Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-02

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Robertson was badly injured.
Thomas Lawler, a bar tender at tiie
Commercial hotel, says he owes nl'
life to his attempt to save his pa"s
daughter. He told his story today as
he lay on cot at the hospital Win
both legs broken.
II was upstairs in my nome o
Railroad street" he SAID, pay ING
with my eight months-old daus
Nv wife and little boy We're ooNH
stairs. without warning the room
caved in over my head ana theh WIN
The rising water it foated away III
stinctivelv | grabbed my oapF ana
whom found myself floating along
with the wreck of the house, l'eio
her above my head. ! caught holo VI
tha side of nv house and pushed the
hohy on il and held to ught. An
oro,,nd me was a sea of slabs. 1t was
oil over in three or four minutes, put
J, seemed years. The part of the
house 7 was clinging to was ranmed
,,itb terrific impact into the mis-
where scrambled ashore with both
t14gs broken. How l dragged mEseu
~ tho hospital with the baby l DOM
know, but ! did.
LAWYERS wife and boy were
drowned.
lrnn,oves of the Bayless Pulp ana
paner mill had as thrilling experiences
as any. There We're $50 hands at WORK
wren the food came. Fifty of them
we're Young women employed en- the
first floor 1t is thought that all but
five of these escaped. \ dozen We're
injured 49,,
NJ Devoreux, who was employed
in the grinding room, grasped the
shafting above him when he saw tii'
wall of the mill cave IN. The Whlrrlhs
countershaft caused him 10 lose MS
grip and he sank in the waters rush
| ing tnfltier him He was again tossed
| ny and caught iE the tangled ma
cbinery. whence he was rescued aleel
lcalling for two hours for help he was
taken to the hospital with both legs
broken.
| Mary Rlaitz. an emplcye in the
counting room told the reporters al
the hospital today how it feeis |"
have a leg amputated with an axe. /
was busy at my books, she sala'
when suddenly there lurched through
the wall one of the big pulp grinding
stones of the mill As l leaped aside
to avoid it, the ceiling caVed IN anu
the water followed and passed over
me. Rescuers found me later plnneo
beneath the grinding stone.
| ..'They tried to release me, but lalled'
1 The great stone was too big to move
| and I felt is il | should surely die
! there.
"'Get an axe and cut my leg off. ]
| told them. But no man would Noiun-
teer. cut it off, / pleaded. You car
stand it if | can.
" looked up saw Joe Venargs.
friend of mine. You do it, Joe, Ior
me- pleaded. / was in awful PAIN
and nothing could be worse torture
than what / was enduring. i can't
do that. Mary he said.
Il asked big man back of nm TO
do it. He picked up the axe. BY the
lantern light l saw the descending
blade glisten. | think he chopped IL
four or five times before they coule
pry me loose"
At the hospital DR.. Asheraft saldl
that the stump had been dressed sklir
fully and that the plucky girl would,
recover. .ol
| Joseph Mckinney, an employee of I
Rayless mill struggled to get over THE
board fence topped with barbed W, Alb
He had his little child by the hd str
Unable to get over it himself. Mel Dir
nov threw his child over the fenc tin
safety, and met death in the we lTu
score of survivors who saw thi loo
have pledged themselves to prif tao
the child. re lDu
AS late as today, two PERSONS, 7
rescued alive from the ruins ~. Ita
mill. One is an infant, a few 49, lpa
old, which was cooling and cryirr {, 7
nately when rescuers came - Inns
wrapped in a blanket. The -. lth,
IDENTIFY slipped from the arm "a Iva
one VINO was trying TO car
safety. r,i6ed
The child has not been s. 80
Close beside the dead bod ,,,. liza
girls a man also was rescue ,far+h.
| in a precarious condition. -
| Kinnicut, restaurant ktA' -,
ed when warned of the Z "
was drinking a glass of ,,.ge Is
"Oh, let the kid finis' uh
said Mrs. Kinnicut, to va
running in with the ala WI
A few moments later , f,;fa tW
swept away and the WI ' tr'
are among the missing, r4.asa
The young son of M -. "a Pc
was sitting on the de- " IT. of
Tiers house when tho -, Fl
ing down Their h -, fr
| ground and one of tie" -, -. ~ al
cd. His mother had'' 49,, s,,.a,,t al
the door when She me ,,,a.har
| into the waters. tiaH' -. r., Y
p aa,.,pn n =, ind pulled her out OF
', a. - I,iated with anger Ia
va a Wv - na ,r.the hope that she lie
anu l'f'i CT t.y, she turned back e
- 80 - struggle. to keep her 81
y. e ..e 49, ,.,,;raI her clothes We're
torn off and he "e'7
child was dro'P'
AUSTIN | 81