Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

by Alvin F. Oickle
Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

by Alvin F. Oickle

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Overview

The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out for help, a lantern fell, and within minutes fire engulfed the building, burning those trapped inside. It took days for rescuers to complete the grim task of removing the charred bodies of the dead. Alvin F. Oickle's riveting account illustrates why, nearly a century and a half later, the Pemberton collapse is still considered one of the worst industrial calamities in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596295063
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 06/27/2008
Series: Disaster
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Alvin Oickle is the author of two other recent "disaster books" from The History Press: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill and Disaster at Dawn: The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896. His other nineteenth-century history books include Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand. Al has been an Associated Press feature writer, a daily newspaper editor and a writing instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His long career in journalism has also extended into broadcasting.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     9
Introduction     11
"Like Waves of the Sea"     13
Shadows in the Afternoon     21
The Fall of the Pemberton Mill     29
FIRE!!!     53
The Next Few Days     65
The Committee on Relief     85
The Inquest Begins     91
The Jury's Verdict     103
The Aftermath     111
Bibliography     123
About the Author     127
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