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

extremities were scarcely touched by the
flames.
Soon after the alarm had been given a
company of regulars arrived, and with
fixed bayonets, was stationed around the
building, not OILY empeding access to it,
but driving back those who implored to
be allowed to continue their exertions. A
Mr.. James Dimalo,l, upon being called by
name by one of the sufferers, insisted
upon entering the church, and received a
bayonet wound for his pertinacy.
1t is announced that but seven bodies
nave been recognized out of more than
1000 victims Seven dwellings have
been closed and sealed by the authorities
mot one soul having returned of either
Of the families living therein.
The officiating priests, although as
heavily inoumbered as the women with
clothing, succeeded in escaping, without
a single exception, and the same paper
which published to-day a list of over 2000
victims whose names are known, give also
q list of church ornaments and plate res
cued, valued at thousands Of dollars
When the fire broke out and people were
escaping by the 'sacristry. they blocked
up this door, to devote themselves the
more undisturbedly to saving their gim-
cracks. The list of things saved makes
ones blood run cold What the priests
saved, what they have put away in cigar
shops and the houses in front, are a great
image some wooden saints, sacred sophia
or two, some books, chalices, silver can
dlesticks, and great deal of sacred mat
ting and carpet. After saving their trash,
these specimens of the good shepards that
give their life for their sheep, flew away
in company with the owls and bats that
infested the ancient walls, except that one
priest favored the agonizing victims with
his absolution, and Ugarte requested them
to die happy because, they went direct
to Mary" They then forsook the scene,
and in that awful night, when fainting
women and desperate men strewed the
streets, and whiting forms that few
hours ago were graceful and beautiful
maidens, moaned and died in chemists
shops, not priest was to be seen to
whisper a word of Chrst's comfort to the
dying ear, or hold the precious cruciix
before the glazing eye. There was great
popular Indignation against the priests
and a demand for the entire demolition
of the church had been sanctioned by the
authorities, although the priests remon-
strated and threatened
Although many heroic men performed
prodigies of daring and strength in tear
ing soon from the death grasp of the
phalanx of bodies that choked the door,
in some cases tearing off their arms with
out being able to extricate them, the num-
Der saved by this means falls short of ff-
ty More than five hundred persons of
our highest society have persisted, the
greater part young girls of fifteen to twen-
ty years of age One mother has perish
ed with her five daughters Two thirds
of the victims were servants, and there
are many houses in which not one has es-
capped Several honses have been noted
by the police as empty because all their
inhabitants have persisted"
WHY THE VICTIMS WERE NOT sAvED-BRU-
tai SCENES ON REMOVING THE DEAD.
The Providence Journal publishes let
ter received by Mr.. W. A. Pearce of Prov
idence, from his father, resident in San
tiago Chill, who witnessed the recent ap-
palling catastrophe by which more than
two thousand human beings we're burnt
to death. 1t appears that the failure to
rescue the unfortunate victims was owing
to the idiotic police system of the Chilli
ans. The writer says
IL hear you asking, why were those
sufferers not rescued? Yes. why were
they not rescued =? My heart sickens
within me at the question. Those deter
mined, stupid ignoramuses of policemen
Fifty foreigners, had they been allowed to
work, and to work in their own way,
could and would have rescued nearly or
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