Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-13
THE DISASTER AT LAWRENCE.
More Particulars.


1t is said that not less than thirty thou
sand people visited Lawrence on Wednes-
day. They swarmed into the city from every
direction,-some to know the fate of their
friends, and some to see the ruins. With the
many well behaved people came some pick
pockets and some roughs. There was one
company of fellows who show considerable
drunken brutality. The Travellers reporter
saws AT the Franklin House there was
tremendous crowd during the whole day, and
a party of rougls created row which ended
in broken chairs, bloody noses and torn
clothing The more law-abiding of the crowd
succeeded in quelling the tumult before further
violence had been committed. AT the depot a
small party of young inebriates, who loudly
boosted that they were Manchester boys"
and could click all Lawrence" were very anx-
ious for "a fight The crowd suddenly surg
ed, and the Wanted proves of the Manches.
ter party was inadequate to the pressure.
They rolled from the platform into the dirt.
They showed no more fight" So great was the
influx of visitors, thatevery eating house andre
freshment stand was exhausted land thousands
could neither find food or shelter. The rush
continued yesterday. One reporter says
GAS an evidence of the solemnity of feeling
which was caused by the disaster, it was inter
esting to hear the firemen Tightening their Ia
bors at the brakes, and cheering each other to
renewed exertions, not with idle song and gay
tunes, but with revival melodies and old fash
Toned psalm tunes"
THE RUINS YESTERDAY.
Thursday, IL o'clock-Smoke is still issuing
from the ruins, and several streams OF water
are playing upon them. A large pile OF half
consumed cotton at the west end of the mills,
has proved to be mass of fire, but has been
scattered and extnguished. Nothing can be
conceived more desolate than the appearance
of the wreck, half covered by the snow already
fallen, and seen through the medium of that
yet falling and whirling in eddes around the
chimney and tall angle of the wall that STAND
like sentinels warning all not to come near
A force of one hundred to two hundred work
men was engaged in continuing the work OF
removing the broken timbers and machinery.
The snow storm renders the labor more severe
than it would otherwise be. On survey of
the ruins, the picture presented is chaotic
mass of shattered looms, mules, geaing, betting,
and shafting, piled in layers one upon the other,
and forming many deep, dark chasms, extend
ing under the whole. 1t has not yet been
possible to remove all the bodies" So the
Courie reporter and a report In the
Journal says =" Many OF the operatives
found shelter under the several floors, which,
being very strongly constructed, did not fall
entirely to pieces But what was to them
protection from the crushing effects of the fall
of the building, proved their final destruction.
When the fire broke out, these floors shed the
water like roofs, leaving the fire to rage be-
meath them, and the untortuuates were literal
ly roasted alive. Their groans and shrieks
were heart-rending, and superhuman efforts
were Wade to save them, but in vain. The
work of removing heavy machinery, immense
timbers, large masses Of brick work, and other
debris of the factory, was necessarily slow,
and the fire, which had been dreaded from the
first, when it had once commenced, was I'M
comfortable. About two thirds of the operat-
ives were foreigners. As usual, the dressing
room contained by far the larger proportion OF
American girls, but few of whose names ap-
pear in the list of killed"
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE OF A CHILD.
We find the following in the Traveller On
Tuesday evening, before the fire broke out,
while two thousand men were exerting every
energy in rescuing the survivors from theft
living sepulchres, and the dead from the rub
Dish which buried them, party came upon
the body of little girl. She lay apparently
crushed beneath ponderous block of iron,
weighing over thousand pounds, and which
covered her body to her chin. Her back was
pressed against huge timber one of her arms
was thrust to the elbow through ring in
piece of machinery, and she was completely
wedged in by heavy iron gearing. Intent only
or preserving her features and form as little
dsfigured as possible, the men abored careful
ly to remove the block of iron without crush
ing her still further. Four of them tugged
upon it, but could not make 1t stir. After they
had made several Intellectual attempts, stall
wart and athletic man, in passing, caught hold
of it, and with marvellous power, aided by the
excitement which the scene produced upon
him, he succeeded in loosening it. The other
rubbish was then removed and the body ia
ken out, when what was the surprise and joy
of the men to find that they had rescued liv-
ing girl, instead Of a corpse, and more, that her
injuries were not fatal, but comparatively tri-
fling. The heavy iron had met with some
more powerful obstruction than her body, and
her life was spared as if by miracle. Had the
pressure upon her body been but slightly in
creased, or had the least carelessness been al
lowed in extricating her, she would have been
another added to the list of the victims,
VARIOUS INCIDENTS.
Seven sisters named Luck were at work in
the MILL and all were saved alive. One of
them, Jane Luck, after being buried five hours
beneath the ruins, was rescued without so
much as scratch Anna Luck, one of the
older sisters, was standing near her loom when
the crash came. She instantly threw herself
under the loom, and called to Elizabeth Fish
and Pheia Barnes to follow her example.
They did so, and were all three saved. One
man in the card room, hearing the crash,
jumped into the waste-box and pulled the lid
down. The box was not crushed and he was got
out unnjured walking off as soon as the lid was
raised. One entire family of persons, all en-
ployed in the mill, was saved. One little boy
wandered among the workmen, sobbing for
his mother, his only friend, who was among
the ruins. She was finally rescued, and the
meeting would have melted the stoniest heart.
A young girl was buried ten feet under rub
bish, but her screams being heard, parties set
TO work to extricate her. After toiling long
and hard, they succeeded in removing the
superintendent mass, when, to their astonisll-
ment, the girl jumped nimbly up, and ran
skipping away, greatly pleased at her liberia
ton, and not in the least hurt
Mary Kennedy, aged 16, had leg broken,
and was MORALLY injured. She could scarcely
speak, but told the rescuers that she was from
Antrim, Ireland, where she had friends but
she didn't want to distress them by having
her mistortunes put into the papers," They
came upon little boy confined beneath the
ruins, who when they proceeded to extricate