The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-21
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TERRIBLE FATE OF TWO CHILDREN AND
WOMAN IN PENNSYLVANIA.

TERRIBLE FATE OF TWO CHILDREN AND a
WOMAN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PorTsvILrE, PA, July 1S.--Jehn E.. Came
ron lives on a farm one mile from this village.
He has limekiln Il quarter OF mile from
his house, near the main road. Yesterday
he started fire in it and went away to his
work in q bayfield,. Two of his children,
a boy nine years old and girl aged i've,
were playing about the kiln. Over the
mouth OF the kiln is a windlass by which
large bucket is lowered to the bottom. The
oldest OF the two children thought 1t would
be nice to ride his little sister up and down
in the bucket. She clambered in, and ne
let her down into the pit. The fire had by
that time got under good Roadway, and the
stone was becoming heated and emitting
poisonous gas.
The little girl screamed to come up, and
her brother tried to pull up the bucket, but
could not start it. After several attempts he
started on a run for home, where he told
his mother and grandmother, who were
alone in the house, the situation as above.
The two women ran to the kiln. Mrs. Came
ron saw her child lying on the bottom. She
had fallen out OF the bucket, being over
powered by the gas. Thinking that the child
might be restored il taken out ut once, Mrs.
Cameron drew the bucket up. She placed
her little boy in it, and telling him to place
the BODY OF his little sister in it'as quickly
as possible and get back into it himself, she
lowered him into the noXious pit. The lit
tie fellow succeeded in placing the body IN
the bucket, and, clinging to the side OF 1t
himself, was drawn few feet upward. when
he succllmbed to the influence OF the gas
and fell back unconscious to the bottom.
Mrs. Cameron drew the body OF her little
girl to the top and hastily removed 1t from
the bucket and placed it on the ground. She
then gave the crank OF the windlass to her
mothcr-in-law, 4 lady nearly seventy years
old, and told her to lover her quickly into
| the pit, to the rescue Of her other child. She
then got into the bucket. Her weight was
! more than old Mrs. Cameron could control,
and the crank slipped from her hands, and
whirling round struck her on the head and
Knocked her senselcSs to the ground. Her
daughter-iu-law was hurried violently to the
bottom OF the kiln, and no doubt rendered
unconscious before the gas affected her.
The Pottsville stage came along about the
time Mrs. Cameron was prccipitated into
the kiln. John Kane, the driver. seeing the
bleeding body OF the old lady, and the ap-
parcntly lifelcss body OF the little girl, stop
ped the stage and jumped out. He disco
vercd the bodies of the other two IN the
! kiln. Calling gentleman IN the stage 10
his aid he went down into the kiln by means
OF the windlass rope, and placed the body
of Mrs. Cameron in the bucket. 1t was
drawn up, and the bucket lowered. Kane
succeeded in getting into the bucket with
the boys body, but became unconscious
soon afterwards, and was taken from the
bucket in that state. 1t was some time be-
| fore he was restored.
Old Mrs. Cameron was brought to con-
seriousness in a short time, hor wounds not
being serious. Her daughter-n-law and tho
two children were dead. AS soon as Kane
recovered sufficiently, the three bodies were
placed in the stage and taken home, ana Mr..
Cameron summoned from his work. Mrs.
Cameron was thirty-tiye years old. =