Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-12

remaining. The building was five stories
high. $50 feet long and 40 wide, with n
wing on the west side, IS feet square;
| shaped like the letter L. 1t run a,7OO
spindlcs. Nine hundred and sixty opera
tives were employed.
The following is n list of killed as far
can be recognized this morning: Maurice
of Lowell; Mary McDoWalI. Bridget Ryan,
burn, Barnard Collifeld, Hannah Shaw.
Ellen Roam, Ellen Sullivan, Margaret Full
en-, Bridget Laugherty, Jeremiah Ahern,
! Miss Ann Mulrux. Joanna Crounan, Bridget
Laughly. Mary Howard, Lafayette Branch,
IOYerseer: ThOs. W. Watson aud Johanna
Hurley. all of Lawrence
Among the wounded are Eliza Dow. ia
tally; Bridget Bradley, fatally: Kate Harg-
bee, German, thigh fractured; Geo. Car
caller; Henry Cali and Margaret Hamilton,
both fatally; D. p. Harron, Cecilia Stevens,
Mary and Margaret SInven, Mary Kennedy,
Hannah Henuessey, Ellen Makmy, Mary
| York Robt. tIuys. Ira D. Lock, Mary A.
Coleman, Sarah Doyle, John and Elizabeth
Ward and Thos. Conner.
Among the physicians present is Dir.
Isaac Farrar, of Brooklyn. Three persons
are known to have been literally roasted
alive. Eliza Dow has since died and otlI-
crs are dying. The fire is subdued. Only
two bodies have been taken out since the
conaagration. Coroner Lamb commences
an inquest to-day. The building was un-
| insured.
SEVENTH DESPATCH.
P. M.-We have very little additional
in regard TO the dreadful catastrophe. a
large portion of the killed are young girls,
many of them being main supports of their
parents. The fire was confined to the ru-
ms of the Pcmberton Mills. The loss of
property is estimated at 100000. The
Mayor has issued the following notice:
LAWRENCE, Jan. IL.
Terrible as our calamity has been, think
| it is much over-estimated in the number
killed. As near as have been able to as
certain this morning find the dead and
missing (Which is equivalent to dead) ll5,
and lGO wounded, Some of the wounded
will die but very much the larger number
will survive. (Signed)
y. SAUNDERS, Jr., Mayor.
! Busrox, Jan. 1.-THE Lawrence cataS-
: trOphe casts a gloom over the city. Hon.
David Sears, presided at meeting of
twenty gentlemen to-day, who subscribed
$4,000 for the relief of the sufferers, and
contributions.
The trains to Lawrence are crowded. \
strong body of reporters are on the ground,
and the accounts received are vOlumnOuS,
but really afford little news.
John Ward, an operative in the carding
room of the second story, who was mi
raculOusly saved, with his wife, who work
ed near him, describes his escape as fol-
lows:-I was in the carding room with the
second Ovcrseer, lighting up; it was or
10 minutes before o'clock, we had but II
\
heard Il loud, laundering crash overheard
and looking up saw the shafting coming
down upon MS all over the room, terrified,
stood fastened to the spot, although l
knew the building was coming on me;
then heard the Overseer shout; tried to
Jump out of the rubbish but something
struck me senseless; when l came to,
found myself in the rubbish, covered with
blood from wounds ON my face; finally l
Crnwlcd up and got to the top and found
lot OF ruins hanging over me, which liked
to hive taken my life, but succeeded in
getting out. passed IL dead girl and two
manglcd bodies. When WAS first knock
ed down fell under IL heavy grinding
stone..which was too heavy to give way to
the weight above. Ward found his wife at
the City Hall.
The following is one of the hcartrend-
ing incidents:-Margaret Hamilton, aged
IA, was so seriously injured that she died
to-day. This was her first days work.
Her devoted mother attended her, aud
when asked what injuries her daughter
received, replied, 'iHer arm is broken and
her head is broken, and oil, my God - and
here the poor woman burst into tears, my
poor darling is all broken! The daugh-
ter was the main support OF her mother
and children.
Miss Olive Bridges, of Calais, Maine.
hosting chain of the Elevator, and went
safely down and escaped uninjured.
Before the building caught FIRE, Il num-
Der of those imprisoned beneath the ruins
could be seen and converscd with
Drinks and refreshments. in some in
stances. were passed to them. When the
fire spread over the ruins they found eS-
cape hopeless, and bid adieu to friends,
and in several cases gave directions rs to
the disposition of their effects. In one
part of the building n hole was battered
through wall, and through it conld he
seen three young women, who said they
were not at all injured. One thrust her
arm through the small aperture and
begged to be drawn through, but before
the aperture could be made large enough.
the flames drove the men away, and the
prisoners persisted.
A jury was summoned, who, after re-
viewing the dead. adjourned till tomorrow.
The insurance on the PembcrtOn Mills
was S4I5, 900, said to be against fire
only.
CONGRESSIONAL.