The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-21
FIRE. At. FALL RIVER, MASS.
TTTTTDTT TTTs.s &
Heavy Loss Of Life and Prop
erty.
Heartrending Scenes--Wo-
men and Children the
Victims.

ful loss of life.
NEW YORK, September ia dis
patch from Fall River, timed 1890 q. m,
saws that the fire is principally confined
TO the Granite mill, which is total loss.
The property is insured for 100000. The
fire is still burning but is under control.
The hands went to work as usual, when
shortly after the fire broke forth with
lightning quickness cutting off the fire
alarm and all egress from the building,
! which contained some 700 men, women
and children. Many perished in the
flames, and others jnmped from the up
per windows and were killed instantly.
The cries of women and children are
heart rending. 1t is impossible to get
! the number of killed.
Fire Under Control.
Boston, September ia special dis
patch to the Trareler from Fall River,
! dated at 7:4O this morning, SAYS: "At
seven o'clock this morning fire broke
out in Granite Mill No. |, in this city, and
spread with great rspidity. The opera
tiyes had Just commenced work, and there
was d great panic among them. Many
persons escaped by jumping from VIM
! dows. and Others were killed or injured
bv attempting to escape in this manner.
! Others were burned in the building, be-
ing unable to escape by any means.
MANY lives were lost by attempting to
J iumr from the roofs of the burning
! houses. The loss is already estimated at
| from S75,UONto 100000 but the excite
ment is 50 intense that it is almo>t i'm
possible to obtain any information at this
! writing.
BosToS, September lo.-The agent of
the Colony Railroad at Fall River sends
the following dispatch in response to an
offer to send aid: mo help required; fire
under control. Probably eight or ten
lives lost, mostly by jumping from the
fifth story windows
FALL RIVER, September l9.-The loss
! by the burning Of Granite mill is $500
/ 900. Most all Of the operatives i'll tn"
spooling room in the fifth story were
panic stricken, and jumped from the
window or were sufocated. About 80
! persons were killed, and the injured and
! diving number as many more.
| 4 dispatch received from Fall River
| at 1890 =. NJ, says that lS charrcd bod
! les of killed, and anumber of wounded
| have been recovered. Part of the ma
! chincrv in the lower story was saved,
but in a damaged condition.
| Providence. September l9.-Thc
( journal has dispatch from Fall River
saving that some twenty-five blakcned,
charrcd, dead bodies had thus far been
recuvcred many Of them not rceogniza-
! Bile. Jas. Turner is among the killed.
| The body of Ellen Jane Hunter was
! identified by fragments OF her dress.
The head was burned off.
The insurance in Providence on the
! Granite Mil are "a follows: FirelhenS,
/ S5O.OoO; Manufacturers, $4,000; Rhode
: Island. $4,000; State, $4,000; Black
/ stone, $4,000.
Heart Rending Results.
BOsToN, September l9.-The Herald
has the following special dispatch from
/ Fall River: About I o'clock A. NJ. m
alarm of fire was sounded, but the loca-
( ton could not be properly understood,
consequently the firemcn did not reach
Granite Mill No. on 18th and Bedford
streets. until the flames had made fearful
! hcadway Finding themselves unable to
cope with the flames, II second alarm
was struck, and the remainder of the de-
| partment braught 10 the spot. Mean
time the results had become heart rend-
ing in the extreme.
! As far AS can be learned under the
! present excitement and turmoil the fire
originated at the tower in. the fourth
story, and an attempt was made to e1tin-
guishit with pals of water, but inetfectu-
ally. During this endesvor the door
leading to the spool room, which opens
on the tower stair case had to be closed to
keep help back and prevent panic, but
when the flames had gained snch strength
that it was found impossible to quiet
them. the escape Of the girls had been
cut off The frightened and terrified
creatures, with the roaring flames on the
lower staircase, rushed in a body for the
fire escape, but the dense volumes OF
smoke that poured into the room and the
biting flames. forced them to the north
east end of the apartment, at which end,
unfortunately, there were no means of
escape. Many, in the meantime, had
been sutfocated, and the others, preferriRg
death BY falling to the ground, sprang
recklesslv from the windows, and were
picked up mangled, bleeding, dead and
diving. The excitement was terrible, ey-
cry mill nearly emptying its contents TO
swell the sympathisng crowd. All the
medical a.. men III the city were
promptly on hand Mattresses, wagons,
strctchers, and all the parspher-
naiia of a hospital were promptly
furnished, and the dead and dying and
suffering attended to. 1t is certain that
nearly thirty or forty lives, nearly all
tgirls, have been lost; while the list of
the wounded is probably as great.
Granite Mills were incorporated in
1868. and Min No had thirty-sir hun
dred and forty-eight spindles, and eight
thousand four hundred looms, and en-
ploved about four hundred and twenty
five male and female operatives. The
directors are VIM. Mason B. p. Slade,
Edmund Chase J. :. Brayton and j. NJ.
Smith.
Later investigation.
BosTON, September l9.-Later in1 eS'
LEGATIONS seem to prove that the fire orig.
mated in the mule rooms, having started
from unoiled mule heads in charge of a
boy named Samuel Young. AS soon As
the flames were discovered by the lad, be
shrieked out fire and escaped, the spin
ners in the room tried TO check the
: spread of the flames with boxes and
sticks, which broke all the threads at
tached to the machine. When it was a,
last found necessary to give the alarm
the flames had gathered such strength
that they were darting from the lower
windows. The upper story, which Wa:
at the time used as spool room, was occu
pied by 60 persons, and the first
intimation that they received Of the
Inn1rnr NOS O nnnsa cloud of lhlindin c