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Fall River Daily News
Wednesday, 11 January 1860

         The Lawrence Calamity
         
         Despatch from Mayor Saunders!
         
         LOSS OF LIFE OVER ESTIMATED!!
         
         115 KILLED!  165 WOUNDED!!
         
         LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
         
         Additional Particulars:
         
         The following despatch is from D. Sanders, Jr.,
       Mayor of Lawrence:
       
         Lawrence, Jan. 11. - Terrible as our calamity is,
       I think it much over-estimated in the number of
       killed. As near as I have been able to ascertain
       this morning, I find dead, and missing, which is
       equivilent to dead, 115 and 165 wounded. Some of
       the wounded will die but very much the largest
       number will survive.
         A portion of operatives had left for supper
       previous to the falling of the building - about
       600 remaining. The building was five stories high,
       280 feet long, by 70 feet wide, with an L 45 feet
       square on the west side. It ran 27,000 spindles,
       and 960 operatives were employed.
         The following is a list killed so far as could
       be recognized this morning.
       
       MAURICE PALMER, overseer, Rochester, N.H.;
       JOHN DEARBORN, of Lowell;
       (transcriber's note: names below are all of Lawrence)
       MARY McDONALD,
       BRIDGET RYAN,   (transcriber note: buried. Immaculate Conception Cem.)
       MARY SULLIVAN,  (transcriber note: Margaret Sullivan,
                         buried Immaculate Conception Cem.)
       MICHAEL O'BRIEN,
       ELLEN COLBURN,
       BARNARD HOLLIFIELD,
       HANNAH SHAY,
       ELLEN ROACH,
       ELLEN SULLIVAN,
       MARGARET FALLEN,
       BRIDGET LRUGHERDY,
       JEREMIAH AHERN
       MRS. ANNA MUINICH,
       JOANNA CRONAN,
       BRIDGET LOUGHEY,
       MARY HOWARD,
       LAFAYETTE BRANCH, overseer,
       THOMAS H. WATSON,
       JOANNA HURLEY  - all of Lawrence
       
       Among the wounded are
       MARGARET ORR, fatally;
       BRIDGET BRADLEY, fatally,
       KATE HARGBEE,
       E. A. GERMAN, thigh fractured,
       GEORGE CAREALFER,
       HENRY CULI, fatally,
       MARGARET HAMILTON, fatally,
       D. F. HARRON,
       CELIA STEVENS,
       MARY and MARGARET SLANEN,
       MARY KENNEDY,
       HANNAH KENNESEY,
       ELLEN MAHETNEY,
       MARY YORK,
       ROBERT HAYS,
       IRA D. LOCKE,
       MARY A. COLEMAN,
       SARAH DOYLE
       
         Among the physicians present is Dr. Isaac Farrar,
       of Brooklyn, N.Y.
       
         ELIZA ORR has since died and others are dying.
         
         The fire is subdued. Only two bodies have been
       taken out since the conflagration.
       
         Coroner Lamb commences an inquest today. Building
       uninsured.
       
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