 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 530 pages
...obstructions. After obtaining number 14 the crane was visited. Here 21 bodies, from number 15 to 36, lay in ghastly confusion: some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effectswere extremely various... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 514 pages
...obstructions. After obtaining number 14 the crane was visited. Here 21 bodies, from number 15 to 36, lay in .ghastly confusion: some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effects were extremely various:... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...were, therefore, the only indexes by which they could be recognised. At the crane twenty-one bodies lay in ghastly confusion : some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all; but its effects were extremely various... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1814 - 242 pages
...Sunderlund, when 92 persons were destroyed in that mine. When the bodies had been taken out, some appeared like mummies, scorched as dry as if they had been baked. One wanted its head, another its arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all— but its... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...therefore, the only indexes by which they could be recognised. . At the crane twenty-one bodics lay in ghastly confusion : some like mummies, scorched as dry as if they had been baked. One wnnted its head, anolher an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon... | |
 | William Burdick - Almanacs, American - 1814 - 240 pages
...Sunderland, when 92 persons were destroyed in that mine. When the bodies had been taken out, some appeared like mummies, scorched as dry as if they had been baked. One wanted its head, another its arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all — but its... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...obstructions. After obtaining number 14 the crane was visited. Here 21 bodies, from number 15 to 36', lay in ghastly confusion ; some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head> another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effects were extremely various... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...were, therefore, the only indexes by which they could be recognised. At the crane twenty-one bodies lay in ghastly confusion: some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effects were extremely various:... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...obstructions. After obtaining number 14 the crane was visited. Here 21 bodies, from number 15 to 36, lay in ghastly confusion ; some like mummies, scorched...One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effects were extremely various... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...were, therefore, the only indexes by which they could be recognised. At the crane twenty-one bodies lay in ghastly confusion : some like mummies, scorched as dry as if they were baked. One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of fire was... | |
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At the crane twenty-one bodies lay in ghastly confusion: some like mummies, scorched as dry as if they had been baked. One wanted its head, another an arm. The scene was truly frightful. The power of the fire was visible upon them all ; but its effects... 
