Republican Herald

LOSS OF LIVES, AND NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.—Two men were suffocated in a kiln, on Monday morning, about half way between Burlington and Moorestown. They were engaged in preparing a kiln for burning lime, in which stone coal and charcoal are used in alternate layers. In the course of the operation, and after the under layers had become ignited, one of the men descended for the purpose of leveling the coal, and was immediately overcome by the suffocating effects of the charcoal. His companion went down to his assistance, and was similarly affected, and both were so completely prostrated as to be incapable of getting out. In this condition, they were discovered by the wife of one of the men. She immediately descended the kiln, and attempted to secure a rope about her husband, in hopes of being able to pull him out, but soon found herself gasping for breath. She succeeded in reaching the mouth of the kiln, and after recovering herself, descended a second time, but was again compelled to leave her husband, whom she left in the agonies of death beneath her. Unable to witness his expiring struggles, without endeavoring to save him, the heroic woman made a third descent, and after a very exertion, was forced to relinquish her desperate task, and the smothering effects of the charcoal were so distressing, that she was just able to reach the top of the kiln, when she fell, from exhaustion and faintness.

The two men are dead.—[United States Gazette.