The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-10


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II sas about 4 quarter % slt o'cloch,
The IRE wss II N height Vast hiiiowsof
fame were sufFlng through portions of
buiiilnF. weeping everything ran
ldlY Into q mass n red ruin. II was evf.
Dent " All that the walisc could moi long n.
The force ~ that fiery hurricane, and
hat 4 grand crash was Al hand. Htlii the
men were seen, through the red lighted
Windows, working bravely in the effortto
ave property, Orders bad been given
nmo time before Tor people b rush in and
AIRY on goods, and the orders had been
But now II was seen that danger
vas too near, and that In a few moments
he lives OF al who had gone within the
iuilting had been sacrificed. The apec.
at0fs became wild with terror and excite
One Assistant Engineer, seeing
hat the heat was intense, called frantlcat.
y tOthe men 10 come ont. Policeman
jrown rushed into the building, at the i'm.
nlnent fisk of his own life, and loudly
allied TO them 10 make their own escape
lie returned, and barely got from the
Ioor into the street, when the crash came.
t was the side wall between Thstcher's
nd Far wells ~building-t25 feet between
he two stores, It fell with one prolonged
nd dcaiening crash, and the men went
with 1t to their fiery graves.
A wall went up 'front.' the crowd, strange,
A'ebAN tAgt VI hhbt buhb hUDkt OI
and dismay. A moment before,
nd the men and boys, fifteen or twenty
| them-some said thirty-had been seen
n each floor, with boxes and bundles on
shoulders. In an instant they dis.
ppeared, crushed beneath the ponderous
rails, and suflocated in the flames. Hor.
lble to hear and see. The wall went
lean through to the very basement. Not
soul escaped Of all who had been within,
The terrible catastrophe seemed for a
inc to deprive people Of their reason.
.hrieks OF women were heard from balco.
les where they were standing to look
pom the dreadful scene. Men clutched
ne another in a sort of wild delirium. !
everal persons, horror stricken al the
pectacle, were completely overcome, and {
wooned away. The rumors which cir. !
llated as to the number of men who had I
Illen beneath the walls gave them all '
way from fifteen to fifty men. 1t was
npossible to tell how many were there.
lanya home will be in a state of dread. !
u anxiety until the list is filled, and I
lany a hearth will be desolate when the 8
ames are made known.-M Chicago Tribune, t
ept. 5.