Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . r.—Furious Rush of the Little Ones Throughout the Vast Building,to Escape the Supposed Fire.—The Stair Hailing Breaks, and they are Precipitated to the Bottom, inHelples^ Agony.—Nearly Fifty
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . r.—Furious Rush of the Little Ones Throughout the Vast Building,to Escape the Supposed Fire.—The Stair Hailing Breaks, and they are Precipitated to the Bottom, inHelples^ Agony.—Nearly Fifty Children, in Their Beauty and Innocence, Suffocated to Death.—Hun-dreds of Families in Mourning.—Slight Source of all this Horror.—Sudden Illness of a Teacher.—Cries of Help. for Her.—Heard in the Other Rooms.—Fatal Misapprehension.—Instant and AwfulFright.—Vain Attempts to Escape —They all Pour Forth at Once.—The Street Door Locked !—Bewildered Crowds—Their Headlong Descent.—A Pile of Bodies, Fourteen Feet Square.—TheirSighs and Writhings.—Arrival of the Firemen.—Entrance Effected by Them.—Thousands WaitingOutside —Indescribable Excitement.—Anguish of Parents.—Rescuing the Sufferers.—Scenes Amongthe Little Ones.—Sweet and Tender Devotion —Burial of the Innocents. * when life is old. And man? a scene forgot, the heart will holdIts memory of jiESSONS and examples of wholesale casiialtj^, almostwithout number, and of appalling character, checkerthe liistory of a hundred years, showing the uncer-tainty of even the most forecasting prudence and judg-ment, and illustrating, with frightful impressiveness, the precarious tenureof human life. But seldom, if ever before—be it gratefully said—has sucha calamity as the one now to be narrated befallen any community ; sel-dom, if ever before, in modern times, has there been realized to the actualexperience of so many hearts and homes, the anguish of those oft-repeatedwords, the
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