companions Of Mise Weeks, who shared
@ s'm,lar experience and saved, Ssrsn For
| luth Lucv Campbell, Jenny Blanchard, Anna Good
win sno Mary York. Al the depvt, las, evening, our
lei oTer met three young women, members OF family
OF seven, named Luck, who we're all III t1e mill no the
tire OF the fail all Of whom escaped without serious
iriury One Of Them Jane Luck, after beiog buried
FIVE hour beneath The ruins, was rescued without re-
eeIv,Dg much d scratch. Auna Luck. one of the
Oldest fiseis, was standing near the loom when the
| cIBfb cane. She infianIIy threw herself under tie
loom, aud called 10 Elizabeth Fish aDd Pheiia Barnes
10 follow her example. They did 10, and were all
| three saved.
Al aH citing ecene occurred during the early part OF
| the evening, " hicb melted the hearts OF ell who Wit
nested it. iitle boy, whose only friend on earth
| was bis mother, and that mother employed IN inc
mill wandered about among the crowd, s0bbIng ao II
| is htle heart would break, aud begging the by
islanders biz mother The prayers OF the little
| fellow seIe gnsweredi bus mother was saved, ana
clasIjIg her III her b. HE Joy knew no BOUNDS
| one extreme succeeding another.
boy al WORK ia one of the upper rooms, hearing OF
| The rrath had the presence of mlDd To jump 10
| waste box, which, with its occupant, WAS buried
several ieet ben-ath the ruins. When the rescuers
raj. ed The pile Of rdsbsh from the box, he young
hero sprang from his harrow lrisop, and walked away
| 81 coOllJ az if nothing had happened.
Tie LUCK sister had one un,le killed and another
| fatally lure d. All there girls windows.
| DR.. s. A. Lord OF South DanvCfs called 10 at
| ted TWO Young women ~bO in the third story
Of d null In fi5lIng of them Mali WEIGH, bad
two fl gers caught in the machinery. la agony OF
,sIar she literally tore them off, ard crawed out
through opening III the rn2s tearing her clothes CON-
| ll.iey nom her body. Her Up wss badly Injured.
tsr c, mIaniop vlO escaped through the same open
| ing, was dreadfnlly bruised and scratched
! man name Demon Wybom overseer in charge
of the looms iD the base and first story barred
beneath twelve teet of ruins. BY almost supefhuman
extrion and after repeatedly sinking bach in despair
lie succeeded in clearing passage to where no cOnd
be reached by tbose outside and was thereby saved.
| FEMALE FiREMEs.
| The omen of Lawrence, heroiues in every spoeTe
duTug The fearful OF the hour, won aufels in
the Fire Department also. When, after nouns Of ex-
tltne eAeTtIOn the freneD, worn down and quite ex
bausied rallied for help, bevy Of ladies who were
standing on the ndeHal in Cnna street. flew over 20
the enQiner and " manning" the brakes worked the
machine amid the cheers Of the iromen.
TBy TeIegrsph.l
Bosros, Thursday, Jan. ~, 1860.
| Under date Of Lawrence, Thursday morning, tho
coJerpC ndent Of Tie Courier writes that OF the
dead st the City Hall have besn recognized and
moved 20 their respective homes receive the rss Of
tepuliure Others in which resemblance to hunGni-
" was ainost obterated, were placed in large boxes