East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-01-19

early part OF the evening, which melted
the hearts Of all who witnessed it. A
little boy, whose only friend on earth was
his mother, and that mother employed in
the mill, wandered among the crowd,
sobing as if his little heart would break,
and begging the bystauders to save. his
mother The prayers Of the little fellow
were answered. his mother was saved,
and, clasping her son in her arms, his Joy
lkaew 40 bOands---one extreme succeeding
another.
!. "a boy at work in one of the upper
rooms, hearing the crash, had the pres
encc of mind TO jump into waste box,
which, with its occupant, was buried sew
eral feet beneath the ruins. When the
rcscuers raised the pile Of rubbish from
1.-THE box, the young hero spraug from his
narrow prison, and walked away as coolly
as if nothing had happened.
DR.. 5. A. Lord, OF South Danvers, was
called to attend two young wemen who
were in the third story of the mill. In
J falling, one of them, Mary Wech, had
two fingers caught in the machinery -
4 In an agony of despair she literally tore
them of, and crawled out through an
opening in the ruins, tearing her clothes
completely from her body Her hip was
badly injured. Her companion, who es-
capped through the opening, was dread
fully bruised and scratched.
While the work OF humanity was pro-
crossing, Che alarm Of fire was sounded.
The flames were soon visible. 4 panic
seized those within the jaws Of death as
it were, and those without. Up TO this
point the hope Of saving large numbers
of the unfortunate victims had been en-
couragng 1t was now seen that no
hope was left The scene now was heart
sickcnng according to every description.
Conscious Of che torturing death which
awaited the unfortunates whose suilerings
had not been ended by death, the by
ISLANDERS were unable to afford them any
relief. The groaus of the sufferers caused
ndescrbable anguish in the hearts of all
around, end TO them were added the
frantic appeals of some who knew they
were gazing on the funeral pyre of rela-
tives and friends, to whom no succor was
possible.
The women Of Lawrence, heroines in
every sphere during the fearful scenes Of
the hour, won laurels in the Fire De-
, partment also. When, after hours of
extreme exertion, the fremen, worn down
and quite exhausted, called for help, a
bevy of ladies' who were standing on the
, sidewalk in Canal street flew over to the
, engines, and, "manning" the brakes,
worked the machine amid the cheers OF
the iiremen.
|, The City Hall was filed with men and
: women, relatives and friends, looking for
the dead The cries Of some, the deer
!, MORNINGS of others, were affecting in
. the extreme. At every turn the ear was
! greeted by-somc agonized mourner One
/, frantic mother rushed past the officers il
!, charge of the door, and, recognizing tho
I dead and mangled body of child in the
= midst of the mass, claspcd it, called it by
q cndearing names, and wept only as q
: mother can weep. 1t was touching
scene indeed All day were the living
, hunting for the dead. Alas there were
+. some whom none Of the living could
! rccognize--poor human beings, so mar
red and blackened and dcformed as t
! resemble little but mass of flesh AM
bone, or a heap of rubbish.
An ante-room leading from t hal
! was used as a depository for the dca,
bodies, which were brought from tn
- scene of the calamity as soon as discov
- cred. During the forenoon, the 400
- was literally covered with corpses Of tn
- young, the midde-aged, and few pas
!, the latter period. 1t was a most shock
- ing spectacle. Some Of the bodies wer
: burned to blactness, but little flesh re
!, naming, and entirely beyond recognition
\ Some were bent, with hands conclcd
J. indicative of the horrible agony of thei
- death. Some were frightfuly mutilated
:, with heads crushed in, the charred brain
= being exposed TO view. The limbs O
:. others were gone-burnedo off on the case
! and torn off in others. Thus was tn
. !" floor paved with human corpses, ghastl,
~ repulsive, horrible to look upon. 1t tol
y, more cmphatically than all else the fright
=, =, full calamity.
-, -, One coffin contained body on whic
:! the fire had committed dreadful ravagei
!" The legs were burned nearly Oft. tn
=, breast was burned in large cavity reacl
10 10 ing to the intestnes which seemed burnc
!" out. The head was entirely destroye
~ and the shoulder-bonc protruded throug
:. the flesh.
-, In the centre of the room was ma
- of human remains in one solid lump.
re, EI Gov. Banks's message to Il
M Massachusetts, Legislature is characte
ad istic of the reasoning and shiftless polit
on cal character of the man. In view Of Il
as present national dangers, he sees nothir
er to be alarmed at Massachusetts, will pr
ad vent dissolution! Massachusetts, W
X do this, and do that Bunker Hill is
III Massachusettsl and yet, in Massachqset
f stands the blackenod walls of Fema
mt Seminary, burned by mob, from reli
'as ious prejudice 1t was a Massachusetts, lie
Ter islat ure that appointed Know.NothiI
nd Com mittee to ransacS Catholic Boar
no ing School, in the belief that the PoI
nd had wariko weapons secreted there.
he was in Boston, that an officer of the la
rst was killed in the discharge of his dut
Ter Massachusetts, is not the State it was
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