Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

Title: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill
Author: Alvin F Oickle
I: 1709937
ISBN: 9781596295063
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 128
Section: History | United States | State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Publisher Description: 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.