The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-25

perhaps even iarSerJ running ON the track q
Akron or Olivesburg, and almost breaking it
head, reminds us of this circumstance, to wit
That JOSEPH WATSON honestly intends, a
ever heretofore, to execute all the promises
made in his advertisement. Locomotives ant
even tracks may switch Off" but j. WAS
soN-never!
Incident of the Lawrence Tragedy.
The correspondent Of the Boston Journa
says: o.i55s.7 IL -s,sse .-a
A citizen, who risked his own life, in an at
tempt to save the operatives from the burning
pile, worked his way into an inner apartment
and looking through a hole in the wall, saw
two men and a woman WALKING to ard fro
apparently entirely unhurt.
He reached through, aud took them by the
hand, and proceeded with vigorous blows tt
make a hole in the partition. A moment toe
soon the flames sprung up where he stood. A
food of water poured in upon it and blinded
him, and he rushed from the place, warned By
the engineer, and narrowly escaping with his
life. - ,rl
All the goods, stock and machinery is de.
stroyed with the mill, and even the books
were not saved, such was the suddeness of tie
alarm and the excitement it occasioned.
TIL people foeked to the City Hall, anx.
iously inquiring for their friends and relatives.
Every chance of hope was eagerly seized up
on, until the inquirers found those whom they
sought in the list of dead, or failed to find
them at all.
As 1 write, the walls and slrieks of those
who seek in vain for their friends ring through
the hall. Women faint in tie corridors and
are borne away. The anguish of those who
do not find their friends far exceeds that of
the few who find only their unsightly remains.
The Boston Herald says:
The ruins lay in one confused heap. cover
ing an area of about two acres, and piled up
to a height of about thirty feet.
From nearly every hole and crevice in this
vast pile, from the top, from the sides, and in
fact from every fssure from whence a voice
from the inside could make its way, came
shrieks for help, groans of anguish, prayers
and meanings. and in many, very many cases,
the poor sufferers could be distinctly seen,
talked to, and even reached by the hand from
the outside. Many thus imprisoned were en-
couraeed and sustained by assurances OF safety,
and in many cases cups of coffee could be, and
were passed down to those below, who alas af-
ter all this near approach to safety, saw hour
after hour pass away, until at last the frightful
cry of fire and the greedy licking of the flames
as they approached with fearful rapidity, crack
ling and kissing all over the remains on the
ground told them too plainly that all hope of
life was gone. About seventy-fve persons,
men, women and children, more or less wound
ed, were taken out.
At one point when a rope had been fixed to
a projecting timber, a call was made to the
crowd to take hold and pull with a will, but
for a few minutes, such was the danger of the
attempt-forth the beam in falling might engulph
all near it-for 6 few minutes, we say, the call
was unheeded. Men shuddercd and drew back
they would risk much to save those below,
but life was sweet and the danger great. At
this critical %juncture a woman rushed from
among the crowd, and daring the spectators to
follow, seized the rope and attempted to mount
the pile of smouldering ruins to clear away
with her hands. The example was enough;
not a word was said, but strong hands at once
drew her back, and then there were TO lack of
hands to the rope, the beam was drawn out,
and at least two sufferers were released from
the opening thus made.
The sights and scene at this period of the
disaster were frightful. One poor girl. alive
and fully conscious. was dragged from the east
end of the fallen mass, with her left arm torn
from the socket, and her body and legs ~awfully
mangled. She was taken by her friends, but
could not have survived long. In one place
the bodies of three girls were found in each
others arms but quite dead. They could not
be removed without mansling the bodies, and
being abandoned for a time, the flames broke
out before another attempt was made, and all
three persisted.
Next from the ruins we saw the dead body
of a lad, and following him was borne a girl
with one of her ankles burnt TO a crisp. She
had been confined by one foot between two
beams, and only by the utmost e~xertion was
reco vcred.
i. One woman was found with her head JAM
med between two heavy beams, and pressed so
That it was not thicker than the thickness of a
It was a slckening sight
a bodily at work in ne of the upper rooms,
hearing of the crash, had the presence of mind
to jump into q waste box, which, with its occu-
pant, was buried several feet beneath the ru-
When the rescuers raised the pile of rub
bish of the box, the young hero sprang from
his narrow prison, and walked away as coolly as
If nothing had happened.
Tie women of Lawrence, heroines in every
sphere during the fearful scenes of the hour,
won laurels in the fire department also. When,
after hours of extreme e~xertion, the fremen
worn down and quite exhausted, called for help,
1 bevy of ladies who were standing on the
side walk in Canal street, flew over to the en-
gines. and manning" the brakes, worked the
amid the cheers of the fremen.
AT the depot, last evening, our reporter met
three young women, members OF a family OF
seven, named Luck, who were all in the mill
1t the time of the fail, 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
older sisters, was standing near the loom when
the crash came She instantly threw herself
ander the loom, and called to Elizabeth Fish
and Phelia Barnes to follow her example,
They did so, and were all three saved.
United States Senator.