The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-21
sRCOND DISPATCH.

sEcoND DISPATCH
The fire was principally confined to the
Granite mill, which is total loss. The
was insured for 100000 The
fire Is still burning, but under control. The
hands went to work as usual, when shortly
afterwards fire burst forth with Lightning
quickness, cutting off the fire alarm aud
and all egress from the building, which
contained some seven hundred men, women
and children Many perishe in the flames;
others jumped from the upper windows,
and were killed instantly. The cries of
women and children were heartrending. 1t
is impossible to get the number of killed.
BosToN, Sept. 10.
In response to an offer to send aid TO
Fall River, by the superintendent of the
Fall River Railroad, the following dispatch
was received:
FALL RIVER, Sept. 49,
No help required. The fire is under
control. Probably eight or ten lives lost,
mostly by jumping from the fifth story.
THIRD DISPATCH.
FALL RIVER, Sept 10.
The granite mill No. was burned this
morning. Loss, $5,OOO,OOO Most all of
the operatives in the spooing room in the
fifth room were panic stricken, and jumped
from the windows or were suffecatcd.
About thirty persons were killed, and the
injured and dying number as many more.
FOURTH DISPATCH.
New York, Sept. 10.
A dispatch from Fall River, timed 1890
p. M, says eighteen charred bodies of
killed and number of wounded have been
recovered thus far. Part of the machinery
in the lower story will be saved in dam.
aged condition.
FIFTH DIspAToH-TwENTY-FIv BODIES RE.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
PROVIDENCE, Sept 10.
A Journals dispatch from Fall River
says some twenty-five blackened and
charred dead bodies thus far have been re-
covered from the ruins of the Granite
mill. Many of them are unrecognlzable
James Turner is among the killed. The
body of Ellen Jane Hunter is identified by
a fragment of her dress Her head wa!
burned off. The assurances in Providence
on Granite mill are as follows: Firemans'
$4,000: Manufacturers, $4,000; Rhode
Island, $4,000; State, $4,000; Black
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER.
BosToN, Sept. 10.
The Herald's dispatch says that abou
Z o'clock a. m. an alarm of fire was sound
ed, but from causes yet unexplained tn
location could not be properly understood
consequently the firemen did not reach tn
vicinity of the fire in the Granite mill III
til the flames had made fearful Roadway
Finding themselves unable to cope with til
flames a second alarm was struck and til
balance of the fire department brought
the spot but in the meantime til
Ito a md
far as can be learned under tn
present excitement, the fire originate
at the tower in the fourth story, and a
attempt was made to eXtinguish it wit
pals of water, but Intellectually. Durin
this endeavor the door leading to the spoo
room, which opens south on the towc
staircase, had been closed to keep the hel
back and prevent panic, but when tn
flames had gained such strength that it wa
| impossible to quench them the escape
the girls had been cut off. The frigh
ened, terrified creatures, with roarin
flames on the tower staircase, rushed in
body for the fire-escapes, but dense vo
umes of smoke poured into the room au
the fitting flames forced them TO the mort
end of the apartment, at which end, III
fortunately, there were no means {
escape. Many in the meantime had b.
come suflocated, and others preferrir
death by falling to the ground, sprar
recklessly from the windows and wei
picked u, mangled, bleeding, dead al
dying. The flames soon worked their wa
upwards, and at this writing there
scarcely possibility of saving stone {
the late beautiful structure.
The excitement in the city was terrible
every mil nearly, emptying its contents
swell the sympathizing crowd. All Il
medical men in the city were promptly {
hand. Mattresses, wagons, stretchers al
all the praphernalia of the hospital we
promptly furnished, and the dead, dyiI
and slffGing attended to. 1t is certa
that nearly thirty or forty lives, nearly {
girls, hate been lost. 1t is feared that Il
list of wounded will probably be as grei
There arr no means of reaching any act
ally defirite information, but the above
as close upon the facts as can be obtain
at presenl. The Granite mills were inco
porated il 1868, and mill No. had 1856
splndles md $500 looms and employ
about 425male and female operatives. r
directors are VIM. Mason, John Slade, L
mund Ch,se, J. S. Braylan and Ira
Smith.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
A later investigation seems to prove III
the origin of the fire was in the mule roo
having started in from an oil mule head
charge ola young lad named Young.
soon as the flames were discovered by I
young lad he shrieked out "fre!" and ma
his escape, and the spinners in the ro'
tried to check the spread of the fan
,, with boxes and sticks, which broke