New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-20

/ had probably lail, in place where her head alone
was exposed to the flames and had burned her
hands in attemptinglio protect It. Nothing remains
/ standing All the scene of the disaster except the
immense chimneys, through which ran the shafting
/ which carried on the works. The wood and timber
/ work has pretty much all been removed from the
| spot and Nothing now remains but crushed and
| mingled mass of bricks, mortar and broken ma
/ chinery.
| The Pentberton Corporation has the ruins in
charge. and have employed about fifty men in
clearing away the rubbish. Their progress, how
was but slight. The volunteers who had worked
there with almost superhuman efforts for "a hours,
were worn out with fatigue, and it was impossible
this morning to hire laborers to'prosecute the task
/ Of exhumihg those who yet lie buried in the rub
| bish. Thesmoke is still ascending from the black
heaps, and ia stream from the fire engine from Man
| chester was kept on the heated mass.
! LAWRENCE, Jan. 13.-The eoroner's jury reas.
sembled this morning. The testimony during the
| forenoon was mainly in relation to the eonstruc-
ton of the building, but nothing new was elected
| Three more bodies were taken from the ruins to-
| day. They were all badly mutated-two of them
so badly that they could not be recognized The
third was discovered bya fragment of clothing to
be that Of Mrs. Augustine Ann Aslworth. She
was Is years of age and was married in March last
Her husband is shoemaker and works at North
Salem Her body was nearly consumed. The
body taken out last night has been identified as
that of Mrs. Margaret Turner.
Stephen Wallace, a mason who worked on the
mill. confirmed the story about the water running
through The foundation Of the MILL and thought It
true that the foundation might have been UNDER
mined by water; thought the walls too thin never
worked on large mill thin; the mortar used
was good; the bricks were hard but rough.
Maurice Knowles, a carpenter, who worked on
the Pemberton Mill, did net know that he had ever
worked in mill with walls so thick as these He
thought at the time that the snoring of the floors
was insufficient and the caps on the pilasters too
small thought he had never seen mill so much
cut up with windows this would weaken the walls;
didn't think the crack by the chimney weakened
the building materially; could not give decided
opinion as to the cause of the fall but thought from
presentappearances that the pillars gave way first.
Benz. Coolidge, assistant engineer of the Essex
Company. at the time Of the building of the Penn
berton MI Ills, testified that the soil was remarkably
solid land that the loan under that was the bowl
der foundation, extending three or four feet com
posed of stones from 500 pounds weight down to
the size df mans head and also sand; under this
hes what is called in Lawrence, euddling, some
times SO solid that it breaks out in Jumps when
dry, and when wet, as in the Pemberton Mills. a
little mud leaks out of it under that is a peculiar
qulcksand, useless to excavate it as it comes up
we only touched this in the excavation for the
whole building, which is not the main building
there never was foundation wall laid in Lawrence
equal to that in solidity and strength; it was made
with stones long enough to go across; | think the
foundation will be found solid now.