The New York herald., 1874-10-04
THE GRANITE MILL FIRE.

ve-aict or the Coroner's Jury-Ecc.siess
Sacrifice OF LIfe--IneGicient Fire APP
parutus-siisernb Arrangements ia
the nili-l General Censure on DIi.i
Architecture.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Get. 3, 1874.
The Coroncrs verdict on the Granite Mn disas-
ter was rendered this afternoon, at three z. NJ.
1t is as ioows:-
Ws the having heep summoned a Jurors
Coroner ana Tor The ooun Of Bristoi did assemble
on me 2l,t dy q september 1874 10 act on TIE dead
p. ser an on me mCn OF e Ss e 81 Sod %
James Turner then yiaa AZ hi. nome in sad FAN
m c all proc sd e make examination 5nto ne can'e
nni "a cpnned by oaru .emt rom day 10 SI
Tie number oi dead and wonnde was con side t e,
ana tor some days hereaiter HE death rate ased,
those living likely 10 rreSv,r 80
called, aaa their testimony yolamnou, and sall.
pans IN It's immediate vicinity. but sending lhrill OF
s Ga, ts ay stow says s st S u"
the nlnes' me testimony taken naving been ruiiy
press in gcnern We d. S ce% @ il ~ p 'e ae
capituate here he general outline. o the evidence In
appear many wtness.s giving merely accumulated tes
it was IN the evidence that the first alarm fire on
corner Sixth anG teSsan sreets the re being hrst
discovered n the mule room cn The fourth story
From the time the alarm srick All the Fire Depart,
as esad be eis aspe rom mere lie as eo6 OF :" aar
caused by the striking OF tour different boxes at
was in eydsacc that he HOOKS an ladders
emergency OF this KIND and poorly handed on Ills occa.
SON ana after deiioerate eAantnat on We now saya
concerning ne other brancnes o. ,he tirc epartnent
used in giving The alarm 10 persons nj the
story naa sGch alarm been gysn ana the care not
caied taEen ihe hyes OF al persons N that
Gers | Was ouI t one sscops ,Iercro"Vis ,l"'"s ins
I Me a .tarsnd a o0 we .hSua abe be rens N duty
tat the fire bong discovered IN the mule the
wclI at ,hose in the nth story to whom there eau be
no doubt the alarm was general and ample did not
atyesm tie sixth story TO Zee from thelr dcry aul
come panic irst alarm IRE thai reached
them hcy mish have lie led all the women ana children
in regard 10 the MEANS ans e used by ssS the to es
- con cor ,dsr e means n n,sa IL shs eoneeon and asn
eseue IN n aons neas 81 escape a N eases M IN e ne
ances for eXtinsuishing rres in AL The stories,
sch rs tank n pumps and. ana pipes ana horzoaiai
MN apparently ready u.e OF The morning o. the IRE,
hose and ppSs were useless In he iour sopy at lbs
tine. tme. Ihe eonstrnation Of !he mill q which much ha,
telieve II 70 have been Tue IN q The corporo,ion
me y ihe past lurnis !he escapc hep
aa ha aa @ m heus I'D rd ps 4S Stea on s p
ieet o! mils architecture; IN thus particular ltwas
proved concusncy that there were
AMPLE MEANS
the attic lad been the loss of life woull
have thccu avoided, and suggest, as an alli.
1lon"i mems ~ safety ana escape, thai in o rc il
.auiit Lc arranged that aiar struck in
shuuA reach all others the mill, ana here the
evidence. 10 say that II clearly ndubitabiy up
pear, thai ~ the means Of escape, BY doors from
ccHt - smoke aud aame, taere being
locks OF bots on any door communicative
tower that s always open during she The he lp
i employed and we now say thar the approximate
the death OF said james Turner and twenty
two others whose presence there evidence the
morning in que Stion calsed By the burning the
mil they either being destroyed by the ire inside
Killed BY leapng ~ The grGuni the m and
closing the preceding statement with all the IN lis
hnct reality. tv t tile lesson not pass unheeded,
human lite Is precious bna in all mean, that tend
either particularly generally, precious
boon 10 the poorest morta has the sanction all man
KIND and AZ eX0nple N ltitl WHO died tor all -.
Commonwealth fIssa Lpg. Jrbtoi rDhlft. ss-At an
inqui-tion TAX en- city cf Fall tver the county
o brsto, the 2st daY ., -epemhcr in the year OF
the view o the body OF James Turner, there ,ying
deaf by the oahs OF the Jurors names are here
Of said Commonwealth when, NOW and by WHAT
means the sad James Turner came 10 hls dea th
do on tlicir oaths say tney do tnd that
ing OF the 18Th day OF scpemer. \. u. 1874. ny
from the SIKH storS OF Granite Mill No. in Fah .tver
the ground, said mi heinz then ure and also
toQether with the fire ,hside The mil consuming
sufoca Inc Them.
nqnisition have hereuno set their hands and
ANDREW W. WHITE Coroner
}. B. FRENCH, Foreman.
CHESTER W. GREEN.
CHARLES ALMY.
DANIEL HILlN ALL.