The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1874, Page 3

THE VALE OF DEATH Search for the Dead of the Mill River Calamity, THE DISCOVERED BODIES. Full List of the Victims of the Disaster. TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Scenes of Sorrow and Sicken- ing Horror Continued. HEARTS CRUSHED AND HOPES BLASTED, Entire Families Swept Away and Seen No .More of Men. WILLIaMssuna, Mass., May 18, 1874, Standing on the high ground above what a week ago was the Williamsburg reservoir of the mill owners in the valley of the Mill River, and looking in the direction of Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom, Ihave before me a bird’e-eye view of the vale of devastation. At my feet is the bottom of the reservoir itself, black, ghastly and menacing. The ‘Very stumps which lift themselves above the dark mass of sediment seem to mock at the desolation Of the valley below and at those who come to look On the source of the disaster. ‘There are hills all around except where the brook, which now mean- ders quietly through the black bed of the lake, finds an outlet over the remains of the dike. Here two miniature mountains nearly touch each other, and were joined together by the wall and dirt of the embankment. At each side there is now &@ part of the wall as it originally stood. At the bottom a straight line of masonry even with the ded shows the base of the wall from side to side, Seen from the hill above it looks very narrow, and Actual measurement shows that in its strongest part it was only five feet nine inches wide. Tho width gradually diminished and at the summit it was scarcely wider than an ordinary stone fence. Most prison walls are stronger in every way than this dam, which held prisoner for nine years 125 Acres of water. Below the dam is a narrow gorge, extending from tne reservoir to Williamsburg, ana almost in an instant the dike gave way and the unchained waters went rushing in wrath and fury down this narrow defile, heralded only by a fying horseman, who bore the tidings of impending de- struction and death to the doomed villagers below the defile, THE FEARFUL FLOOD, ‘The scene which followed baffles description. It Was awful beyond the power of words to describe. No tmagination short of Doré’s wonderiul concep- tions of the terrible could guide the brush which Would put it upon canvas, The only account of a lke disaster which approaches it in its awful sub- lmity is Charles Reade’s story of the breaking away of the Hillsboro’ dam in “Put Yourself in His Place.” Even that account, once so vivid tomy imagination, is dull and tame to me now—inane, indeed, after seeing what I sawin the chain of Villages through which I sadly and laborionsly Btruggled to reach this spot. Yet in many respects the two disasters are wonderfully like. There was the* same parleying over the qnestion whether the dam would give way, the game playing with danger till the food was on ite way. George Cheney, aashing down the narrow deftle to Williamsburg, has his avalogy in Charles - Reade’s hero. The disbelief, the fright, the paralysis of terror which met Cheney at the vil- lage was the reception that was also accorded the messenger of death of Keade’s imagination. The analogy did not cease even with this, and Haydens- ville ts to-day the counterpart of Poma Bridge. Never were two tales so marvellously similar. And in the one case ag in the other the mad waters were upon the operatives before their dull sense of the awful danger enabled many cf them to comprehend the impending disaster and to escape from it. Williameburg had ten minutes to Prepare, and Williamsburg mourns sixty dead, Haydensville had four minutes, and it gave forty victims tothe flood. Leeds had only two minutes, and fifty litele® forms were buried in the aébris, dashed against the hillsides and strewn over the meadows above Florence. THE SCENE OF DESOLATION. On the spot where I stand to-day, with pencil in hand to write these lines, Ican see the black bed ofthe reservoir which Ihave already described, the abutments which remain of the broken dam, andthe wild gorge through which the waters rushed on their way-to the villages which stretch before me in the misty distance. Though called by different names they are, in fact, one town—a chain of villages stretching all the way from Northampton to Williamsburg, at the opening of the gorge. Much of the latter place still remains, ‘the town hall being the middie of a hamiet left un- touched by the waters. Smilmg over it in the sunlignt of yesterday I saw the village cemetery, tts green sward yawning with opening graves. To-day it is grim and gloomy, even terrible, with tne rain pouring down upon the fresh earth of new-made graves. But itisonly astep from what remains of the village to the part of it over which the flood Swept in its blind wrath. Alittle farther to the east, and closely hugging the eastern hills, the work of death and desolation begun. Here the bed of the stream is lost, and for a mile below the waters percolate in 1,000 rills through as many Channels till they come togetner again just above Haydensville. The roadbed is gone, and for two days Jong lines of vehicles have been slowly Ainding their way through the submerged meadows ‘where the mills and dwellings stood. The depot is a mile below, and all above it is a waste. On Saturday the valley was impassable above the depot, There is no highway even now, and & good road will be the work of years. The sites Of the houses and mills, as well asthe buildings, have disappeared, Surveys based upon old title deeds will ve necessary to determine what is ‘whose and where the old landmarks were. Maps are of no use to a visitor like me, for where 1 see houses marked on the page 1 behold only desola- Jation in the valley. Here ts a house toppled over On its side, but where it was or whence it came Iknow not. There is@ structure tossed about by the flood till it was left with the roof on the ground. But most of the buildings marked on the map have not only disappeared, but all traces of them are gone., Their fragments strew the earth all the way down the valley, and the Connecticut ‘bas carried much of the débris out to the sea, THE FORCE OF THE WATERS, And even the earth, the ground, the banks or the conglomerate masses which pass for these are diMoult of recognition in the elements which constl- tute them. Great rolls of cloth are interwoven ‘with the débris and the soil. Buttons and instru- ments of brass and tron and steam boilers and brick and stone and parts of buildings and rem- nants of household furniture are strewn about in- aiscriminately. Everything is everywhere and nothing can be found. In coming up to my mount of vantage my carriage wheels passed over a Deaten and battered “‘waiter”—it may have been of stiver forall know, A little further on they ground into fragments a triangular piece of marole from some fine laay’a dressing case. And as I stand here I Jook down upon this fearfal scene of desolation, too marvellous tp its sudden transfor- mation to describe it, and too terrible tn its in- conceivable agony to picture or portray it. As far fs the eye can reach, thi story of waste, of devas. tation agd death is only varied Bow and then by NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. an incident a little more terrible than the others or some mad work.Of destruction a little more conspicuously frightful than the rest. The face of nature has completely changed in this once happy and smiling valley, amd every scene refects the sorrow around it, And the rains which poured down all day long. have made this theatre of death even ghastlier than it was before. With the full sunlight of yesterday it waa ghastly enough without the sombre shades of tnis fretfal day. I cannot now attempt to recount the disas- ters, beginning with the wife and daughter of Liv- ingstone Bartlett, who were the first to fall vic~ tims to the flood, and ending, perhaps, with the little boy whose body I saw dragged out from the meadows below Leeds. WAYDENSVILLE,, Tpointed a moment ago to Haydensville as the Poma Bridge of Charles Reade’s story. It 1s the village in the centre of the valley. Immediately below tt is Leeds; above it Williamsburg. It was a beautiful village. William Skinner’s silk mill, which was just below the Williamsburg depot, marked the dividing line between it and its neigh- bor village. The mill is gone to the last brick and the elegant mansion of its proprietor is the shat tered monument of what this man had wrought. The operatives at first regardea the story o1 the coming flood as a joke and it was not until the mill and many houses near it were swept away—not until the flood had come and almost gone that they awoke to the terrible reatity. Onward swept the waters, and the mill of Hayden, Gere & Co. was also swept away, and with it the savings bank, where some foolhardy people had ensconced themselves to wit- ness and watch the flood. At this point the river ‘Was walled with solid masonry, but the walls were uprooted and the huge stones which composed them were tossed about like so many pebbles dropped into an eddying current. On the high ground above is the house 0! Joel Hayden, built by the late Governor Hayden, where the botler from the mill now lies on the lawn, Other residences equally elegant stand in @ line with it, and though they remain, every tree in front of them which was not swept away is imbedded in im- mense masses of débris where, perhaps, some of the undiscovered bodies are buried. On the other side of the river the banks were not so high and nearly everything went with the food, a line of rubbish on the hillside marking the height which the waters reached, And so rolled the flood off through Leeds, continuing its work of destruction till its force was weakened in the meadows above Florence. Thus weakened, on and on it Went till the Connecticut swallowed it and all that came with it, calmly vanquishing what & moment before nad been a giant, My imagination has been so much impressed by what I witnessed coming here—the desolated val- ley, the ruined buildings, the houses filled with the dead, the vehicles bearing the disfigured bodies of the victims, the possibilities of almost impossible revelations of disaster and death—that I cannot overlook the scenes upon which my eyes have Tested without emotions which come to few men in the course of a long lifetime. This is no ordl- nary scene, even toone who has seen death in every shape. It is worse than a battle field where the carnage has been terrible, for here most of the victims have been women and children, too weak to run from the death that overtook them, It was an overwhelming torrent, rushing through a peace- jul valley and showing itself a messenger or destruction, which claimed first of all what was choicest and best, That valley, once noted for its industry, and now historic from its calamity. is before me, and its woes may be seen wherever the eyes chance to rest. Wil- lhamsburg, Haydensville, Leeds are the names of one common misfortune which could not ave happened if a few men, considered the safest and best in the community, had guarded as carefully their own interests and the lives of their operatives as they had shrewdly carved fortunes out of nothing, . TOUCHING INCIDENTS, And, again, the disaster was full of incidents, It could not be otherwise where the story of every victim was a tragedy scarcely leas terrible than the crimes of the French Revolution. I have haa brought to me here where I write the stories which the newspapers in Springfield tell—stories which, inmany forms, are repeated from one end of the country to the other—and what I Most remark about them. ts,..he Deedlessness with which the important and the antmportant are com- mingled. The account of Henry Tilton bearing is mother and bis little son to @ place of safety, but eseaping, while both of those he loved were swept away, is more pathetic than Virgil’s legend of neas bearing Anchises upon his shoulders from ruined Troy—more dramatic than Henry Little's struggle with the Hillsboro’ food for the safety of Grace Curden. . But in the next breath we are told that a cow floated down from Williamsburg to Florence, and escaped with only @ broken horn. Poet never wrote any- thing finer in conception or truer to the grand and overpowering impulses of a mother’s heart and a mother’s love than is contained in the lament of tne poor Irish woman who lost her husband but saved her crippled cnild only to lose him also by @ subsequent accident which befell him while they were bearing him to a place of safety. “Oh!” cried she, “that I should live to see this night! An’ the boy cried to me, ‘Sure you won’t leave me, mother, to be carried in the flood!’ an’ lrushed and snatched him out of bed, and got out between the houses, and, as God hears me, I could’t get farther, an’ I stood there, an’ the boy in my arms, an’ the water going over me. And I was knocked from here wit a tim- ber that hit me on my leg and again in the breast, but [’m alive and I saved the boy, but he'll die the mornin’, an’ the man’s gone. Edward's gone! Oh, but for the rainy morning, he’d been here at work and saved! Oh, my darling, my darling, God help us!” No pen, save Victor Hugo’s, fushed with describ- ing the horrors of La Vendée, can adequately describe this disaster, Among calamities It is epic in all its phases. I can only survey the fleld over which the mad waters rushed in their fury and think that if [ had time to collect all my thoughts and opportunity to select the fittest word for telling all [have heard I might unfold a chapter which other men would read With feelings akin to my own, THE SEARCH FOR BODIES. NorTHAMPTON, Mass., May 18, 1874. The scene of Saturday's terrible disaster in the Mill River Valley is still burdened with tne barrow. ing asnect of death and desolation. In fact, the devastated territory may well be termed the mod- ern ‘Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Tne mourn- fal work of searching for and recovering the bodies of the unfortunate victims is still going on, and almost every hour adds to the mass of mangled and distorted corpses which has been taken from the débris of the inundated country. With the 160 odd bodies already recovered, to- gether with those missing and positively known to be lost, the record of fatality from this terrible event wiil exhibit the loss of upward of 200 soula, All Kinds of business are, of course, sus pended in the neighborhood lor the time being, and the energies of the whole community are concentrated in the sad and merciful work of recovering and burying the dead and caring for the hundreds of suffering survivors, There is only one subject talked anywhere in Western Mas- sachusetts, and that is the calamity which has caused such universal grief and mourning. Mingied with general expressions of sorrow there are many involuntary expressions of indignation towards the corporation which constructed and maintained the flimsy reservoir which has swept away so many thrifty villages and caused the loss of so many valuable lives, A CORONER'S INVESTIGATION 1s too early newand the people are too much overwhelmed with grief and despair for a proper and rigorous investigation; but when the momen- tary excitement has subsided it ts understood that the {ull details of the disaster and its cause and the responsivility for it will be speedily devel- oped. The preliminary steps to tnis end wiil be taken by the Northampton Coroner to-morrow morning, and towards the end of the week exam- ination of witnesses will be commenced, NATURE IN MOURNING, The weather this morning has been cloudy and stormy, and sadly in keeping with the mournful Scenes of the solemn occasion. A dark morning was followed by a drizzling rain, and this in turn in the afternoon was (ollowed by one of the heavi- est showers of the spring season. The rain came down in torrents, and it really seemed as if the valley was again to be swept over by a second del- uge. All the mountain streams were suddenly swollen, and, pouring down into the broken nigh- ways, travelling was rendered almost impossible. In spite of these adverse elements, however, the scene of the disaster was visited by scores of people from all sections of tne sur- rounding country. ‘Trains from the north, south, east and west came in heavily laden, and from the interior of the country there came teams and vehicles of all descriptions loaded down with curious men, women and children. Probably not fewer than 20,000 came and went durifig the day. THE 84D SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS, The searches for the dead were continued from daylight until twilight, and about a dozen addi- tional bodies were recovered altogether. Ail were more or less distorted and mangled, and some were so horribly mutilated ag to absolutely thwart allattempta at recognition. Among those found during the day were the remains of Miss Mary, Woodward, who was washea down the stream with Captain Vaughn, with whom she bearded, near the Leeds depot. She was o fair-haired girl of eighteen, and was the daughter of the proprietor of the Madison House, in Madison, Ga. She was discovered about a mile below where she lived, and only @ short distance from the point where the body of Mr. Vaughn was found. on Saturday atternoon. Her name was on her dress, which was almost untorn, and she seems to have escaped the horrible fate of some, who were actually crashed and torn to death, and not drowned, TERRIBLE MEETING OF HUSBAND AND WIFE. During a brief sojourn of the HERALD reporter at the humble residence of Mr. Edward Hanum, lave in the afternoon,“an old farm wagon drove up with the remains of his wife, which had been Picked up an hour before from the débris below the Florence sewing machine works, The anguish and grief of the poor man were most painful to witness, and the moanings of the little motherless children as they gazed upon the mangled form made a scene which would cause the stoutest of | hearts to melt in pity. TOGETAER IN DEATH. « Im the same rode vebicle was also the body of Mrs. Roberts, the wife of an engineer on the New Haven Railroad, who, with all but one of his cbil- dren, was a victim of the great calamity. Mrs, Roberts, like Mrs. Hanum, was barely recognizable, Her right arm remained stif and stark, and, as the team moved off towards Williamsburg, the coveriet fell off and revealed to the bystanders one ghastly hand protruding from the rear of the wagon, and, like the very finger of Death, 1 pointed down the desolate valley. It was only an hoar later that the body of her husband was discovered near the spot where her own remains were found, Their little orphan boy, only eight years old and all that is left of the family, will be educated ana cared for by the Magonic fraternity, of which his father was 3 prominent member. TWO MORE BODIES FOUND. Late yesterday afternoon the body of Mrs. Posey, of Haydensville, was found near Coox’s dam, at Leeds, and not being known in that village was taken to Warner’s carpenter shop, near Florence, where it was recognized this morning. A little body, horrioly bruised and swollen, was brought in, but has not yet been identified, A SINGULAR EXPERIENCE, Among the painful and singular incidents of the calamity is the experience of Philip Hitchcock, a reporter of the Boston Journal. On Saturday he heard the rumor of the reservoir giving way and immediately telegrapned from Boston to his brother in Williamsburg for the particulars, Notreceiving @ prompt answer he subsequently telegraphed to his uncle, Mr. Adams; ‘and, still hearing nothing, he afterwards telegraphed to Dr. Johnson, also a near relative. He waited in vain for an answer to his messages until late on Saturday night, and finally retired. Upon reading the prese accounts on Sunday morning the absence of re- Plies to his communications was sadly explained. Almost the first names in the list of casualties ‘whicn met bis eye were those of his brother, Mr. Adams, his uncle, and Dr. Johnson. All were Swept away in the terrible tide of death. Mr. Hitchcock came up to Williamsburg this morning to pay the last tributes of sorrow and respect to the memory of his kindred, but he found that sanitary reasons had necessitatea their interment yesterday, THE NEED OF CLOTHING. A touching little incident, {llustrating the imme- diate wants of the surviving sufferers was wit- | messed in the village hall in Haydensville this atter- hoon, where are located the headquarters of the Temporary Relief Committee. They had received food and other indispensable articles forsupplying the destitute, but eu their means were terribly inadequate to the demand. Quite @ namber of children of the class referred to were on the stairs, At last one, some six or eight years old, ventured upa little. She was dressed, bus her garments had evidently been made for a much younger girl. Barefooted, barearmed and bare- neaded, she came to ask when the clothes were coming. She was informed that a telegram from New Haven promised a supply by the two o’clock train, which was then overdue. She promptly replied that the train was in. The gentleman told her it was not due then; but she persistemtly argued that it was after two o’clock and that she had seen the people com- ing from the depot, and she then went away, shiv- | ering and weeping. CANINE SAGACITY, Among the multitude of singular and touching events incidental to this calamity is one showing the remarkable sagacity and in- telligence of the canine race which is worthy of record. Colonel Hayden, one of | the sons of the late Lieutenant Governor Hayden, owns a noble dog of tue St. Bernard species. He has for a long time been a village favorite and pet of the school children, who were taught near the Hayden residence. He was as punctual at bis recesses as the foremost child. The little ones could adorn his tail with fancy ribbons, wind their jumping ropes all around him and throw him upon the ground a captive; send him to fetch sticks, push | him off the bank into the river, harness htm up and run the streets with switch in band, and in fact do almost anything with him, and yet he was their ciose friend and protector. It ts said of him that he had a apecial liking for little girls, and that one of his greatest favorites was the little Birmingham girl who was swept down and lost with her father, mother and all her brotners and sisters. A pat from her hand was school was out, when he would almost invariably accompany her home. But the mastiff had another friend in Mr. Ell Bryant, the father of Mrs, Colonel Hayden, and a gentleman something over sixty years of age. He was delight to be with him, uneasy when he wi Sway, and always when he could he would ac- company the old gentieman in his walks about the village. Mr. Bryant was among the vic- tims of the disaster and so were many others of the dog’s old friends. It is said that no human being ever expressed a Keener sense of the general surrounding sadness than he. His movements even in the bustle and confusion of the occasion were noticea- ble. He went to the echoolnouse, but came almost directly home again. He introduced himself upon the domain of the 1amily and was ip every part of the house snuffing about. An old pair of boots of Mr. Bryant’s attracted his repeated attention, as did also several articles of clothing of his lost iriend. Sunday afternoon he started out and followed the searchers fur bodies on the meadow lands. This afternoon he was seen’ on Mitier’s Flats, pawing in the sand, Mis actions finally excited suMctent attention to attract visitors, who 1ound that he had dug quite a trench, In this excavation the cause of the crea- ture’s vigorous efforts and his barking was ex- Plained, There was disclosed THE LOWER PORTIONS OF A MAN'S LIMBS, the toes of bis shoes being upturned, They could have hardly been more than half exposed to view when the dog discovered them. The next half hour revealed the form of Mr. Bryant. As the workmen prosecuted their digging around the body the dog lay down at the feet. Finally, when the face was exposed to view, the poor creature seemed overjoyed, but when a cloth was wrapped around the rigid form and the removal Was begun, the noble animal seemed bowed with @rief and sullenly and sadly he followed the party home. Diligent search haa been made fur these remains in this exact locality and it is barely pos- sible that any human being could have ever found the imbedded corpse. It is reasonable to believe that some of those now missing are BENEATH THE SAND-BEDS, which were swept over the intervales and left by the flood, their bones to be found in after time by gccident or by the changing of the course of Mill River. The Spot where Mr. Bryant’s body was found is many yards trom the river bed. ALL Lost, Among the arrivals of bereaved and lonely Mourners to-day was one young man named Fitzgerald, of New Haven, who started, as he heard of the disaster, to ascertain the fate of an aged father and mother and seven brothers and sisters. He found the homestead swept away and was told by a sur- viving neighbor that all his kindred were drowned. Their bodies were among the first recovered and all had been buried twenty- four hours before his arrival. The remains of his mother were found with the lower limbs separated from the body, and one of the limbs was buried by itself before it was known to whom it belonged, 4 YOUNG WIDOW'S BITTER TRIAL, On the first train from Springfleld this morning came a young Widow to look for the remains of two darling children and a younger sister, whom she had left in charge of them during a & temporary visit to her late hus- band’s relations in New York. In looking over the HERALD of Sunday morning she learned for the firat time of her sad bereavement. Upon arriving in town she was informed that the bodies had been removed, shockingly mutilated and buried without ceremoay in the village cemetery the day before. PAINTING AT THE NEWS, On the same Springfield train came a lady who ‘Was anxious to see a list of the lost, and borrowed @ paper irom a gentieman near whom she was standing. She sobbed at the perusal, but merely said:— “I think 1 Know some of them. One, Andrew Fennessey’s little poy, is recovered. I am 80 thankful, for his parent's sake.” “What, is Andrew, my brother, drowned?” and | there was & hollow, gasping-like sound in her Voice as she said this and fainted. This illustrates the suddenness of the news to many who could not communicate with friends on the river. A FUNEREAL TRAIN. One young /ellow was on the train going to see if his folks were all right, and was told that his mother, grandmother and several brothers and sisters were umong the missing or lost. The whole train of seventeen passenger cars bore the aspect of an immense funeral cortége, while the baggage ond express cars contained caskets, which could not be provided in Northampton. AN EMIGRANT’S LOSS, Another young man, rough in his exterior, but greatly affected by the loss of his sister, was going to the scene with ® shroud and handsome casket, She was his only relative in this country. He works in a suburb of Springfleld, and she had been an operative in the silk mill at Leeds, and was swept away with the bridge in crossing from the mill to the corporation boarding house. TENDER OBSEQUIES. Of all tender and touching obsequies which Dave been performed over the victims of this la- mentable catastrophe none have been more affecting than those over the Birmingham family in the Northampton Congregational church this after- noon. Mr. Birmingham was formerly a manu- facturer in Hinsdale, but of late years has been superintendent of the James Woollen Milis, in Williamsburg. He was swept down the stream of death, together with his whole famtly, consisting of his wife and three daughters. The oldest daughter was a teacher in one of the Northampton schools and ‘Was greatly belo¥ed by all her pupils. At the ser- vices to-day nearly all the school children of the town were present, and the scene and exercises were painfully solemn and interesting, NUMBER OF CORPSES RECOVERED. Ot the whole number lost the bodies of 110 have been recovered, seventeen of the missing being from Haydenville and eighteen from Leeds. Pos- | sibly strangers or unknown travellers may have | perished in the flood, and the search for bodies ‘will be renewed to-morrow with more vigor and system than before. LOCAL LOSSES OF LIFE. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 18, 1874. Fuller investigation only confirms the substan- tial accuracy of the estimate of the number lost already published. The latest revised lists make the total number certainly lost 145, distributed as follows among the four villages:—Williamsburg, 60; Skinnerville, 4; Haydensville, 30, and Leeds, 61, The detailed lists for the /our villages are as follows :— AT WILLIAMSBURG, Mrs. Livingston 8, Bartlett. Viola B. Colleger. A.J. Hitchcock. William H. Adams. Widow of William Snow. Mrs. William Carter. P. J. Lanchour, Mrs, E. M. Chandler. Mary Chandler, Jeremiah Ward. Widow Electa Knight. Mrs, Patrick Scully and her two children, the body of one of whom only has been found. Widow Mary Brennan. Alexander Roberts, wife and two children (one found, the other not). Mary Ann McGee. Mrs. George E. Lamb. E. C, Hubbard, Mrs. Merrick Wood and child, of Chicopee, Michael Burke. Three children of James Burke, two of whose bodies were recovered. Frederick Bird. James Stephens. Mrs, W. D. Adams and her son Willie. Mary Patrick. Mrs. Duniea, eighty years of age. Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald, forty-five years of age. Charles Fitzgerald, twenty-one years of age. Abna Fitzgerald, seven years of age. Lottie, Bertha and Tommy Fitzgerald. Terry Dundon, nine years of age. ‘Two children of John Clancey. Andrew Tennessey, his mother, wife and daugh- ter Ella. Mrs, Louisa Brouvette and four children. Mra. James Tennessey and two children. Eliza Charpentier. Mary Rouse, Patrick T. O'Nell. Alexander Laney. Ralph isham, tweaty-six years of age. Ira Dunning, seventy-two years of age. Samuel Davis. Arthur Sharp, Mrs. E. Harmon and four children, Mrs. Hurley, sixty years of age. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy. Mrs. Sarah J. Ryan and child. Mrs. Jane Cogan, Andy Cogan, twenty-two years of age. Grace Cogan, eighteen yeurs of age. Caroline Bonorey, seventeen years of age. Eveline Sherwood, Mary Woodward. Mrs, Mary Bagley. Captain T. T. Vaughn, thirty-six years of age. LOSSES OF PROPERTY, Carefully revised estimates 1x the total loss at $1,000,000,. of wnich the manufacturers and mill owners sustain $550,000; the towns of Williams- burg aud Northampton $150,000 for the repair of highways and bridges; and the operatives and in- dividuals not less than $150,000 or $200,000, THE WORK OF RELIEP, A relief committee has been organized, and the members are actively at work in all the peighboring villages. A general relief committee was organ- ized at a town meeting in Northampton this even- ing, which will take charge of and distribute all outside contributions, The Selectmen of Willlamsburg will petition the Legislature for exemption from State and county taxes this year, and for leave to change the time of the annual valuation of the town from May 1 to June 1. THE DEAD. ‘The following, so far as is now ascertained, is a complete list of those of the victims of the ca- lamity who are known to have been killed or drowned. The bodies of most of them have been recovered :— A. Ashley, George, of Leve- Adams, Willie, aged 5. rett. Atkinson, Jonn. Adams, William H. Adams, Mrs., Sr. Adams, Mra, W. H. Arow, Mrs, William, B. Brennan, Mra, Mary. Birmingham, Mary, aged Bird, Frederick. 19. Brasier, Mra. Antonio, Birmingham, Carrie, aged & Benvil, Mra, Napoleon. Bazley, Mrs, Mary. Benvil (infant), Bartlett, Mrs. Sarah, Burke, Michael, aged 36, Burke, Mrs, Bartlett (an infant). Bryant, Eli, Bartlett, redars Bruyette, Miss Ora, Bartiett, Mrs. Spencer, Bruyette, Jonnny. red 65, Broadear, Francis. age Bartlett, Thaddeus, Barney, Carrie, Bowtelle, Mrs. L. 8. Bowtelle, Miss, Henry, Birmingham, aged 42, Birmingham, Lillie, aged Birmingham, Mrs, Bronyette, Mrs., aged 38 Bronyette (five children of the above). bee Caroline, aged Bonmy, Mrs, Brodeur, Francis, Brennan, Mrs. Mary, Burke (three children). Cc Chandler, Mrs. E. M. Chandler, May, aged 9, Coogan, Miss Annie. Coogan, Miss Grace. Clancy (two children). Channon, Mr. Channon (three children of above). Canyan, Mrs, John. Canyan, the two Misses, Carpentier, Lizzie. Coliyer, Viola B. Carter, Mrs. William. Chandler, Mrs, E, M. Chandler, May. Coogan, Mrs. Jane. Davnie, Mrs. John, aged Dundon, Terry. 60. Downing, Mrs. Eliza. Downing, Miss, Donnell, Mr. Downing, Mrs, (widow). pone, Ira (aged 72). | Davis, Samuel, | Dunlea, Mrs. Ira, | Duniea (female child). | Dunlea, Mrs., aged 80. | Finnissey, Mrs, sames. | Finnissey (two children). Fitzgerald, Mrs, Robert (aged 45} | Fimnessey, Andrew,aged Fitzgerald, Lottie. 40. Fitzuerald, Oharles (aged manos’ Mrs. Andrew, __21). aged 40. Fitzgerald, Bertha, uinnedaay, Nellie, aged Frost, Mrs, H. 0. i French, A. Fitzgerald, Anna (aged Tene ee children of | ys above). Fitzgerald, Tommy. Farr (two children), Hubbard, EK, C., aged 60, Hogan (infant), Hubbard Miss. eo Hogan, Mires ‘ | Hayden, Robbie. Healley, Mrs. Patrick. Hurley, Mra., aged 60. ee! (two children of Hitchcock, G. J. above). Hill, Mra. Jacob. haus, Mrs. George E. aes Mr., Jr. Heilley, Stephen. Hillman, Mrs. Jerome. Heiley, Mra, ’ Hannon, Mra. E. Heley (two children). Haunon (four children), I. Isham, Ralph (aged 26). soy Dr. E. M., aged mi, Edward, aged Johnson, Mrs. Dr. E. M. Johngon, Char’te,aged 3. Johnson, mary, aged 6. Johnson, Mrs. (widow). K. Kingsley, Mrs. Eldridge Kingsley (child). G.. a 55. elles, Stephen. Knight, Mrs, Electra, Keiley, Mrs, Stephen, aged 70, 's8. Kingsley, Mrs. Eldridge aged 35. ie: elley, Mi Kaplinger, Christian. .» aged 35, Kingsley, Netia. Kaplinger, John L, Kingston, Mra, L Laconr, P. J. Lancombte, Archibald. Lacour, Areline. M. Mann, Mrs, Macy, Mrs. Macy, Miss, Macy (three children of this name). Moakley, John. ent Rec Lamb, Mra. George E. Lamb, Mrs. Horace. Lanier, Alexander. ‘Moses, Mrs. ae Mary Ann, aged 1 Meckier, Edward, Meckler, (Four other persons of this name re supposed to be Mrs. Eliza Downing and her daughter. Widow Downing. Henry Birmingham, wife and three children, Mrs, £.G. Kingsley, Seemingly enough to repay him for waiting anti! | Mrs. E. D. Kingsley and two children. * Dr. F. M. Johnson, wife and three cnildren. ‘Widow Johnson. Frank Morray and wife, John Atchinson, Spencer Bartlett and wife, Mrs, George E. Lamb. Frank Train and wife. George Ashley. AT SKINNERVILLE, Mrs. Jerome Hillman, Mra. Jacob Hill, Eli Bryant. L, Robbie Hayden. AT HAYDENSVILLE, Mrs, Norris. Jonanna Williams, Francis Broadear, John L. Kaplinger. Mrs. Hogan and one child, Edward Mockier. Mrs. Mosier, Jr. Mrs. John Wilson and three children. Mrs. Posey and two children. Mrs. Antoine Brosier, Mrs. Measie and two children, Mrs. Napoleon Bessentle and infant. Stephen Ketley, wife and daughter. Two children of Edwin Thayer, Agnes, George and another fufant child of Samuel Miller, Mrs. Patrick. Charles Patrick, Jolla Patnick, AT LEDS. lost.) Messie, Mrs, Louis, Mosher, Mrs. Messie, Misa, Mosher, Mrs., Jr. Measie (three children of Miller, Samuel. the name). Miller (one child). Murray, Francis, Miller, Agnes, Murray, Mrs. Francis, Miller, George. * Norris, Mrs. Norris, Miss. o. O'Neill, Patrick T. O'Shaughnessy, Mrs, Pp. Patrick, Mary Patrick (three children). Patrick, Cuarles. Posey,.Mrs. Luke. Patrick, Mrs, Charles, Posey ee children). Patrick, Julia, Posey, Miss. Qa. Quigley, Mrs. H. F, Quigley, Miss. Roberts, Alexander. Roberts, Mra. Alex. Roberts (one citid). Roberte, Altce (iniant), Ruley, Stephen, Sharp, Arthur. Sherwood, Eveline. Spencer, Mr., aged 70. Stevens, James. Shandiey, Mrs. Shandley (chtid). Riley, Mrs. Stephen. Rose, Mary. Ryan, Mrs, Sarah J. Ryan (two children). Ss. Scully. Patrick W. Smith, Mr. Snow, Mrs, William, Scully, Mrs. Patrick. Scully (two children), Sonchone, R. J. Thayer (two children), Train, Frank. Train, Mre. Frank, Vaughan, Captain J. F., aged 36, Ww ‘rilton, 1. H. Tilton, Mrs. Tilton (two children). rd, Jeremiah, aged 70. Williams, Mrs. Joshua. Wen a sali Willams, Miss Johanna, Wood, Mra. Emma (of Wilson, Mrs. John. Chicopee). Wiison (three children), Wood, ‘Herrick (child). Woodward, Miss Mary, THE NEED OF RELIEF. Boston, Mass,, May 18, 1874, Acommittee of the Massachusetts Legisiature, appointed to investigate and report upon the Mill River disaster, with a view to extend necessary aid, started on their mission at five o’clock P, M, to-day. Mayor Cobb has called an informal meeting of citizens, at the City Hall, to-morrow morning, to devise measures Of relief. Governor Talbot, who returnea from the scene of the disaster to-day, states that the imme- 3 Vicinity; but tnat more permanent and syste matic relief 1s demanded. Besides the three or four handred families rendered home) alarge number of operatives are thrown out o| employ- ment, with a loss of everything except the scant clothing on their persons. AID FOR THE SUFFERERS. ood To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD :— We offer our services to the charitable to take charge of and remir to responsible gentlemen at Wiliiamsburg and neighboring villages, for the ben- eft of the sufferers by the appalling calamity of baturday last, soch iunds as they may feel dis- posed to contribute. The funds received will be rire rire opine the Petees prnteapae daily. Respectiully, your obedien' rval i me c. BH. ‘. BLAKE, 79 and 81 Worth street. vig acknowledge the fullowing received to-day om u. Cc. Ww E.R. 1, Sawyer & Co Wentworth & Co ..........05 Haines, Bacon & Co Low, Harriman & C B. H. smith & Co. E. 8, y & Co... ” Cochran, McLean & Co. William Turmbull & Co.. Harding, Colby & Co... POSTSORIPT. SeSSs8SESsece TUESDAY, MAY 19—3 A. M. ENGLAND. The Labor Strike Likely To Be Arranged Amicably. Lonpon, May 19—5 A. M. Messrs, Dixon, Rughes, Morley and Macdonald have informea the National Laborers’ Union that they are in hopes of arranging the simuttaneous Withdrawal of the “lock out’? and the cessation of the strike. The Union favors their plan of adjuat- ment, AUSTRO-FRENCH DIFFICULTY. . A Prince and a Duke Calling for Pistols. Lonpon, May 19, 1874. The Paris correspondent of the Standard tele- graphs that a duelis impending between Prince Metternich and the Duke de Montmoreucy. THE STEAMSHiP MANCHU. Passengers Picked Up from the Wreck. SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 1874. The steamer Mauchu, from Nagasaki for Shanghai, was lost March 17 in a heavy gale, Captain Lowell, Dr. Spedding, and three others were picked up, March 19, by the German brig Utto, and are the only persons known to be saved out of fifty—crew and passengers, (Tne wreck of the Manchu has been already reported, specially, in the HERALD.) YACHT RACE. The Philadelphia Yacht Club on the Delaware—The First Race of the Sea- son—List of Entries and the Result. PHILADELPHIA, May ‘18, 1874. The Delaware Yacvt Race, which among those with a disposition and regard for aquatics has been Ageneral topic for several weeks past, came off to-day. The occasion could not have very well been more annoying to those participating, fora heavy rain bezan falling at about eight o’clock A, M. and continued until after noon. By half-past nine A, M. ail the second class boats were announced as sendy and the signal was ven. The following are the numbers and position® which the race began, No. 1 being to windward. SECOND CLASS. 1, Gears R. Jesson; 2, S, H. Standiford; 3, Wil- lam ‘palen; 4, Julia: 5, George Lewis: & Enchantress; 7, Powell Sheppard; 8, James Wigfall; 9, dona Wilson; 10, Annie E. Ormrod; ll, Salhe; 12, John B. mer ; fe resid Leary; 14, Rachel S. Gillman; 15, Levi C. Siner; 16, Kari B. Miller; 17, 5. A. Maurer; 18, Annie Parker 19;-Littie 20, Agile; 21, Richard Riddle ; 22, Jonn D. tham ; 23, Lilian ; Eaward W. Ebe! Sree miaea A aes an May: 2 le = aries 3 4 Leo Retnfreid ; 32, Eliza Brody, * « As soon as the second class had gotten fully under way the first class set out, the time being about ten o’clock. The names and positions of the first class are as ioliows:— . FIRST. CLASS, 1, Charles Hillman; 2, Harry Strimmell; 3, W. B. Clymer; 4, George Hor Willie Kleintz; 6, Tyler Hamitton ; 7, Henrietta 8. Austin; Al. F. a taper 1, Al. Dager; 12, Kate Cogs Jonn F, Obl; 14, John D. Hillman; 16, John Suz, Jr.; 16, Windward; 17, Kate Akins; 18, Lizzie Ardis, ‘The boats had not been long on the course before the Al, Dager took the lead and le{t her rivais in the rear. bie E COURSE was from Kensingtou Whar! to a buoy below the blockhouse and return. THE WINNING BOATS arrived in the following order :— First Class—William Kleintg first, Al. Dager second and Al. F, Eggleston third. Second Class—Charles F. Riddle first, John B. Brewer second and S. A. Stanford third. The John D. Hillman ran aground near League Island flats; the Ida May upset, but her crew were rescued, and the Salde was disabled by the loss of her haiyards. Yachting Notes. Arrived at Newport May 18, yacht Sea Witch, Vice Commodore Clott, Atlantic Yacht Club, Arrived at Lewes, Del., May 18, yacht Eva, from Norfolk. WEATHER REPORT. .- WAR DEPARTMENT, —* } OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, D. C., May 19—1 A. M. Probabilities. For THE MIDDLE STaTss AND LOWER LAB REGION CLEAR OR CLEARING AND COOL WEATHER, WITH NORTHWESTERLY TO VARIABLE WINDS AND STATIONARY TO RISING BAROMETER, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hadnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1878, 1874, 1878, 1874. 8:30 i M. 67 60 an) 8S 85 ba ding date ‘at NEW YORK SOOIETY OF NEUROLOGY AND ELECTROLOGY. A stated meeting of tnis association was held last evening in the hall of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Meredith Clymer presided, Dr. Lincoin, of Boston, was introduced, and gave the meeting some notes on “The Resistance of the Body to blec« trical Force.” The special order of the even- ing was an examination of “The Theory of the Ex- istence and Localization of Motorial Centres tu the Cerebra! Hemispberes," with experimenta! demon- atrations by Dr. Eugene Dupuy. The following are the conclusions arrived at from his experiments :— 1, Thar itis possible by exciting certain points of the cortical layer of the cerebrum to obtain con- tractions in every limb. 2 ‘th A rule the fore limb of the opposice side ts that affected. 3. That the electric current must ve propagated to the base of the cerebrum to excite either the nerves arising Jrom 1 or the base iteel!, or the Pons varoltt. 4. ‘That tf the dura mater be electrically excited con- tractions are obtained in the fore i gene- rally tn that of the opposite side. 5. The iact that the galvanoscopic irog is thrown into a state of contraction when its nerve touched some part of the cerebral mass, far trom the point excited, com firms the View that the electric ca! Sout ir prope gated, 6, Contrary to the effects vliuned by Fer. Tier, Dr. Dupuy was vever able to obtain effects upon the tongue either of projection vi recraction. 7 The who.e cortical layer of the Baa | & probably a centre of reflexton jor a certain kh sensibility capable of exerting a reflex action om motor or sensory nerves, but that its preservation 48 not indispensable for the tnanuestation of volun. yr. Dapu on which Di pay roduced diate wants of the most destitute are being sup- piled by Springfield and other towns in the 1 f the opposite limbs can still ve aner the es iatfon of the pptic thalami and: corpora, striata ut the opposite Ww that which the itie tation bas been appiieds