Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-14
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THE LAWRENCE CATASTROPHE.
Further Highly Interesting Details.

LAWRENCE, Mass. Jan. Ii, Z. MI we eorld I'M
forget the cause our OF crowded streets we sluuld N
once conclude that some great occasion o. n ,,lla
9hy mad arrived but the of sadness and, lrlost
despair 50 yisiby depicted on the cotntenanc,.s 4,
our eitzens keeps the dark reality constantly before
our mnds- Every train from every direetion colnls
III aden 10 ITS utmost capacity with living f.iefls
"heh we consider that not less than 100 long pas-
sSsef cars nave been IN here to-day, some realizing
llea may Dc arrived in regard to the nun1bav ~
our visitors. The morning and forenoon were useI
IN removing the rubbish after being sufficiently
cooled IN order if possible, 10 get the bodies known
- DC sun under the RUNS Quite number got out
Two persons were taken out alive early this morn
ing A squad of canvassers was oroaDigsd ami no
Whole city lald out into small districts and \ prettv
thorough canvass was entered into the mon ,roiDo
from house to house, thereby ascertaining in ey-9
! ry family where persons were either. vyou,3e,I
/ missing, or safe The summing up shows thar If5
persons are missing This embraces all those known
] to have been killed and those OF whom no tidings
/ have been obtained. 1t is admitted by those VINO
have gone into the investigation that 81 persons are
yet inundated in the brick and mortar One ham
dred and thirty dead bodies have been removed to
I the city hall. or been delivered to recognizing
/ friends
Previous 70 the fire. two sisters were together
and comparatively unhurt. Tney would have been
rescued Hearing the roar Of the flames they ex-
claimed, Oh, GOdl we have got to die y
One woman shrIeked out pitieOusy that the fire
was burning her hair, but the flames soon after 81
fenced ieT cries. 1t has already been stated that
one man cut his throat lest he should be burned
alive. Mr. Branch told his friends who were digging
for him, that he should resort to the same means to
escape the fortunes Of the fire. He was persuaded
to desist and fortunately rescued from the aw-
tul death that died, was fearfully attested
by the baked and blaekened forms that were taken
out-but not anything like those of human beings
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. I2.-At the inquest held
to-day, Jesse Glover, the Overseer of the repair
shop, testified that he had at times seen cracks in
the walls, but lothing he considered serious Had
never strengthened the walls with iron work but
heard It was so strengthened He thought the
building was a separate building. He had examin-
ed it since the accident
Mr. Chase agent Of the MILL testified to his escape
lie SAID there was less weight at the end which fell
than at the other; that four fly frames IN the fourth
story had been moved that day from the part which
fell TO another place; they weighed ton and a half
There were probably eight hundred persons in the 4
building. he did not know how the fire caught !
Inc Essex Company built mill He did net know 1
now II was built There were cracks each side Of \
the chimney; come by the swaying Of the chimnev.
The chimney had broken away from the building I
and iron had been. placed around to strengthen it,
but not from any fear Of the building itself There
have been no new cracks near the chimney for two
years; know of no other cracks in the building He
considered the building SAFE rs it had stood Six
years.
John Patterson Overseer IN the weaving room in
the basement testified as TO his escape. Had heard
e.
noticed anything about the building to make him
think Mr.. COrliss, who put in the shafting had
told Mr.. Winn an Overseer that he did not consider
the building safe; also understood that he had said
that the tive upright shafts would in time shake the
end OF the building out doubt if there are over 30
persons employed in my ROOM killed there: 3O4
employed there last Monday.
John Finder Wolf a manufacturer in the Wash
lngton Mills, testified that he, with others. had
helped what they could we got the roof off and
took machinery, wood and bodies there were
some men near me with lanterns. and as they
were not doing any good, / said, for Gods sake
take care Of those lanterns, there is cotton all
around here; saw four men going into a hole
with two lanterns and shortly return with only one
lantern, and in moment after saw flames the men
ran into the crowd, and he after them the lanterns
were guarded ones and think they were filled with
oil the fire took from loose cotton. which was
hanging about the earding machines.
Richard H. Plummer testified, that various men
went to work to clear away the ruins with axes
and bars, and two men had lanterns to see to work
by; that by some accident one lantern broke or fell
and when the flames struck the cotton. fire at once
sprung up.
The inquest will last several DAYS