Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-06-04

TuRTHER PARTIcULARs-sCENEs AND INCL
DENTS.

FURTHER PARTICULARs-SCESEs AND INCL
DENTS.
We compile from the Springfield ReDub-
hcan of Saturday the following additional
particulars of the Ilolyoke disaster.
II the night scenes of the awful disaster
had been shocking and dreadful beyond
local parallel, the morning witnessed an
almost equally horrible phase of the calaml-
ty in the basement of the Park street school
house, which had been converted for the
time into a mOrgue. Here the dreadful.
sickening corpses lay wrapped in white
cotton cloth, and here were admitted those
seeking their dead. The brick floor was
Uttered at the one end with blocks of wood,
at the other were piles of coal, and between,
and on either side of the entrance. were the
rows of sheeted bodies-their beaten, burn
ed and biackened members prOtrudIng from
the coverings Here an arm eaten away to
the bone, next the black skull OF a woman
whose lower body was scarcely di>hgured,
and across there merely a heap OF black,
charred bones The st0utest nerves would
revolt at the spectacle, and what wonder
that strong men turned away shudderIng,
sick at the sight? There was every attitude
of agony, most commonly the arms being
thrown up, as if to guard the lace from the
destroying flame; again. the fingers and
arms would be Outstretehed, indicative oil
the struggles of that terrible death
The gates of the school grounds were open
ed to the immediate friends OF the dead,
in order that the bodies might, as tar
as possible, be identified, only three
or four, however, being admitted
at once. There were many touching
scenes and moving pictures as the work OF
Identification went on. Some OF the victims
were burned to crisp cinder-dOwn TO the
very bones about their faces, and then
ring, a shawl. some article OF apparel, the
peculiar formation of Il finger, even, would
recall them 10 living and seeking irlencs-
An old man of perhaps % years, one ol the
first admitted to the basement, alter 4 long
and unsuccessful searching among the
bodies after his lost daughter. went home
and soon returned with his feeble old Wlte,
whose anguish as she eagerly lifted the
cloth from each charred, revolving body, In
search OF some clew 10 the missing IOSeu
one. was pititul in the extreme. she was
about to abandon the search, Wnen she
espied a garter which she knew to belong 10
her daughter. and, by this slight eiew, the
body was identified. Another equally SIN
Uular cUluclQtlCt Wa luC -
a little daughter OF Joseph Briggs, oil
Cabot street. By her young sister, no IN
stantlv recognized her by the shoes she had
on. The head of the poor unfortunate was
ctarred beyond all recognition. and the
grief of the surviving sister was one Oi the
most painful features OF the morning In
deed she could only give vent to her terrible
anguish by low, rIteOus means. lhe Douy
of one woman was recognized by Il ring
which was taken from her hand, upon
which the fingers were nearly burned on,
while her head and upper portions oi her
body were burned to the bone. And the
body OF man, whose head was nearly
burned off. was principally identified by
charred postal card in his pocket. Joseph
Messier's body was recognized by the clothes.
the head being nearly burned from the BODY.
THE oRGANIsr AND HER LOVER
The fate of Amminie Menier and her lover
was strange event OF the fire. She was the
organist for the evening, in the absence oil
the regular one, and was cut on from
escape when the church burned. Her lover
escaped, but, finding that she was still
within. turced to rescue her, was overcome
by the flames and perished with her.