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Gordon (search for this): article 4
why were not these sufferers rescued. Yes, why were they not rescued? My heart sickens within me at the question. Those determined stupid ignoramuses of policemen! --Fifty foreigners, had they been allowed to work, and to work in their own way, could and would have rescued nearly or quite the whole mass. But no, as always the case here on an alarm of fire, the police place a sentry on every avenue leading to the fire. They have, as you know, no fire engines except some two or three old Gordon pumps. I fought my way past the police one entire square, by wresting guns and sabres from their hands, knocking them out of my way, and being knocked in return, until I was overpowered by numbers and compelled to retreat, and all within hearing of the most heart-rending lamentation that ever sounded on human ear. And nearly every foreigner fared similar to myself — was kept back. Mr. Demilow, of the gas works, received a bayonet wound at the fire while in the act of rescuing a young
W. A. Pearce (search for this): article 4
The great disaster in Chill — Incidents of the catastrophe. The Providence Journal publishes a letter received by Mr. W. A. Pearce, of Providence, from his father, resident in Santiago, who witnessed the recent appalling catastrophe by which more than 2,000 human beings were burnt to death. It appears that the failure to rescue the unfortunate victims was owing to the idiotic police system of the Chileans. The writer says: I hear you asking why were not these sufferers rescued. Yes, why were they not rescued? My heart sickens within me at the question. Those determined stupid ignoramuses of policemen! --Fifty foreigners, had they been allowed to work, and to work in their own way, could and would have rescued nearly or quite the whole mass. But no, as always the case here on an alarm of fire, the police place a sentry on every avenue leading to the fire. They have, as you know, no fire engines except some two or three old Gordon pumps. I fought my way past the
Larren (search for this): article 4
mentation that ever sounded on human ear. And nearly every foreigner fared similar to myself — was kept back. Mr. Demilow, of the gas works, received a bayonet wound at the fire while in the act of rescuing a young lady whom he recognized — a Miss Larren. He had fought his way, in company with one of the workmen at the gas works, to the church, and battered down a side or private door, and saw Miss Larren: she at the same time recognizing him, and called on him to save her. He could not Miss Larren: she at the same time recognizing him, and called on him to save her. He could not enter in consequence of a sheet of flame between them. He reached his cant to her, which she grasped with both hands, when he and his friend attempted to drag her through the flames; but she was so surrounded and hummed in with the dead and dying, that her strength was not sufficient. They abandoned this method and went in pursuit of some other means to rescue her, and returned again — and on presenting themselves with the means of saving her at the door, the police ordered them back, and not<
Kelck (search for this): article 4
he ground, and made a second attempt to save the poor girl. But the time lost in dispute with the police was a life lost with her. This is only one of many similar scenes. Your brother Charles battered a door down in Calic Banders, or Flag street, entered and found in a small ante-room some thirty females, and all living, but like so many statues, perfectly unconscious. He was compelled to take many of them in his arms to carry them into the street and saved them all. Mr. Meiggs and Mr. Kelck fought their way through the police and reached the church at a late hour, and when the tower was falling about them, succeeded in saving several. Mr. Meiggs saw a woman still alive under a crowd of others then dead. She recognized him, and called to him, saying, "for God's sake, save me!" He rushed through the fire to her and pushed several of the dead from her, then attempted to lift her out from among the dead, but they were so firmly wedged in about her and on her, he had to abandon
Demilow (search for this): article 4
enue leading to the fire. They have, as you know, no fire engines except some two or three old Gordon pumps. I fought my way past the police one entire square, by wresting guns and sabres from their hands, knocking them out of my way, and being knocked in return, until I was overpowered by numbers and compelled to retreat, and all within hearing of the most heart-rending lamentation that ever sounded on human ear. And nearly every foreigner fared similar to myself — was kept back. Mr. Demilow, of the gas works, received a bayonet wound at the fire while in the act of rescuing a young lady whom he recognized — a Miss Larren. He had fought his way, in company with one of the workmen at the gas works, to the church, and battered down a side or private door, and saw Miss Larren: she at the same time recognizing him, and called on him to save her. He could not enter in consequence of a sheet of flame between them. He reached his cant to her, which she grasped with both hands
Meiggs (search for this): article 4
s, or Flag street, entered and found in a small ante-room some thirty females, and all living, but like so many statues, perfectly unconscious. He was compelled to take many of them in his arms to carry them into the street and saved them all. Mr. Meiggs and Mr. Kelck fought their way through the police and reached the church at a late hour, and when the tower was falling about them, succeeded in saving several. Mr. Meiggs saw a woman still alive under a crowd of others then dead. She recogniMr. Meiggs saw a woman still alive under a crowd of others then dead. She recognized him, and called to him, saying, "for God's sake, save me!" He rushed through the fire to her and pushed several of the dead from her, then attempted to lift her out from among the dead, but they were so firmly wedged in about her and on her, he had to abandon that. He then procured a lasso, fastened that about her waist, and the united strength of eight men could not extricate her from her companions, and they had to leave her, amid such cries for help as no Christian heart could endure, ne