Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-21
A Woman and Two Children SUMO
Gated to Death in u LimekIin.


| 10, says: Joho E. Cam IRON lives on farm
one mile from this village. He has a iimckiln
| quarter of mile from his house, near the
| main road. Yesterday he started lire 10 1t
and went away to his work 10 hay field. Two
! of his children, boy niue years old and girl
| aged five, were playing about the kiln. Over
| the mouth of the kiln is a windlass by which a
! large bucket is lowered to the bottom. Inc
oldest of the two children thought 1t would be
| nice to ride his little sister up and doWn IN the
bucket. She cambered In, aud he let ner
down into the Dit. The fire had by that time
got under good Roadway, and the stone was be-
coming heated and emittog poisonous gas.
The little girl screamed to come up, and her
brother tried to pull up the bucket, but could
not start if. After several attempts he started
on a run for home, where he told his mother
| and grandmother, who were alone in the house,
| the stu iion as above. The Two women ran to
| the kiln. Mrs Cameron saw her child lying on
the bottom. She had tatleu out OF the bucket,
being overpowercd by the gas. Thinking the
chiId might be restored if taken out at once,
Mrs. Cameron drew the bucket UP. She
placed her lttc boy iu it, and telling him to
place the tody of his little sister in it asqulckly
as possible, and get back into it himself, she
lowered him into the noxlcus pit. The little
fellow succeeded 10 placing the body IN the
bucket, aod. cluglng to the side OF 1t himself,
vas drawn few feet upward, when he sue
cumbed to the influence of he gas aud fell back
unconscious to the bottom.
Mrs. Cameron drew the body OF her little
girl 10 the top and hastily removed 1t from the
bucket and placed it on the ground. She then
gave the crank of the wibdlass to her mother.
in aw, lady Deary seventy years old, and
cold her to lower hcr quickly into the pit, 10 the
rescue of her other enid. She then got into
the bucket Her weight Was more than old
Mrs. Cameron could control, and the era ok
Slipped from her hands, ard wh!rllpg round
struck Der on the ,ad and Knocked her sense
less TO the ground. Her daughter n.law was
hurled violently TO the bottom of the klln, aud
no doubt rendered unconscious before the gas
d # c.cd her
The louisville stage came along about the
time Mrs. Car!eron vas preci plated in.o the
kiln. JOHN Kane, the driver, seeing the bleed.
ing body of the Old lady aud the apparently
IiicIe-s body Of the little GIRL stopped the stage
aud jumped out. He discovered the bodies of
the other two IL the kiln. Calling gentle
mao 10 the stage TO his aid, he went down lDto
the kiln by means Of the windlass rope, and
placed The Icdy Of MIS-. Cameron 10 the buck
It. 1t WAS draRn up, aud the bucket lowered.
Kane succeeded ia getting into the bucket with
the boys body, hut became UNCONSCIOUS soon
afterwards, snd Was taken from the tucket IN
that state. Ii was somc time before he was re-
stored.
Old Mrs. Cameron was brought to conscious
ness in short time, her Wounds not being ser-
ous. Her daug htcr-in law and the Two chill
dren we're dead. As soon as Kane recovered
sufficiently the three bodies Were placed 10 the
stage aud taken nome, and Mr.. Cameron SUM-
moned from bis work. Mrs. Cameron was
thirty five years old.
The prevailing protracted heat has had the
effect of producing frightIul and unparalleled
mortality among the children Of New York. Ia
three weeks DO less than 2, sc little ones, all
under FIVE years, and large proportion under
one year old, have persisted. The Board OF
Health has appointed, in addition to its present
medical corps. fifty physicians whose duty it is
to look alter the children of the poorer classes.
In oil the cities OF the country the mortality OF
the children has increased greatly since the
con- meneement of the heated term. Those
having control OF children should see that they
have fresh air, wholesome food, and light clo b.
ing, and that they be kept clean.