The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-21
BURNING OF A MILL.
Operatives Burned TO Death or Killed
by Leaplng from windows.
Forty Young Girls KiIled
TERRIBLE SCENES ENACTED.

FALL RIVER, MASS Sept. 10,-Granit
Mill No. /, in this place, burned thi
morning Just after The operatives begar
work. 1t Is said there was fearful los
Of lie.
NEW YoRK, Sept. 10,-A dispatch from
Fall River, dated 1895 A. M, says: Tn,
fire is principally confined TO Granite Mil
No. /, which Is a total loss The prop,
erty Is insured for 100000. The fire il
still burning, but is under control. Thl
hands went to work as usual, when short
ly afterwards the fire burst forth will
lightning quickness, cutting oil the firC
alarm and all egress from tho building
which contained some 700 men, womeI
and children. Many perished In thC
flames, aud others jumped from the upper
windows and were killed instantly. Tho
cries Of the women and children wcrC
heart.rending. 1t is impossible to get the
number Of the killed.
BosToN, Sept. ia special dispatch
to the Traveller from Fall River, dated
7:45 A. N says: AT o'clock this morn
ing fire broke out in Granite Mill No. /
in this city, and spread with great
rspidity.
The operatives had just commenced
work, and there was a great panic amongst
them. Many persons escaped by jump
ing from windows, others were killed OF
injured IN their attempt 10 escape in this
manner; others were burned in the build
ing, being unable u escape by any means
Many lives were lost by attempting &c
jump from the roofs Of the burning houses
The loss Of lives is already estimated al
from 70 to 100, but the. excitement Is &C
intense that 1t IS almost impossible to OBJ
tain any information at this writing.
A MTLDER sTATEMsNT.
BOSTON, Sept. 10.-The agent of the
Old Colony Railroad at Fall RIVER, sends
the following dispatch in response to al
offer to send aid: mo help required
fire under control; probably eight or ten
lives lost, mostly by jumping from the
fifth story"
LATRR FROM THE FALL RIVER DISASTER
FALL RIVER, MASS, Sept. 10.-The
loss by the burning Of the Granite Mill
No. /, is $500OO0. Ali the operatives ir
the fifth story were panic stricken, anG
jumped from the windows or were sufI0
Gated.
About thirty persons wero killed ant
injured and the dying number as many
more.
A dispatch from Fall River dated 12:3(
=. NJ, says: Eighteen Charred bodies o
the killed and o number Of wounded havC
been recovered thus lar. Part Of the ma
Chinery in the lower stories will be savet
in damaged condition.
TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED.
PROVIDENCE, R. l, Sept. 18th,
Journal has dispatch from Fall Rive
saying some twenty-five blackened, char.
red dead bodies have thus far been re-
covered from the ruins Of Granate Mills
many Of them unacceptable.
LATER.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 1O.-James Turne
is among the killed. The body Of Ellel
Jane Hunter was Unidentified by fragment
of her dress. The head was burned of
Insurance in Providence on the Grant,
Mill Is as follows. Fircmens, $5O,OOO
Manufacturers, $4,000; Rhode Island
$4,000; $d0 State, $4,000; Blackstone
BOsToN, Sept. 1J.-The Herald has th
following special dispatch from Fal
River:
About Z o'clock A. M, the alarm Of fir
was sounded, but the locality could not b
properly understood, consequently tn
tiremen did not reach the Granite Mil
No. on Twelfth and Bedford streets
until the flames had made fearful head
way. Finding themselves unable to cop
with the flames, u second alarm wa
struck, and the remainder of the depart
ment brought to the spot Meantime tn
results had been heartrendiDg in the ex
treme.
AS far as can be learned under III
present excitement and turmoil, the fir
originated at tower in the fourth story
and the attempt was made to eXtinguis
it with pals OF water, but Intellectually
During this endeavor a door leading !
the spoolroom, which opens south on III
lower staircase, had 10 be closed TO kee
tho girls back and prevent panic; bu
when the flames had gained such strengt
that 1t was found impossible to quencI
them the escape Of the girls had been Gu
OIL.
The frightened and terrified creatures
with the roaring flames on the lowe
stair-Cas rushed in a body for the fir
escape, but tho dense volumes Of smok
that poured into the room and the bitin
flames, forced them 10 the northeast en-
OF the apartment, at which end unfortu
natoly there were no means Of escape
Many In the meantime had become sui
focatcd, and others prelering death b
falling 10 tho ground sprang recklessl
from the windows, and were picked u
mangled, bleeding and dying,
The excitement was terrible; every mi
nearly emptying its contents to swell th
sYmpathizipg crowd. All medical me
in the city were promptly on hand. Ma
tresses, wagons, stretchers, and all th
paraphernalia ofG hospital were promp
ly furnished, aud the dead, and dyinl
and suffering attended to. II Is certai
that nearly thirty or forty lives, nearly q
girls, have been lost while the list {
wounded Is probably as great.
The Granite Mills were incorporated
1868, and mill No. had 38,GiS spindle
and s,4O0 looms, and employed about 4G
male and female operatives. The Direc
ors are VIM. Mason, ]. p. Slade, Edwar
Chase, j. 8. Brayton and Ira NJ. SmitI
STILL LATRR,-InvestIga!ion seems
prove that the fire originated in the mu
room, having started in from unused mu
heads, in charge OF a boy named Samu
Young.
As soon as the flames were discoyere
BY the lad he shrieked out fire and mad
his escape. The spinners In the rool
tried 10 check the flames with boxes an
sticks, which broke all the threads a
!, tached 10 the machines.
} Then efforts were made TO subdue Il
fire, but Intellectually, and when 1t was
last found necessary 10 sound an alaru
the flames had gathered such strengl