The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

standing alone remained. We must find a
light. John remembered that there were
matches on a little table near, and 81, feeling
with his feet he took few steps into the room
and found them, lighted one, and with its
Pickering light we looked about us. The par
lor where we had been was mostly DESTROYED
The bedroom was still standing, although torn
and separating into thousand pieces. The
floor was apparently good We entered Gnu
tiousy, took a shawl for me and coat for him,
and a package 1T candles to give us the light
necessary for finding our way out of this
destruction; We went out by the window
where we had stood on to the piazza, which
was also partially destroyed.
This piazza was on the second story with
flight OF stairs on each end leading to the
piazza below. We turned TO the left, 1t being
little nearer that way, but soon found our
way cut off All was in run and from that
ruin came voice calling to US in English,
Save me; am dying 1t was an American
girl, Miss Van Allen. who was there for treat
ment OF the rheumatism. | had to answer
back over that terrible gulf, we cannot reach
you She died We turned back, passing our
windows, then on to the other end of the
piazza. There also was ruin only portion Of
the stairs remaining standing, and that portion
ready to fall. But 1t WAS our only way out
we passed how, cannot tell Hanging on
the broken fragments and clinging to each
other we at last reached the floor below, where
we found after much difficulty, the door lead
ind to the road. Feeling that here we should
be safe, we hurried on, climbing over noun
taiDsof stones and arriving Mt last outside the
door, where the space was just large enough
for small carriage to tnrn around in. We
could go no farther The narrow little road
leading around the mountain side to a small
| opening called Calvary had been carried away,
with all the houses on the side of the noun
| tain higher up, down into the valley below. In
| the darkness, lighted only by the feeble light
Of the candle, we could see nothing but dark
| gulf filled with fallen houses trees and rocks,
| out OF which came cries that broke ones heart.
On the other side of this space where we we're
was a high wall twenty feet from the road,
filled all full of great openings. Behind us
was the angle of the hotel which remained
standing. On the fourth side the road had
opened wide, and to the bottom of this opening
no one had courage to look for it looked like
a great grave, ours perhaps. After little
| time five others found their way to this place.
| Half naked, wounded and suffering they came,
| but without murmuring, only too thankful for
| this comparative safety Cold and trembling
we huddled together embracing each other
| who were strangers only an hour before and
| silently praying We remained like this till
| nearly three o'clock, five long hours Then the
angle of the hotel took fire and our posi-
ton became again very dangerous" The
| writer then describes some OF the terrible and
| pitiful scenes through which they made their
way, driven by peril from the flames of the
| burning ruin across this living grave to place
where they waited till the morning dawned for
the light to guide them on their painful journey
out of this labyrinth Of death and utter desola-
ton to the sea and thence to Naples
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