Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-20


The streets are filed with mass of human
beings, every one eager to do and see ant
hear. Friends, who before the FIRE were
alternating between hope and fear, are
now settling down into hopeless despair
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
LAWRENCE CALMITY.
LAWRENCE Mass, IL, P. NJ.
A portion of the operatives had left fol
supper previous TO the falling of the build.
ing-about 600 remaining. The building
was five stories high, $50 feet long by IS
feet wide, with wing on the west side As
feet square, shaped like the letter j.. Ii
ran 2,700 spindles, and 900 operatives
were employed.
The following is list of the killed, as
far as can be recognized this morning:
Maurice Bulwer, of Rochester, N. Y. I;
Jno. Dearborn, of Lowell; MaryM Donald,
Bridget Ryan, Mary Sullivan. Michal
O'Brien, Ellen Colburn, Barnan Colli6eld,
Hannah Shaw, Ellen Roam, Ellen Sullivan,
Margaret Fuller, Bridget Langherdy, j.
A. Hern, Mrs. Anna Mulrux, Joanna
Cronnan, Bridget Laughey, Mary Howard,
Lafayette Branch, overseer Thos. w. Wat
son, and Johanna Hurley--all of Law
renee.
Among the wounded are: Eliza Dow.
fatally; Bridget Bradley, fatally; Kate
Ilarghbee, a German-thigh fractured /;
Geo. Carcalfer Henry Cali and Margaret
Hamilton, both fatally; D. p. Harron,
Cecilia Stevens, Mary and Margaret Slaven,
Mary Kennedy, Hannah Kennesey, Ellen
Mahoney, Mary York, Robt Hays, Ira D.
Lockmery, A. Coleman, Sarah Doyle, John
and Elizabeth Ward, and Thos. Conner.
Among the physicians present is DR.. Issac
Farrar, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Three persons are known to have been
literally roasted alive. Eliza Dow has
since died and others are dying. The fire
has been subdued; only two bodies have
been taken out since the confagration.-
Coroner Lamb commences an inquest to-
day. The building was uninsured
Second Dipatch-L Laurence o'clock p.
M.--We have very little additional in re-
gard to the dreadful catastrophe. A large
portion of the killed are yong 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 S600,000 The Mayor has
issued the following notice
laurence, Jan. 11-Terrible as our
calamity has been, I think it is much over
estimated in the number of killed As
near as / have heen able to ascertain this
morning, | find that the dead and missing.
which is equivalent to dead. is 115, and
100 wounded. Some of the wounded will
die, but very much the larger number will
survive
(signed). N. N.sAUNDERS, Jr., Mayor.
BosToN, Jan. IL.
The Lawrence catastrophe casts n gloom
over the city. The Hon. David Sears
presided at meeting Of twenty gentlemen
today who subscribed $4,000 for the relief
of the sufferers, and appointed commit
tee to solicit further contributions.
The trains to Lawrence are crowded.
A strong force Of reporters is on the ground
and the accounts received are voluminous.
but really afford but little news
John Ward, an operative in the carding
room of the second story, who was mira
culously saved, with his wife, who worked
near him, describes their escape as follows:
Was in the carding room with the second
overseer; we we're lighting mp; it was five
or ten minutes before 5 o'clock; we had
but few burners lighted; suddenly heard
\ loud, laundering crash overhead, and,
looking up, saw the shafting coming down
upon us all over the room; terrified,
stood fastened to the SPOT, although
knew tho building was coming on me
then | heard the overseer shout; / tried
to jump out of the rubbish, but someth-
ing struck me senseless; when | came to
found myself in the rubbish covered
with blood from wounds in my face; finally
| crawled up and got to the top and found
lot Of ruins over me which liked to have
taken my life, but l succeeded in gettina
out; passed a dead girl and two mangl-
ed bodies when first was knocked down
| fell under a 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 heart rend
ing Incidents Margaret Hamilton ageC
IA. This was her first days work. lie,
devoted mothe, attended her, and wher
asked what injuries her daughter had re
ceivcd replied; Her arm is broken ant
her head is broken and oh, my God =
And here the poor woman burst into tears
1 Nv poor darling is all broken. The un
fortunate girl died today. The daughte,
was the main support of her mother an'
four children.
Miss Olive Bridges, of Calius, Me-, VIII,
worked in the fifth story, seized the hoist
ing chain Of the elevator aud went safel,
down and escaped uninjured
Before the building caught fire a mum
Der of those imprisoned beneath the ruin
could be seen and conversed with. Drink
aud refreshments were in some Instance
passed TO them. When the fire sprea
. rva, tl,a ,l,,tpa thas. f,,xn1 aeaaoa horolaa.