New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-12
THE LAWRENCE CALAMITY
FULL PARTICULARS.
1872 PERSONS KILLED.
HUNDREDS BURIED ALIVE.
TERRIBLE SCENES,
AGAIN. OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
THE h'UINS ON FIRE.
ADpITlo. NAL HORROR.
THE DEAD AND LYING ROASTED.
A HORRIBLE FUsERaL pYRE.
THE hUINS ON FIRE.
ADpJTlo. NAL HORROR.
THE DEAD AND LYING ROASTED.
A HORRIBLE FEsERaL .pYRE.
MEETING Foe RELIEF.

LAWRENCE Wednesday, Jan. ii, 1852
A portion of the operatives had left for supper
previous to the falling of tho building-abOut 600
remaining.
The building was five steres high, $50 feet long
by 20 feet wide, with wing on the west side 45
feet square, shaped like the letter L.. 1t ran 2, 200
spindles; 800 operatives were employed.
Among the pby scians present is DR.. Isaac Farrar
of Brooklyn, n, Y.
Three persons are known to have been literally
roasted alive.
Eliza Orr has since died, and others are dying.
The FIRE is subdued.
Only two bodies have been taken out since the
conhagation.
Coroner Lpmb commences an inquest to-day.
The building was uninsured.
LAWRENCE, Wednesday, Jan. IL, 1860.
Terrible as our calamity is, think it is much over
estimated in the plumber killed. Az near as have
been able to ascertain hie morning, iud the dead,
AMI mssiDg-what 10 equivalent to dead-ll5, and
les wounded. Some of the wounded will die, but
very much the largest number will survive.
(sisned) D. SANDERS JR., Mayor.
LAWRENCE, | p. m.-We have gerry little addi-
tiona in regard to the dreadful catastrophe. A
large proportion Of the killed are young girls, many
of them being the main support of their parents.
The fire was confined to the ruins of the PembertOn
Mills. The loss of property is estimated at
100000.
BOsTON, Wednesday, Jan. II, 1860.
TIE terrible catastrophe at Lawrence has spread
a gloom over the city. 1t is the principal subject
of conversation.
The Hon. David Sears presided over q meeting
of twenty gentlemen this afternoon, who subscribed
81 600 for the relief of the sufferers, and appointed
a Committee to solicit further contributions.
The several trains to Lawrence have been
crowded during the day, with passengers either in
tcrested in friends there to render assistance,
from morbid curiosity.
A strong force of reporters for the press are on
the ground and the accounts received are yOlani
nous, but really afford little to add to the many
facts already given
From Our Special Reporter.
LAWRENCE, Jan. 11-l2 a. m.
Last night was a night of the most unparalleled ex-
element and but few Of the citizens of the vlllge
slept, in the least All were busy working at the ru-
rescue the dead bodies of their friends from the ruins
or relieving the snerings of those who were buried
beneath the pile of rubbish.
The first frghtful crash coming suddenly just as the
gloom of night was gathering around, the immense
mass of broken and heavy material enyeoping so
many human beings the number killed in the violent
conclusion, the still greater number probably wounded
and inextrcaby entanged covered in the ruins be-
yond the possibility Of extricaiing themselves must
enlist the sympaties Of every heart.
This must, for the moment, have amazed and almost
parayzed those around, seeming to them like horri-
bic dream, and impossible to be realized.
Then too came what must have been anticipated by
discerning Observers the taking fire of this great
Of pitchpine TIMBER and plank, and other dry and in
famabe material, resting upon piles of brick and
crushed machinery, leaving it in position to bum
most rapidly and forcing the thousands of people la
boring TO extrcae the sufferers TO flee for their own
lives from the raging fiery furnace.
All this ia heart-sickeningto think upon. The confu-
zion, the agony, the excitement, the glare of the
flames az midnight and the efforts stay them, be
easily imagined but the most tragic description would
fall lar hort of the actual realty.
Such scene of horror can only have been paraleled
in the sack Of city taken by assault and given
over to destruction and the ravages OF infuriated
soldiery or by the devastation of violent earth
quake and even then within SO limited space could
never occur 1.-THE of the horrors concentrated within
and around the walls of this great altar OF Moloch for
whose denominations, either ignorance or ayarice in
some quarter must be losked to, as responsible.
II is evident that the construction of tue building
must have been faulty in the extreme, and it seems
hardly possible that s condition have been prop
erly observed for a long time, in months and years
back or some warning would have been found OF the
danger.
The Pemberon Mill was built some seven years
since, and the principal at that time were j.
A. Lowell +. c. Lowell, S. K. Putnam, and Lawrence,
Stone & Co.
The main building was in the form Of paralelogTau,
and Immediately adjacent to the storehouses of the
Washington Mills. II built of brick, five stories
high and has always been considered OF the finest
mills in Lawrence. 1t had Fat roof, like the Pacihc
Mills, with an ornate covin2. The exterior was OF
handsome appearance, with very large windows ex-
tending through two stories.
The spinning rooms were high studded, long and mar
row. without partitions, and crowded with looms 1t
is supposed the strength Of the mill has been severely
tried by the recent introduction Of heavy fancy looms.
The goods manufactured principally ticks, denus,
stripes and fancy eottons and have always taken the
highest rank Tor superiority and worth. The orders
for goods have frequently exceeded the supply. The
goods were sold 10 this city by David Neyns s. Co.,
mostly from samples, and ordered from the mill in the
quantities desired. They have recently produced sew
eral fancy double aud twist eottonades and were
taking orders for Spring deliveries.
II was originally Intended that the mill should cost
In hnt tba nla anfar