Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-26
.. a short time after she heard the

and despair. After half hour, which
seemed an age, the daughter was found,
taken from the ruins and restored to
her mother, almost uninjured. The JOY
of the meeting overshadowed the pro.
longcd anxiety of the mother. Her
strength, which had been nerved by ex-
element, rank when she found her
daughter safe. On recovering and re-
turning the wild embrace Of her mother |
the girl exclaimed with sparkling eyes,
and an expression almost angelic, "Oh,
mother, | have been SO happy She
had looked forward to death without a
fer, even with a joy she lad never
known.
A second hand and several Others
were in the ruins near her. They had
fallen from the fifth story, aud were pea
ned in by the machinery and timbers,
expecting every moment that the root
would settle in upon and crush them.
Quite number were near her, many
of them wounded, and some OF them IN
the agoncs Of death. Yet after this
shock and its terrifying effect, while
death seemed near and certain, the
young girl was self-possessed and calm.
She exhorted those around her to pre-
pare for death, losing no time and lack
ing 40 earnestuess, when time and per-
suasion were so precious. She continued
in this way, forgetting all thoughts of
life, and preaching repentance until she
was discovered by those who were
scarchi 6 among the ruins, and borne
away. These facts, which the Christian
heroine has been too modest TO tell, are
well authenticated by those who were
near her when she vas in the ruins, and
when she met her mother.
THE LAST ONH SAVED FROM TIE RUINS.
At tho bedside of Mr.. Ira j.. Nash,
our reporter had the melancholy salts
| faction of listening to the narrative of
the last of those who were taken from
the ruins alive. Mr.. Nash is native
Of Dcering, N. H., and has wife and
child in one of the Western States. lie
worked in the weaving room of the
Pemberton Mill, and SO sudden was the
destruction of the building, that he was
not conscious of it until he had been
some time under the ruins, nor is he
aware to this hour what struck him. He
went down amid the general crash, and
was not rescued until twelve o'clock.
When found, he was borne down by a
beam OF enormous weight across his
side. Before he was cxtrlcated. the fire
approached so near as to scorch his arm.
The rescuers despaired of saving his
life, and told him they ''would have to
break off and let him co. He talked
quite freely with them, and evinced
throughout calmness and resignation
which nerved those about him to re-
newed efforts. The water was falling
upon him, and he said, 'If you can't
save me, why let me 60" lie however
requested them to get crowbar and
raise the ruins of five stones which was
above him. This was done, and he was
rescued. lie lost his reason soon after,
and was insensble for several days. He
Is still great sufferer, but will probably
recover.
A STIRLING INSTANCE OF sELF-sACRIFICE
The circumstance of the rescue of Mr..
Ira d. Nash, and the melancholy fate o.
Miss Lizzie Flint, who, when efforts
were being made to save her, heroically
directed the rescuers to save Nash
first" have been alluded to. A more
minute account will display the heroism
of the noble girl in a stronger light
!, , When the crash occurred Mr.. Nash who
was at tho time in the third story, near
Miss Flint, locked up and exclaimed, fol
Gods sake let's 60 to the lower end
They took two steps i'll that direction
. when he was struck on the shoulder by
counter-shaft, and the two went down
together. Miss Flint lay upon the floor
with the shoulder OF MIR. Nash borne
down by the shaft, upon her leg with
;. such force as to break it. His head
0 restcdin her lap, and in this position they
I both lay for several hours. She unite
C his handkerchief and looscned his collar
She complained of the numbncss of hcl
t leg, and said she cold get ont if Nasl
. would move his shoulder, which was
impossible, the pressure upon it being sc
great as to burst the flesh upon the bal
9 Of 3 hand in two places. She uttered
:, no complaints, but when help arrived
1 she directed them where to work, saying
e to Nash, They'll have to get you on
n first" While the men were at work sh'
d tainted, and after Nash was rescued 18th
err victims in the came locality cried fol
e assistance, which probably mislcd then
!. from the spot where she lay, and oycl
# which the remorselcss flames soon ate
: swept. Miss Flint belonged to Ea,
e Pittstield, Me. a brother came here tn
d day after the catastrophe, and sought ii
Il vain for his lost sister.
DAY OF PRAYER.
The religious exercises held i'll nearl
q all the churches OF tho city Tuesday
n have already had good effect. 1t i
n easy to perceive that the holy influence
y of the day have not teen lost upon tn
r people. Especially tina. class to whicl
= most of the dead and wounded belonge,
p have been consolcd and encouraged.
The fears of some that days liberi,
would be largely abused, have prove,
:. groundless. Nearly all Of the popula
: ton, not confined by the care of tn
n suffering, were abroad. They filled til
y churches and thronged the streets, an
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