e Book on Immigrant workers in Mass. 1860 An authentic history of the Lawrence calamity, embracing a description of the Pemberton Mill, a detailed account of the catastrophe, a chapter of thrilling incidents, list of contributions to the relief fund, names of the killed and wounded, abstracts of the sermons on the subject, report of the coroner's inquest, &c A large number were Irish http://www3.gendisasters.com/massachusetts/10005/lawrence-ma-pemberton-mills-disaster-jan-1860 The following lists are from the book "An Authentic History of the Lawrence Calamity" pages 54 thru 57. List of the Dead and Injured. The following list of the dead, badly injured, slightly injured, and missing or unidentified, has been officially revised and corrected, and is believed to be accurate. It was compiled by Hon. John R. Rollins, Ex-Mayor. It will be seen that the total number of dead and missing, is ninety: of this number, severty-six bodies have been recovered and recognized, thirteen are yet unrecognized, leaving but one missing. http://www.archive.org/details/authentichistory00dyer _________________________________________ Victims Names on pgs 54 - 57 in above e-book Estimates of the number killed by the collapse and subsequent fire vary from 90 to 145. Most were recent immigrants, either Irish or Scots, many of them young women. A 2002 fictionalization of the disaster recounted: Flames spread rapidly, and now terror of fire threatened those waiting to be saved. Mary Bannon, pinned in the wreckage, handed her pay envelope to the friend comforting her and asked that it get to her father. 'Bid him goodbye for me,' she said, 'You will be saved; I will not'. While Irish and Scots were the majority, the list of the Pemberton Mill's casualties is indicative of New England’s labor force at that time. There were also Yankees from Maine and New Hampshire, immigrants from Germany and Switzerland, and others. All the churches of Lawrence — Baptist, Catholic, Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Unitarian, and Universalist — had parishioners to console after the disaster. Edd Sinnett in Fl. formerly from Lowell,Mass.