Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-01-27

fought his way in company with a work
man at the gas-works to the church, and
battered down side door and saw Miss
Larren; she at the same time recognized
him and called on him to save her. He
could not enter in consequence Of sheet
of fame between them. He reached his
cane to her which she grasped with both
hands. when he and his friend attempted to
drag her through the flames. but she was
SO surrounded and hemmed in with the,
dead and dying, that her strength was
not sufficient. They abandoned this
method and went in pursuit of some 9TH
or means to rescue her. and returned
again, and on presenting themselves with
the means of saving her at the door, the
police ordered them back, and not heed
ing the order, he (Demilow) was bayo-
ncted His friends wrested the gun from
the police, knocked him senseless to the
ground, and made a second attempt to
save the p1or girl. But the time lost in
dispute with the police was life lost to
her. This is only one of many similar
scenes.
Your brother Charles battered door
down on Gale Bandera, or Flagg street,
entered and found in small ante room
some thirty females and all living, but
like so many statues, perfectly unconscious.
He was compelled to take many of them
them into the street and saved them all.
Mr.. Meiggs and H. Keith fought their
way through the police and reached the
church at late hour and when the tow
err was falling all about them succeeded
in saving several. Mr.. M. saw woman
still under a crowd of others then dead.
She recognized him and called to him,
saying, for Gods sake, save me He
rushed through the fire to her and pushed
several of the dead from her, then at
tempted to lift her out from among the
dead, but they were so firmly wedged in
about her and on her, he had to abandon
that. He then procured lasso, fastened
that about her waist, and the united
strength of eight men could not extricate
her from her companions, and they had
to leave her amid such cries for help as
no Christian heart could endure, neither
can language describe.
The police had full charge of the front
of the church and in such fierce that the
foreigners could do nothing there. The
police rescued but a few. Axes and crow
bars were not to be had until late hour.
A single instance will suffice to show the
stupidity of the police. An officer of the
police set some half dozen of his men to
hew or batter down one of those large front
doors with their old broad swords. The
doors are made of two inch hard wood,
double thickness. and riveted through and
through with iron rivets. You can
judge the effect their old cutlasses made
on the doors better than / can describe
it.
The scene at the church the following
day was the most revolving, heart-distres-
sing, that ever was witnessed since the
world was created. There were the poor
unfortunate dead in all stages of con-
sumption, the greater portion of them ma
ked. But few could be recognized by
their surviving friends. The police order
ed on the poems, or laborers to remove
the dead. Those demons-worse than
devils damneq-commenced their work
with as much hilarity as you ever saw
school children enter on some pleasure
excursion. The dead were pulled about
and pulled apart as one would pull apart
tangled brushwood. You could see two
or more poems pulling on a limb of some
one buried under the others, until the
limb Was pulled from the body. Then
they would have peon rejoice and howl
of exultation, and commence at another.
The dead were actually separated with
crowbars and picks. Limbs. heads and
fragments we're shoveled into carts with
no more feeling than Irish laborers would
have in shovcling gravel into railway
car Hundreds of bodies, but partially