The Portland daily press., 1896-06-10
A HOTEL SERVANTS EXPERIENCE.
She Is Rescued After Nearly Forty-eight
Hours in the Ruins.

She Is Rescued After Nearly Forty-eight
Hours in the Ruins.
4 (From The ST. Louis Globe Democrat,
May 80)
The rescue of Mary Mock, domestic
at the Martell House, yesterday, was one
of the most thrilling and exciting scenes
of the day. Not loss than 5000 people
stood about the place, on the bridge, the
trestle. and along the tracks surrounding
the spot where the Martell House once
stood, and when it became noised about
that woman who had gone down with
the building was alive in the debris the
feeling was Intense.
The workmen heard groans about l D.
ih.' out Che noise came from a position
near the waters edge, where no one be-
lieVed that it was possible for any human
| being to survive. A floor slanted down
from the bank to the water, and under
this there were piles of timbers. ALI
were finally out through, and the groun
was reached. but the owner Of the voio @
was not found. 1t was apparent, however
that the victim was not far away, but
the timbers and boards DETECTED the
sound to such an extent that none of the
men could say. exactly from whence it
came.
A new point was fixed upon, and the
men set to work with renewed energy.
About p. m. their labors were crowned
with success, and they came across the
almost unreoognizable face of woman
The eyes were closed. the nose was
mashed, and the whole face presented
most pitiable. appearance. AT intervals
the woman groaned as If IN the last
agonies of death, but when taken into the
air she revived very rapidly. Along
toward evening she began to speak
coherently, and between sobs and screams
of pain she partially told the story of her
adventure.
She and another girl were standing in
the centre of the dining room when they
saw missiles flying through the air on the
east side of the building, and hastened
into the back part of the house. AS
they stepped into the hall way, which was
used in common by the guests and the
people of the house, the crash came. Miss
Nook saw tho west side go down into the
creek, the house being lifted from the
pillng, and she thinks the eastern part,
which was built years after the western
section was seemingly piled in on top of
but crawled up some distance, when the
sliding timbers pinioned her.
She was not SO beSiiy injured, she
thinks at first, but ~ the rolling of the
timbers caused by the waves in Cahokia
Greek she was battered about and aim ost
killed. She was in the place almost forty.
sight hours, and, according 10 her own
wnFdS Nv bA oho
power which she possessed. The clammy
hands Of two persons OH each side of her
would be placed upon her at short inter-
walls. Finally she became pinfoned to a
corpse The dead man or woman early in |
the night of Thursday was showed across |
AS she still had her senses, she said, it |
was the most terrible sensation that she |
ever experienced, and one which she |
would almost sacrifice her life to avoid, |
This body was not found with her, and |
it is believed that it f1oated of down the
stream.
AS the woman was taken from the
rubbish and placed upon the bank, more
dead than alive, and not knowing that
any one was about, as she was uncon-
sciOus, she uttered a sound which resem-
bled cry for water. Two or three men
ran to the station and procured some,
but she could not or luld not drink A
piece CT ice was forced between her teeth,
and in few minutes, to the sstonish-
ment of all, she regained consciousness.
Both legs are badly sprainad. her right
wrist and collar bone are broken, and she
Is terribly cut about the face and breast.
The doctors believe she will live
Miss Mock was considered very pretty
girl by those who knew her, and she was
surely favorite at the hotel, where
many persons have noticed her extreme
modesty and obliging disposition. She
had been at the 4orei many years.