History of the city of Lawrence . ken by the walls. His watch had stopped at 13 minutesto five, and this is supposed to have been the precise time ofthe catastrophe. Several persons were rescued who reportedthemselves unhurt, but it was soon discovered that one had abroken arm; another, Mr. Thomas A. Watson, had three ribsbroken, his lower jaw broken in three places and several se-vere flesh wounds. During the night succeeding the accident the weatherchanged and became piercing cold, so that many of the unfor-tunate victims to the ravages of the fire would doubtless haveperished by the severit
History of the city of Lawrence . ken by the walls. His watch had stopped at 13 minutesto five, and this is supposed to have been the precise time ofthe catastrophe. Several persons were rescued who reportedthemselves unhurt, but it was soon discovered that one had abroken arm; another, Mr. Thomas A. Watson, had three ribsbroken, his lower jaw broken in three places and several se-vere flesh wounds. During the night succeeding the accident the weatherchanged and became piercing cold, so that many of the unfor-tunate victims to the ravages of the fire would doubtless haveperished by the severity of the weather before they could havebeen rescued, had not the terrible conflagration put so tragicand awful an end to their anguish. Strict justice to the dead and the living, but more particu-larly to one of the most sincere, earnest and high minded menwho has ever been connected with the enterprises of this city, 122 ADVERTISEMENTS. D^VIS MUTUAL ADVERTISmO CAUD OR ENVELOPE, ^s §1 o 3 Patent applied for. A. Davis, •r O g ^3 o Whereby each person advertises for himself and all the others, thusmaking it a Mutual Advertisement. Forty thousand envelopes of this cut have been printed. HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, 123 demands from us an earnest though feeble tribute of exonera-tion from censure. That Capt. Bigelow felt the blow inflictedupon his reputation as an engineer in the fall of the Pember-ton, with terrible force, there can be no doubt. No heartbeat more in sympathy with those who were perishing fromthe effects of this calamity than his own, and yet in all his longexamination, nothing that might, by any possible construc-tion, be made to weigh against either his judgment as a man,or his attainments as an able and trustworthy engineer, waswithheld on his part to shield himself from the odium of hav-ing caused it all. His evidence was calmly and most suc-cintly given. He attempted no evasion of responsibility, evenwhen such an evasion would have been, not only by imp
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