The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-04

Many people were badly injured by jumping
from the gallery windows. Annie Hilbert and
a child years Of age escaped from the build
ing after their clothing had become ignited,
and many persons had their limbs broken at
tempting to escape.
Later Details OF the Calamity-Heartrend-
ing Scenes as Described by Eye-wit-
nesses.
Additional particulars of this terrible calam-
ity place the list of dead and fatally wounded
at ninety-three. Fifty others are more or less
injured. The hero Of the disaster war John
Lynch, brave fireman, who was the first TO
respond to the alarm. He described the scene
when he reached the burning church as appall.
ing. Wedged tight and immovable in the door
ways was dense mass of humanity, from six
TO eight feet in height, none of them being able
to stand upright from the terrible pressure OF
the crowd behind, while upon and over them
sheet Of flame rolled like wave, streaming far
out into the open air. Without moments
pause TO consider their danger, Lynch and
Chief Engineer Mullen rushed into the flames,
spur red OH by the piteous cries, "For
Gods sake, come and help US " and began
pulling out the bodies. moment later, and a
well-directed hydrsnt stream from the Mount
Holyoke hose struck the brave rescuers, and
undoubtedly saved them from being burned
alive. The first persons drawn out were burn
ing, but they were passed directly through the
stream of water, and the flames were eXtin-
guished. Some OF the poor creatures fell
fainting on the long flight OF wooden stains
leading down 10 the street, and few were able
to walk.
by this time the entire fire department had
arrived, and worked with such energy and will
that, when the fire was extinguished. the
charred wooden walls of the structure were
standing, and were pulled down by the hook
and-ladder men, in order that search for the
bodies might be made.
The greater number Of bodies were found on
the fatal stairway, burned, some of them, to a
crisp. The body of one of the women was
found in the seat which she had occupied, her
clothing entirely burned of. A fieshy woman
weighing about $50 pounds. was dragged
screaming from tie mass. She was carried a
short distance from the church and placed on
the grass, while her flesh actually peeled off
her back, and in moment she fell over dead.
The scenes in the school house basement
where the bodies of the dead were carried
were heartrending in the extreme. In some in
stances the features were distorted, a. though
extreme agony had been suffered before death
but many looked AZ calm as though smothered
All were blackened with smoke some were
burned beyond Il possibility OF Identification,
nothing remaining but the trunk.
Louis Desjerdin. 81 years old. whose wife and
daughter were both burned to death, became
insane to-day from grief. and cried continually
III agOnlZlng tones: 20 my Julie nv Julie :"
Some were taken ont alive who were under
others who were dead, and owed to this fact
their own salvation.
The fate of Amminie Menaer and her lover
was a touching event OF the fire. She was or
ganist for the evening in the absence of the
regular one, and was cut off from escape when
the church was burned. Her lover escaped.
but, finding that she WIS still within. turned TO
rescue her was overcome with the flames, and
persisted with her.
The latest revised figures concerning tine
losses by the disaster, give: Dead. IL: fatally
burned, %; otherwise burned and wounded,
q. OF the II dead, SO are males, and l6 fe-
males