Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-26
The Lawrence CaIamity.-.lnteresti
Facts ana Incidents.
fIOW tut DUslVH JUUII I'tII.I
THE NUMBER OF THE LOST.

THE NUMBER OF THE LOST.
The payroll Of the company contains
the names Of $50 operatives, of whom
615 were employed in the main building,
which fell. By the most careful inves-
tieation the whole number now known
to be dead and missing is eigt tyeight,
which in all probability is not far from
the actual loss. Mrs. Margaret Donne-
~ was reported as missing to-day, and
another operative, who has been classed
among the dead came forward and
claimed her wages leaving the number
stated above unchanged. Compare this
account with the figures of Coroner
Lamb, who has the names of seventy
three dead and recognized, and list OF
fifteen bodies buried, without Identified
ton, and the total of deaths thus far by
the accident is lightweight.
THE SURVIVORS EECEIvINa THEIR WAGES.
Mr.. +. +. Clark, Paymaster of tho
Pemberton Mills, commenced paying off
the survivors Of the calamity, at the
counting room of the Essex Company,
at o. O'Clock this morning. About
$4,000 will bo required for the purpose.
The operatives employed in the card
and dress rooms were paid off this fore
noon, the spinncrs received their wages
in the afternoon, the winders tomorrow,
the weavers tomorrow afternoon, and
the remaining employees, including those
employed in the machine shop, cloth
aud eye house and outside will be paid
off on Friday.
The money due to those who were
killed will be paid to those next Of kin.
Those having homes in other parts of
the country, are in most instances leav-
ing the city. Many Of those who came
forward TO Obtain their wages exhibited
flesh wounds and Commissions received In
their escape from the ruins. Parents
came to collect the last earnings Of those
upon whom they had hoped to lean in
their old age, and children to receive the
hard-earncd wages of parents, upon
whom they have TIL now depended for
support. The widow, in the sable garb
Of grief, accepted the balance due her
lost one, and the last earthly accounts
of those from AIR were settled by their
relatives or friends.
TEMPORARY HOSPITAL FOR TIE INJURED.
At the suggestion and through the
cooperation OF several philan,hropic
gentlemen in Boston, the house No. 10
Pemberton Corporation, has been ap-
propriated to the reception of such OF
,he injured as are destitute of home and
kindred, and are now dependant upon
the charity of fiiends for relief. The
house has been fitted up through the
liberality of the Boston gentlemen, and
provided with rything that will pro-
mote the comfort of the sufferers who
may choose to exchange their limitet
and unwholesome quarters for spaciou.
apartments and pure atmosphere in thi.
ssPemberton Home" A corps Of ply
sicians from the Boston Medical Hos
ptal have volunteered their services t.
relieve the Lawrence physicians, givins
their personal attention to patients sen
to the "Home." The founders OF tn
hospital have also provided a staff Q
experienced nurses Of both sexes.
MISSIONARY IN THE RUINS.
One OF the young ladies who made re
marks in the Baptist Prayer Meetin!
was admirably described by her pastor
as he gave me an incident, which fol
lows. She is a girl Of more than ord
nary capacity. She worked in the mi
and her mother worked with her. Oh
, the day of the accident the mother LEI
the mill in the afternoon, as her worl
had given out, regretting her loss Q