The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-29
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From the Norfolk Journal.

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just before day.
| From the Norfolk Journal. 4
| We have seldom seen so much excitement
produced in our community by any event
rs was evinced when the news came Of this
| calamity. All the afternoon of yesterday
crowds were collected around the bulletin.
| boards Of this office and of the Vtrgiaian
reading the heart-rending details.
From the Norfolk virg,nian.
TIE RICHMOND DISASTER.
We have no words in which to express
our lament over the dead, or TO give expires.
sion to our sympathy with their surviving
friends and families. This tragedy is even
darker and more appalling than that which
TOOK place when the Richmond Theatre was
burned, and, unlike that, which was local
lied in the sacrifice Of It's victims, it excites
, a special pang of bereavement or alarm il,
nearly every part Of the State. As far as
the melancholy list goes, we see that we
have lost many valuable citizens, and among
them our lamented friend DR.. Brock, the
special correspondent for this paper, who
was an accomplished gentleman and an or
nament to his profession.
From the Petersburg Index.
THE RICHMOND CALAMITY.
Virginia has been stricken by calamity
so sudden, so appalling, that human speech
fails to measure it. Richmond is once more
the scene Of tragedy which carries grief to
every section of the State, recalling the hor-
ror Of that dreadful night, nearly sixty years
ago, when the beauty, rank and talent of the
Capital We're swept away by all-devouring
fire. Now, as then, Death has struck down
some OF the noblest Of her sons-Aylett, the
brilliant Journalist; Howard, scholar and
iurist others, less known, but whose
names, rs we read them on the sad roll of
the dead, recall to us days when they gave
proof of devotion to their State OH many q
hard-fought field.
TO those who weep the dead we can only
give silent sympathy. We dare not intrude
upon the sanctity Of such sorrow. We SIM
ply remind them that we Go not forget
them.
From the Lynchburg Virginian.
THE APPALLING CALAMITY AT RICHMOND.
The hand Of misfortune has fallen heavily
again on our capital city of Richmond. We
haye no heart TO dwell upon it. No such
dreadful accident has occurred in Virginia
since the burning of the Richmond Theatre
in 1911, 1t is startling and terrible illus
tration Of tho uncertainty of human life
and OF NIL human plans and purposes,
Verify, we know not what day may bring
forth.
From tue Lynchburg News.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Our entire community was shocked and
Mortified on yesterday by the news of the
irightfn aecidsnt which occurred in Rich
mond.
No more terrible catastrophe has eyer
fallen upon the people OF Virginia the
that has ever taken place in our State was
the burning of the Richmond Theatre in
1911.
This awful calamity will carry sorrow to
Gyery portion of the Commonwealth. for
citizens OF every sgciian were involved i'll
the disaster. Some Of the pest men in the
State are among the killed.
70 The hundreds Of hercaycd and ago.
nizcd families througlout oar State we
would, as every feeling heart must do, ten
der our profollndest sympathes and condo
lence, and to all our people we would eN.
press the hope that such another frightlul
event may never more affiict our metropo-
lis