Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1860-01-21

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%, about hs. O'Clock while come six or seven
hundred operatives we're at work. The MILF
ere o complete wreck.
Some two ~ three hundred person. are atii
in The ruins. Al present it BE- impossible Co
give anything like a correct statement Of the
'r-= OF life, but froW the hest authority p, is
Believed that at least two hundred are dead
10 'be ruins. Eighteen dead bodice have sl-
ready been taken cut, together with come
trCuty Csc persons mortaily wounded, besides
auy bro different stages Of mutilation
Mr. Chase the agent Of the min, and Mr..
Howe the Treasurer escaped by running from
tnc faliug building. Oui reporter has Just
Gene from the RUSS, and the scene there beg
rurs al description. Some two or more acres
~ ground are piled up with every description
Of machinery Of the fallen buildings.
Huge bonfrcs are burning 70 light some two
o. three thousand persons who arc 1T work as
50 for their lives. 90 rescue the unfortunate
persons, msuy Of whom are still CRYING oai
begging 20 be released from their fortunes
Every minute some poor wretch Sc dragged
from his prison, and II is heart rending 20
hear heir cries aa thCy are drHSa ont, with
with legs md arms crushed aud torn. One
man, shookingly mnnsled, cut his own throat
10 end bic agony.
The whole city seems ia DO In mourning
Many IRE running through thc street, aud 9TH
crs, with frantic cries are searching the rufus.
Temporary hospitals have been arranged for
thoas rescued. Muuy atana ~ che a.saL
lrici3 with despair. Another terrible crarh
caused by tie clearing away, threatened
death 20 All who may still be alive in the ruins,
Gen II. X. Oliver Is conspicuous ind active
in directing those persons who are endoavor-
Ing 70 rescue the victims Of the Disaster
Gangs Of men with ropes below, are constant
- 1-,rr,r- ty.t Itu. tf..ra Of ,ha swrp.A
which imprison 20 many. Some Of the res
Cuers were killed in there humane efforts
Since We left The scene Of disaster, reports
# moro Of The dead end dying are constantly
coming 10 va,
Surgeons bro coming In from all directions,
and everything that oan dore At such q pain
fl moment, is !oiuE for the suffering victims
Of the fatal calamity, the mystery Of which
will have to be cleared up by en Inquest
sFcoND DISPATCH, II 80 p. m-At about
ten minutes to five o'clock this afternoon, our
citizens were wurued by the cry Of fire, which
! proceeded from the Pemberton Mills, about
four-ffths Of which had fallen a shnpelcss
mass, without the slightest warning to the
nearly eight hundred human beings who were
{ en- at work. The building was never coz
sidorcd staunoh ssit ought TO be.
L Was built about seven years ago, and then
Was thought q sham, indeed before the nG-
cbi1ery was put in, the walls spread TO such
an extent that some twenty-five tons Of iron
slate we're put in TO save IL from falling by IFS
own weight. From the best information that
eau be gathered, the building appeared TO
orumblo and fail from the eastern corner or
end. Il fell inward. The Fire Department
OF once repaired TO the spot, but there being
no fro, they at once set 20 work with q will
to remove the rubbish. Thoy very soon
reached some rooms, SO that the dead and
wounded we're taken out rs fast az they could
be reached.
Mr.. Chas. Bachelor helped rem. I'VE gone %
In various conditions, some still living. MIR
Branch, oversocr, has not been found. The
City Hall has been converted into q Temporal
ny Hospital for toe dead end wounded till re-
cogni2ei. Mr.. Palmer was deeply buried in
the ruins al tho time, and thinking there
was no prospect Of being extricated, cut his
throat to end his suiferinFs. Still he was tax
EN- out, and lived some time. One woman,
IN the part Of tho mill still standing, became
frightened and threw herself out Of the fifth
story door, breaking an arm aud inisriug her
self so that she cannot recover. The laboIing
force Of the mill is about nine hundred and
sixty, and il is supposed that about seven
hundred human beings were actually buried
ia the ruins. A woman just rescued, Gays
there are some twenty-five mare in the VEIN
icy of her yet alive.
About half past Diae l,e was discovered
This additional horror struck terror 20 the
hearts that had before been hopeful ofsaviag
more lives. Still the work of removal went
on Tho force pump and engines on the
ground were at once got o work, and have
been pouring torrents on, 80 that at ll.30
the flee docs not seem 10 gain, and hopes are
entertained that 1t will be stayed.
Those near tue breaking ont Of the Are we're
alfEoss on the point Of eNtriosting woman
not much hurt, bat tho flames drove them
back, and the woman, it is supposed persisted.
The Mayor has telegrSphed for the Lowell
dremen, who will arrive about one o'clock,
midnight.
Through the almost superhuman efforts
Of the iremen the Washington Mills are now
considered out Of danger,
OF the Duck Mill, the prospect is not so
good, Everything that can 10 done is being
done. Fire companies are present from all
tho noifhborinf towns.
Between forty and fifty physicians are in
attendance at the City Hall and other places
wherever the injured need their klnd ser
vices,
Pho ruins having burned up, it WlIl be
many days before a true knowledge Of the
number Of the killed and wounded can be ar
rived az.
Tho a7s which finally sacrificed the buried
human victims, caught, without doubt from a
Of burning dUid, which Was acciden-
tally dropped. One fireman dropped down
dead in the street.
The streets ore filed with a mass Of human
beings, every one eager TO do, and see, and
hear. Friends who, before the FIRE were
Alternating between hope and fear, are now
settled down In hopeless despsir.
- o'CLoCK.-The whole mass Of ruin Is
now ina sheet Of flames, Tho ssrolms and
means OF the nangled victims are heard DIS
tinotly, but no power can save them.
The Pemberton Mills are now O. black sm0k
Jog mass Of brisk, mortar end humanity,
promiscuously mingled. Probably not less
than two hundred boiugs persisted in the
flames. The Washington Mill WAS in great
yaopnr1v tina wind hlowing towarHa the BDcL