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bers away. Again she ifave up for lost, when she felt herself knocked a.gainst
an obstruction. She instiiu ti\ ely threw out her hand and clutched it. Here
she remained until the water subsided. She ^\as on the Cauil)ria Iron Works,
and had been sa\ed by holdin:; to a pipe that came thronuh the roof. That
awful nii;l!t she remained there, almost freezin.L; to death, while en\'ekijied in
a dense mas^ of snoke from the burninu drift. The cries of those roastiuL; to
death she heard plainly. On S.itLnala}' some men succeeded in ,i;ettinL,' ]\Iiss
Chambers from her perilous position, and took her to tlie luuisi,' cif friends in
Prospect. With the e.\ce[itioii r.f bruises, she escaped witlujut iniur\'.
Georye Hartley was one of the fe-\\ who got out of the Ilulbert House
alive. He said :
"About fne miinitcs before the cr.aih came, ue heard a whistle blou-. Thinking, il was for
a fire, all ran up-stairs. I had just reached the second-story landini:; when the waters struck the
building and the walls crumbled, penninc; the helpless guests in the ruins, .-Vs the waters rushed
over my head I became fastened between the timbers, with no possible means of escape in si