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Newspaper Data for Belknap County, NH
March 5 1823
It is stated in the New York Evening Post, that at the time the fire commenced in the Cotton Factory lately burst
at Meredith, (N.H.) there were seven females at work in the third story, and being precluded the means of escape
by the stairs, leaped out of the windows, and were severely injured. Two or three, it is supposed by the Surgeons,
mortally. The spines of the backs of six of them were materially injured; one had her skull fractured, and the
flesh of her forehead lacerated in the most shocking manner, also the bone of the right thigh broken very badly,
the upper extremity of which was driven through the flesh into the snow or earth. Others being pushed through the
windows, face foremost, struck with their hands and faces, and cut and bruised their foreheads and eyes. Others
received their weights upon their feet, and dislocated their ankles. Everyone remained senseless and motionless
until borne away by their friends. [Page 3, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg,
Penn) - Submitted by Nancy Piper]
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