Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-15

West Division Police Station, about 5
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, intent upon
making an application Of lynch law to a
man who was alleged 10 have tried to set
fire to a house on Milwaukee avenue.
Three or four ropes were fiourished vigor-
ously in the crowd, and several speeches
were made by parties urging them to rescue
the inceDdiary from the hands Of the police.
But the latter were firm, and at the last &C
counts the man was still prisoner, IN the
cell. s E "a.
HORRORS OF THE CONFEDERATION -
SCENES AT-TBE MoRGUE: ~
Our reporters visited No. Ga Milwaukee,
avenue, where all dead bodies not identified
have been taken, last evening, and were
kindly helped to all possible information by
Coroner Stephens. They found forty corpses
in all, and the scene presented by them is
horrible in the fullest meaning. With one
or two exceptions, the deaths occurred from
burning-nOthing but skull, and black
ened mass remaining of some of them,
while a few were suffocated. The Large
proportion, however, are -disfigured,- and
their limbs are nearly burned from their
bodies. The scene of forty corpses, all but
two without a vestige of clothing, with the
exception of an occasional boot, was sick
ening beyond description, and one never to
be forgotten. .rfk $50 -,
: There were strong smsn- swho. lest their
lives in vain attempts to save loved ones;
delicate women, who were unable in the
confusion to escape the flames, or would
not leave their offspring; and frail children,
who went down in buildings in their help
lessness and persisted. 81
There isthe body there of woman that
was found in the bath-house at the foot OF
Eries street, and had every appearance of
dying natural death. On her was robe
sllch as Catholics usually envelop their
dead. She was over sixty years of age, and
much emaeiated.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. !
CHICAGO, Oct, 1.-THE sickening sensa-
ton of the day is the establishment of a
Morgue for the exhumed remains Of the
victims Of the mighty fire. To-this CHASTITY,
hideous and melancholy spectacle were adj /
mitted in little parties of four or five at a
time, those who had friends or relatives
missing, but no language can describe the
scenes of heart-rending agony which these
grim visits eliciteds : - -
A family of little children, led by an elder
sister, comes, and after the first sickening !
shock tries to distinguish the lost mother.
A frantic wife, attended by a friend, comes
in search of her unreturning husband.
Brothers seek sisters lost, and sisters their !
brothers gone; but who can tel in that un=s
distinguishable charnel what home the
living being made happy. All PERSONAL
identification is gene with the obliterating /
fire, and nothing is left but ashes. But /
perhaps the bitter disappointment at nOt,I
finding, or rather recognizing the lost one |
is worse than if there and then had ended |
the fearful search. Heart-bursting -sobs, |
hysterical ordinations and unutterable |
wailings rent the air as the disappointed sad |
ones turned away from the sickening scene. |
Another glance at the desolate waste |
which looks for all the world like the aban- /
doned encampment of a host, and the near
est exploring party is reached. There are |
only two or three workers and three or four |
people looking on. The workers armed |
with pick-ax and shovel are in what was the |
basement. The lookers-on are the. family, |
or part of it who Occdpiedthe house. Care |
fully the cinders, broken plaster and brick |
are removed, but it is slow process, and |
the burned and still smoldering remains of a |
bed is discovered. GAhi" painfully escapes |
the blenched lips of the only woman of the. |
party, who stands supported by "a 4
man. Something is said in "a
low conselatery tone. The workers !
now proceed, stiH more carefully, and re-
move everything around and upon the |
remnant of the bed. In few minutes
more little crisped form is found, the
mere blaekeAed trunk of child; the poor
woman utters piercing shrek, and is
borne fainting and inSensible for the time, |
from the spot. Other little parties of work
efs are visited but t hey have not got. far !
enough down for us to await the develop !
ment. /
All there is 8 party over yOnder who |
have found a body. 1t is alloy. of twelve |
or thirteen years, who hid himself in the !
corner Of the basement in the delusiVe hope
of escaping the fiery death that svertook.
him, yet left its brand only on his back and
spared the face for recognition. |