The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1874, Page 4

4 THE PITTSBURG FLOOD, A Water Spout of Vast Proportions Bursts Upon the City. ——_-_—_—- HUNDREDS OF HOUSES DEMOLISHED. muck betty Rn ki fnds, and suggested that the meeting hate certain banks where sub- scriohons might be left. He toeu offered tue jol- lowing:— oy That a commatice of citizens of Alleghany ul appointed to collect funds tor the sufferers food of Sunday night, July 26, Is74, with power SPB te many sab-committecs as may be uecesary work promptly K by to te. 5 ‘ ture banks in Pittsburg and three ny be appoiited as depositories, where ho Wish can call and leave such sui uiribute, without waiting to be calle Herbert suggested that, as there Meeting of a similar Dature called for to-day , 1 Would perhaps be better to appoint of copierence. Mayor Fleming did ach about committees and meetings ‘ai benevolence, He then ing the first subscription of $50 & Ewing, of this city. (Applagse.) Then Mr. D. O'Neill banded in his speech in the shape of @ check for $100, Tuere was more up- pisuse abd the Mayor sa:d the meeting meant bus- iness at last and was moving in the right direc von. Mr. L ay resoiutions were then adopted. Mr. R M. Kennedy then sent up his tueck tor suness,"’ said the Mayor, Mr. John an then moved that the blank in the resoluuon be Oiled vy the word “ten.” Co.onel Thomas M. Payne ted t the general commi'tee con- fist of five persous, with power to appoint sub- committees ater in ward and precine county. “This should be done at once,” Colonel, ‘as the need ts tmminent and pressing."” The Geveral Executive Committee was fxed to nomber five persons. Mr. Joun Dean, of the Allegheny National Bank, was eiected treasurer, om mowon of Mr. Josiah Cohen. “Business again,” said Mayor Fleming. “Mr, Dean, here is my check for $250, and i'l make it $000 if necessary.” (Applaase.) Frightful Loss of Human Life and Destruction of Property. DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY. | Over One Hundred Recovered. The Fatalities Above Two Hundred. Bodie was (uus subscribed. Mr, Slagle theo suggested that #ix depositories be named where mouey tor the aid fun the two cites. The suggestion was placed in the form of 4 motion, and the FOLLOWING BANKS SELECTED :— Workingman’s Savings Bank, m Ohio street; Allegheny Keal Estate Bans, lu bederal street i Pee Pirst National Bank, and Manchester Savings Ob. | Im Pittsburg the following depositories were | chosen:—German National Bank, corner of Wood street and Sixth avenue; Union National. corner Fourth avenue and Market street; Anchor Savings, on Futh avenue; German American Bank, on Penn- syivania avenue. ‘The Mayor then asked how the committees were to be appointed. He said they should consist of active, energetic and enterprising men who would do their whole duty in the premises. Just at this point some more subscriptions caine, aud business was suspended while the Mayor cailed attention to the iact that there were too many persons Meeting of the Citizens to Provide | Measures of Relief. fi SCENES OF SORROW AND DEATH. Bodies Horribly Mutilated and Recog- nition Impossible. PirrsBcrG, Pa., July 28, 1974. Thousands of people are visiting the scenes O¢ the great disaster to-day. In the Butchers’ Run region it W found necessary to put on moving a Ee FS ae pomranc wey iw <i 4 was upon the spirit of the meesing when tne duty @ company of the National Guard | Chairman had to remind tae auaitors that of the State to protect property and pre- they must not leave (just now there was a rush vent the crowd from interference witi the forthe door). Tuey should put down their names for something, be it more or less; every little workmen, who are clearing away the débris. work of searching for bodies proceeds slowly, owing to the immense amount of wrecked matt at moon to-day The | Would help. A committee would be ‘appotited to take down tne names of those willing tu ri » LO matter Bow smail their contributions, All was wanted 5 ae bewelcome, aud much more of at | the same Par ebm gree | THR APPEAL OF THE CHAIRMAN of the following victims took place, the barial ser- | had, however, good eflect, und more contribations Vices being conducted by the St. Vincent, St. | Were announced. Jono A. Myles and William Peter and St. Patrick socteties:— | Clanly were appointed a committee to solicit sub- Joseph and Louisa Scuriepier and four children; | men named were circulatiag about the council | Hubler and wit d Fox and wife. chamber Mr. Slagie said he saw some modest men glenn a im the audience whe did not do the talking, but The bodies will be buried in Uniondale Cemetery, Where a lot which will hold 20 of the victims has been secured by the citizens’ committee. Meas ‘ures will be taken to secure a decent interment for all the victims. Excavations are going on for four children at whom he knew would coutribute, aud at the same time be would ask that all Inteyested In the move- ment would see that their wives took part in it. ‘They could sometimes raise more money than tye men. Mr. McGraw was called upon. He had little to say, but hoped that the Streec Committee to-day a | Would see the importance of placing plenty of men the head of Butcher's Run. Five bodies have been | {ywork on the ruins. They should be divided {uta recovered to-day, but none of tnem as yet have | gangs of twenty sud placed at work us early as been identified, ssible this morning. @ Lue Committee to clear away all débris, A day CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. or two would do it if the men» were properly in- During the storm on Sunday evening the Presby- | structed, Nor should they be c ined to the streets alone, wherever it was. It must be removed immedi- ately, ahd the sooner it 1s done the better. Mr. Adam Bepler did not think the committee Dusiness with the cébris on lots that terian charch at Wilkinaburg was strock by light ‘uing, and the congregation did not become aware ofthe lact until after service, when it was dis- coveest: than the soot was splinteses. Should be attended 10 by the Board of Health. In the Temperanceville district a large number General A. Ll» Peters then announced that he oft people are viewing the ruins, The bodies of | hepa be nappy to erred bro ‘nompantes of ae ‘Mrs, Buttner and Ida McVay were recovered about | sal it pecessary, he would Bena over a regiment oon, and @ body has been found floating at the | ) and take the Command uimself. (Applause.) jerry landing which is supposed to be that of one Mr. les moved that the Mayor of Allegheny Of the sufferers. be asked to issue a proclamation lor the suppres- FROM CHARTIER'S VALLEY | ston of all busmess during the hours of to-day | when the runeral I ae ™ 4 a ee further reporta have been received. On Laughiin's | tothe cemeteries, and the people o! egheny Bun the body of Mrs. Cleat was found thts morning | $2026 asked to Joint doing proper reverence to ‘With the scalp torn off and one arm gone. Halfa 4 PROCLAMATION FROM THE MAYOR, mule above Bridgeville William Stratton, whose | The Mayor at once issued the sollowing: Mavon’s Orrice, + ‘wie and five children were drowned, was found in Orer ov Avusguasr, Jply iets f the top of a sycamore tree where he lodged, he By toy Frost oa watan bas seg al | most 100 of our ave been jt jenly int knows not bow. Another death, that of Isaac | Cttrnity by the great flood of sun ‘ae 2 Reamer, @ coal miner, on Painter’s Rup, is re- | meeting of the citizens it was resolved that the Mayor ported. One thousand dollars was raised in half an hour ®t the relief meeting this afternoon, and $1,000 Issue a proclai 2 asking all persons to suspend busi M the hours of two anu four P.M, as Was raised among the county oficers for the same Tund to-day. a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased.’ In lew of that tactT most respectfully ask our people to spend business between the hours noted to-day. H. 3. PLEMING, Mayor After it had been read, a number of additional subscriptions were announced. sued as to the meering to be held in our city t day, when Josiah Conen suggested that the execa- tive comunittee of five, with the chairman of the | committee, meet with the people of Pittsburg a3 oeoee the safferers in Pittsburg, which was lopted. The chair then announced tne following executive committee:—J. S, Slagle, Jonn Myler, | D. O'Neil, A. L. Pearson and Hugh McNeil. General Pearson has issued THE FOLLOWING ORDERS:— | SPECIAL ORDER NO, 12, BODIES FOUND, Seven bodies are reported to have been found in Wood's Run this aiternoon. Two of the bodies are unaccounted for in the list of missing, and ‘ndicate that there must have been loss of lie not yet reported. The Jollowing is an additional LIST OF BODIES RECOVERED from Butchers’ Run district to-day :— Jacob Wetzle and wile. Pl jonnecepesgaaing Huapacanrens op Tur kicurersrH Division, 8. . P. James Schnaders, Maria, nis wife, amd four chil- | to poet ey Tea eat ea nizations are hereby ordered oe | taallagheng’ ey the woos wile revere ta gil wat. Fre derick Haber, wife and one child. Oris. the division stat wil report promptly for duty Mss. Leopold and foar childrea, Batsarg, tho shore wstaed aipanisation will repect Archibald Arncld. Wiluam Humbart, Jobn Shaving’s child. CLEARING AWAY. Men and terms are busy to-day all along the Valley of the lun clearing away the accumulated rubbish and making an effort to restore the streets [From the Pittsburg Despatch of yesterday.) to something like their former condition. The weather Sunday afternoon was showery, Where Walnut street crosses Main street the | but not portentious of unusual elemental phe- cobble stone pavement was torn up in the direc. | numena. Citizens attended religious services as ton of tne hill to quite au extent, Men are to-day | usual, and when, about seven o'clock, the rain engaged in making repairs. } Subsided and the declining sun tinted the passing A NARROW ESCAPE. clouds with purple and gold, thousands crowded Witliam Dudey, his wife and child, and a lady | upon the streets seeking pleasure or recreation, visitor named Mrs. Bigley, had a narrow escape. discussing the events of the day and the prospects They heard the roar of the coming flood and fed to | or the morrow, which, alas! came not to many. the hills. They had hardly crossed the threshoid when the house was lifted up oy the roaring tor- fent and borne down the stream with the crash- ing wrecks of other bulidings. The following is A RECAPITULATION ©f bodies found up to this time:—* Upper Allegheny district, a2, Wood's Run, 9 Temperanceville, 9. promptly at the hour MAJOR GENERAL A. L, E. A. fete rd tg pitt and A. A, G. The meeting then adjourned. | THE STORY OF THE CALAMITY. rest and “silence brooded over a still and pulse- less world.’ Between nine and ten o'clock frequent and vivid flashes of lightning in | the northern heavens, accompaniea by ter- rifle peais of thunder, presaged the coming dis- aster. Momentarily increasing in violence, it was but a few minutes until the streets in many places ne impassable. ae yh ae? the gutters 5 > ike roaring torrents. The broadest avenues were Charilier’s Creek, 11. solid sheets of water, while irom the hiil sides Total found, 61. poured & eines \ berate tore eee ey 8 ton’s weight nom! | from their foundations, and gashed and seamed The number reported missing 18 still very large. | the earth as it had been. torn by an earthquake. Prom the best information which can ve obtained Notsing couid resist the awiui violence 0: rushing, the total loss of life will reach 150, seething water. Substantial brick houses crum- THE ACTION OF THE CITIZENs. bled when it struck them as if they had been made , of sand. Frame buildings were luted trom tueir In response to a cail issued yesterday by Mayor joundations, borné along on the angry current, Fleming, there was a large attendauce of citizens | and pi a 10 re against Maw ag outld- Selecy 1288 Which vainly ovstructed their course. of both Pittsbarg and Allegheny in the Select | jn" gome instances. foundations were Council Chamber last night tor the purpose of de. vising Ways and means for the relief of the sul- terers by the great food of Sunday. shortly betore eight o'clock the Mayor called the meeting to or- ger and be Was elected permanent Chairman. Messrs. Arratt and Grabam Were appointed Secre- undermined and buiysings in sand aud déuris to the 5, a story. So resiatiess Was the ‘orrent tuat notMing in its path eseaped destruction, Louses, fences, ridges, tees, all go- ing down betore it, and combining to constitute a scene ofr such as none had ever witnessed be- sunk down taries. Mayor Fleming then gave a brief his- | UT 40¢ such as we hope we may never iook upon tory of the damage done by the flood ana the , «alu. great snifering of the people, and aske But great a& Was the destruction of property it thas speedy action be taken towards § Hothigg in view of the loss of human ffte. of ameliorating the condition of hundreds of those Who retired to rest om Sunday evening in ‘her jellow witizens who had been left destitut the stricken districts more than 100 Were pailid Daring the day, he says, he had detailed police | COTPses When woruing light broke upon the 4nd guarded the injored ‘property as mach as pos- “feadiul scene. More than @ sore of little clil- dren, Who Ga Sun mother’s knee, |i sieep,”’ realizéd to ere morning br in many instan y night, Kueeling at their 1 “Now I lay me down to iui signiticance of the petition their bodies when found being dreadiuily distigured, their ceil- a1) nd had been ably seconded by the street omaitttee, but there were still greater things to be done im this sad state Oo! affairs; money was weeded, and he fel. assured from the interest Muuiiested ut the meeting that it would be forth coming. wr. Jono A, Myles suggested that the Caté limbs gasied and broken, tig beautisni Mayor or Police Commissioners be requested to | tTeases disheveled and jutermixed with loathsome secure 4 Jol vi special police, that they might go on | #ceretions. Oh! iL Was a spectacle to make strong @uty wt once in aiding those f tress, cleaning | Men Weep and sympathetic women tremole and out the thoroughtares, and resceriny, sach other | turn, tainting, away. In some cases entire fami help lo the suferers as the occasion might require, | ies Were swept from their beds, their houses fail- e Masor stated that he had taken pon tum: | 2g tn ruins upon them, and ail iost together. self the authority to p everal gangs of laborers THE SCENE BARLY MONDAY MORNING 41 work, and be felt assured that the money would | SURPAsSes the power of language to adequately ve jortheoming to pay them. Five hundred, he | d@seribe. Thousands of people, many of whom hw shought, suould be at Work now. Mr. John Slagle | been bereaved daring the night,Nocked to the scene ihought that the mecung Was getting too talka- | OF disaster to survey the ruin and if possibie to re- tive, He agreed with Mr. Myles tuat extra police. | Cover the bodies of their wives, husvands, chiliren Wen suould be secured at once and go to work. | OF friends, Hundreds of willing hands were Tuere were not omiy dend horses, ¢ s, hogs, | 800n at work removing he débris, while hundreds dogs and cals exposed to tne rays of the sup about | Ol others, With bated breath, hoping agaiusc hope she ruins, out there Were human bodies stil tidden | [hat their missing ones bad escaped, awaited the vepeath the débris, issue. As body after body was taken irom tne nd chey showd be found and Christian varial afforded them. In the speaker's Tuln8, and was recognized, men sobbed and women opimion, is would be highly proper tor Walled, while the spectators stood with uncovered the city autnorities to call ior 09 heads as it was borne away. There were mapy weno immediately, and put them to work such scenes, A German, the bodies of whose wite @ removiag dépris and securing the | 4nd three culldren were recovered and taken to his house, manifested every symptom of iusanity, vodies of the di He «id not want tits move ail the efforts o} his irtenas falling to compose hi ment to be localized, but to exvend to the humane turoughoat the entire country. To besare we had mind. At midday his condition had not umproved, and jogs eno, on the Allegheny side of #04 it is proumble the 1m ‘avle loss he water; bat phy. Saw Mili Kon, which had | SUstaiued has permanently unsettled ni wosseu Ite corpses over tothe Man- | “nd. Amid the desoiation which eavelope: shester side, and all were equaliy interestea in ‘he entire community at the ruin wrought suderers reliel. Money was , | bY the great storm of Sunday might, there ip five or ten doll | Gomes irom the North Side such @ wi SD Sy ic Fee AT NEW YORK HERALD, ‘Tnen more woney came rolling up. About $1,000 | could ve left in various portions of | | scriptions among those present, While the gentie- | Authority should be given | but to the rubbisu in general, | st. Ata public | A discussion en- | ‘Thus fell the shades of night; the people retired to | | lay first before our reader: Keves im that locality, ugh the fall of rain alone would bave sudiced to bring a terribie de- Vastation, it seems to be well authenticated that to those who send it, but strangely vld and stale to us who read it after seeing what was seen | yesterday in our very midst. Below will be found | what detatis have been gathered, with scenes and incidents that could not be told in this insdequate in this locality Was a Water Spout of vast propor- | description of this, our greatest local calamity. tions which burst Upon the bilis overlooking tie even ae CID ENTS. | city and ponred down in overwhelming volume | | In the Eleventh ward, Allegneny, along Wood's through the natural water channels, The body Run, the scene presented was one of complete de- of water fell asunder on the second range of biils struction, and told in itself the tale of the fearful ie PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF THE GREAT CALAMITY and sought @ level oY the Way ol Butcher's, food and its attendant loss ot life, In this section, | Spring Garden and Wood's rans, expanding between the crossing o! the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne them with almost the suddenness of & ani Chicago Katlway and where it crosses the Beaver road, the greatest damage was done, and here the greatest joss .of lie occurred, About half @ mile above the railroad track stands the dwelling of Pat, Farley, who proved himself a hero, | aud Frisby Denning, mill hands, who worked for Lewis, Olver & Philups. Farley managed to procure a stout rope, and one end he secured tightly to @ tree ou the side o: the hil and the other to his house, This brave fellow, with Denning’s aid, rescued not only his own !amiiy and children lightning stroke, from small but not dangerous streams to terrible elements of destruction and power, against which ali edorts of men were futile and puny. Ip Butcner’s Run the torrent first ap- peared, some two miles and 4 half trom Ubio street, near the home of Mr. Frank Metz, and its first tury was expended upon a new frame house occu pled by the Jai My os a Mr, Mattern, sweeping this away like cha fore thé wind, the torrent gaining strengt) and motion from innumerabie | | streams that ran down the sides of the hilis, swept | from the angry flood, but all the jamily of nis | against the house of Mr, Rewkept and claimed | neighbor, passing to and fro through the window THE FIRST VICTIMS | and plactog the children wa quilt. The house to the altar of its wrath in the person of himself survived, tuough cowpietely gutted. The tearful and three small children, Continaing on its mad | torreut rushed madly on, gathering strength at career, taking building after building in its course | each succeeding leap, and taking iu its course the and carrying together the rains of the buildings | lives ot the poor, uniortunate human beings that | and the bouies oi the dead, It marked tts track with | came in its Way. Below Farley’s the stream took destruction to the narrow gully below. Atthe junc- | @ sudden bend, and near this left the bed of its tion ol East street With Magison avenue the volume | original course and drove itself inst @ number burst from its comparatively narrow confines fall | of frame dwellings in its way in the narrow yal- upon the paved streets o1 the city, and, avout ley. First was the home of John Gorman, eigat feet Gepth, rushed down both the thor- | who, with his wife and three children, oughiares. Where the two came togetier wasa were in the doomed domicile. It was | narrow trame house, which first felt the force and | liited bodily, and crashed agaist the next | collapsed as if caught in the embrace of house below it, that of James Forden, a laborer in @ monstrous vice. A mother and tree Lewis, Vliver & Phillips’ miiia, These two putld- | chuldre: Damed Connelly, and a young man, ings were dasned irow their jounda\ions and went ni ers, & cripple, were Swept away cureening down the tide Jor neurly 1,000 ieet, bring- With the ruins, On East street tue water flowed | for about 100 yards, tearimg down six or seven houses, and then rolled of to the eastward and | jomned forces with the seetuing river, which had | laid noid of Madison avenue for its channel. On | us thoroughfare a large sewer, built to receive | | the whole fow of the rub, burst with tremendous jJorce, leaving & cayity some thirty jeetin depth | appalling could not be imagined. Forden and bis | and giving new and angry umpauls: to the streu. | Wile and his three little caiidren met their doom For tall a mile this avenue Was scooped out in | here. They were killed in their crumbling dwell. | places twenty feet lower thau the curb, tearipg | ing. Gorman and his two children also were made | lamp posts Wom their places and twisting them |! victims to the angry torrent in tue same spot. | lke straws in ail variety of shapes. ‘The houses on | When the two houses above mentioned weut tw | each side were fooded and the weaker ones were | pieces Mrs, Gorman managed to save her life. The | wrecked, and in some cases torn irom their joun- | lurid lightning lit up the scene, and tue woman, dations; but most of them, until Vista street seeimg an exposed piece Of guspipe, managed to | Was reached, heid together, and the terrified | catch bold O/ it, and through its au chinbed to a occupants, hauddjing in the second stories, escaped | place of sarety. @ death which seemed each moment about to | At the store of Wilson & Co, the food made an- | grasp them. At Vista street the natural valley | Other mad jeap and bounded across Suady avenue | leads to the eastward, the hill coming to @ boid | into the sueds of G. B. kekert, crushing them and | point, below which Butcher's and Spring Garden | thoroughly submerging his fine garden, which was | rans meet and dow togetner to the Allegheny. | in the rear oi! we notel at the railroad. Here the in direct ne with the flood, was tne | mighty waters tore through the feacer, leapiug ter house of Mr. Sweeden. which now lies as | madly and carrying wita it huge logs and umbers | and completely burying the track with dévria, among which Were the remaias o1 several barns. | From here the waters took # direct course towards the House of Refuge, but aiarge portion ingup with # fearful shock agatust Wilson & Trim- ble’s store, which Was forced nine feet from ita | site, but which still beld together and ‘ested | the progress of the two houses, Darkness now reigned supreme aud ten ADDITIONAL HORRURS TO THE SCENE. ‘The gaSpipes were rent asunder, and a chaos more | Here, } sla it fell, a pile of broken, mud-stained timvers. Just | below 1 Concord strect, graded some twenty feet | above the natural bed 61 the stream, which it | crogses by a culvert, meatly paved and well ligated, | was suddeaty cat in , the gap bveing | of the food kept on in its Covanel ping up an | lorty feet Ye widti, water and gas pipes | avalancne of débris against McCaskey’s house at | showing ragged projections at each swe the depot, and rushing over the crossags played The next parallel street is O'Hara, which | havoc with the yaras of the hotels at that point. The tobacco store of Edward Gutter on rrebie avenue was cerried @ couple ol hundred teet, and a dweiling house on Wilkins uveaue, near by, turned topsy-turvy, thouga its inmates, the family of Joun Graham, were given tue to make their escape, thougu saving nothing beyoud their lives. At these points, Witkins avenue aud a corn- field between Preble and the Ke(uge walis, the flood lost 118 power and made its way towards the river, doing no more damage. SEVENTH WARD, ALLEGHENY. In this section of tne city, along the Spri | falls by an easy grade to @ junction with | Spring Garden avenue, and which, on Sunda} Mornihg, was |ined on poth sides with neat bric | and frame houses, the dweilings of personsin at Yeast comfortable, and some of them quite | affluent, circumstances. As the water, checked | Jor a Moment at Concord street, burst throngh the nouses, it precipitated itsei! ina | VAST PLUVIAN AVALANCHE upon the huge culvert constructed beneath O'Hara { and adjoining streets, rent it asunder with mighty force, and, upcasting the surface, toppled down * ng Gar- the soiid buildings as by ab earthquake. | deu Run, the flood did not do #0 much uamage us | | Here. the great destraction of lite took | on Butener’s Run, but the maren of the devastat- | place. Many persons, weary ot the storm. | ing food was well marked. Spriug Garden ave- | had gone to bed, leeling, uo doubt, glad of | nue, for more than the distance of @ mile, pre- | une shelter of ‘the s roof, The 'cauuren, | sented @ terrible aspect. Houses were washed | | frightened by the lightning and the mutterings of | the thunder, sought their parents, and in many | instances mothers had gone to tue beds of their | childrea to lie down with them and comiort and | relieve their fears, With the rending of the earth | the gas pipes were torn asunder and pitch dark- | ness came with the awiul noise of the rising away and thrown together in promiscuvus heaps. Out of thirty slaugiter houses on this street, be- yond Cedar avenue, not one remains. The terribie havoc made, and the great confusion that pre- vails, prevents any delinite estimate as to the losses of property and the numver of dwelling houses destroyed. Muny of the residences that were not wholly destroyed are so badly damaged as to be unit for re-occupation, as the water in them rose to the depta of tuily fiiteen feet, flooding the first doors of all the buildings, aod in i waters and the quick upheaval of the foundations. | The spirit of the Storm passed by, and on hig | track was desolation ana death—drowned mothers | and their baves, and lathers clasping their sons to their arms, while 1amilies, nuddied together in | very many Cases found its way through tie second Jear of what might come and what did | story windows. ‘The dirt from the hills was come too quick fur action or even thoughi, | washed into the buildings and left them nearly were hurled away to be seen no more | all a mass of flitn, rendering the furmture ny in life, Some had fallen into a mercijul | household effects almost enurely useless. Beyoud | | slumoer beiore the Angel of Death stepped in, | for in the ruins, when daylight came, stretcued | but tew lives lost, at least as iar as could be upon their beds, several bodies were found, only | ascertained, some two or three are reported. A | the dripping and muddy stains distiguriug what | mau named Michael Slaughter was in Stabler’s otherwise seemed voluntary repos¢. ‘To none of tavern about hall-past nine o'clock. When the these the sudden darkness and the noise gave | danger became apparent he seized a child in nis warning, and itis alltne better that they never | arms and rushed through the door into the street. knew what manner of calamity fell upon them. He has not been heard of since. and he and the At the foot of this street the whiring, turbulent | child are supposed to have been drowned. j | waters mingled with trose which flowed from the | An elderly Woman lying sick in bed a short dis- valley of Spring Garden Run—a valley of death to tance out the avenue was swept away, and nothing many, as the other had been. A mile and a half | since has been seen of her body. Cedar avenue, hovvever, iortunately there were | apove this the stream first gathered THE SEARCH FOR BODIES, | its force, near the large buliding known | At the glue .actory yesterday afternoon a large us Burns’ glue factory. As at Buicner’s | gang of men were at work throwing the aépris | | Run, a sewer had been built to carry safely away | aside, and a continuous search was made here for the overtiow of the stream, but tas proved use- | dead bodies, which was not conciuded until late less. For a mile the water poured down parallel | lastevening., At the Joot of the run near the ip- | to Spring Garden avenue, every moment gaining | tersection o! Centre street the joss ot life was by | power and velocity, the stnall paved streets irom | tar the greatest. in several mstances houses were | H gh street, whtti ts the hill above, acting as | swept into the middie of the streets. In otner tributaries and pouring in their flow in contribu- | cases they were carried hundreds oi yards away, tion. On the other side of the valley the bill rises | while ta Still other cases roois were turn of aud almost perpendicularly, with clayey sides, which, | huried to the street, houses were thrown on Washed down by tons, seamed the sides as if by tueir sides and some shattered to pieces. A glaciers, At Basin street the sewer burst, and the frigntiul loss of lie was brought about in a water spirting out rushed under the houses single house rignt 1.0 the rear of Ceatre street, TOSSING THEM UP IN THE AIR Near toe junction of Spring Garden avenue. No- like @ volcano and throwing them in heaps to body seemed to know the persons, There were each side. Most of these buildings were stables | perhaps two or three families living in the house. and slaughter houses, with bere and there a tan- At least thisis the opinion of some who live ip nery. The only dwelling along this point where | the neighvoruood. ‘The first parties who appeared lue was sacrificed was that oi Michael Schlater, on Centre street with @ ski discovered a man who, with his child in his arms, stepped from his hanging on to the rou! of a house on the right front door into the flvod and perisned. Below hand side, towards and near Spring Garden ave- | Basin sureet fora quarter of a mile the people were | nue, At that time tue water on aroused, and rushing to the hill sides found | sume fiiteen Jeet high. tie street was They look the skuf under safety, but the bulidings were scattered as the place where the man was hanging and told ‘af blown up by powder. After the sewer | him to drop, the height being but sinall, as the burst aud the water spread out irom hillside to | skiff was nearly on a level with the sec- hiliside, it took Spring Garden avenue for its | ond story windows, ‘ue man jumped channel, and made it ariver trom six to ten feet | and was saved. tle then told the men im deep, with u velocity like a mill chase. The street | the skitfthat his family were back in the house, | is thickly built up up botn sides, the houses being | consisting of a wile aud tiree or four children. sor the most part substantially built. The occu- | He had got on the rool and jumped trom thas on | pants fled to the second stories, and thus saved | to another roof, and when he reached Centre | their lives. In tue rearof the east side of the | street the house was destroyed, aud with it were | street the overflow whirled and tossed, tearing lost a mother, with three or four chiidren, and the | out the sides of the stables, occasionally sup. children of another family, making in all one | merging them and toppling them over and pulling | Woman and pine children, Strauge as it may ap- | wown hundreds of little workshops, | Dear, no one knew who they were. THE LOSS IN CATTLE AND HORSES THE SPRING GARDEN RUN. | here ts very large, but their dead bodies lie un- About a mile out on the run a man named Wil- | noticed while ‘the search jor human remains pro- liam Peats ticu nis /amily—a wile and seven chil- gresses. Fora quarter of a mile upon the street | dren—with a clothes line in a room, fear- the lower stories oi the houses are ull of mud, at | ing that some of them in thir avarm would places to the deptn of two or three feet, and the rush irantically uway and “be lost. The | owuers, unnoticed 1n the general excitement fr- | house was saved, and with it tite entire family. | her down, went diligentiy at work torestore | Three-quarters of a wile up the run the their habitations to an inhabitable condition. | breast of the food would give @ cross section of Near Vinial street the avenue descends gradually, | four feet tn height and 250 ieet in width, and by and, sloping to the west, widens toa triangular the time it had reached the city limits it had as- space where it meets Central and O*Hara streets, sumed the sagen me of the Mill River flood, 1he and there, when tne flood came down, the vortex force of the water had carried a house bodily of ruin was reached, Just past Vintai street the | down Chestuut sireet, and it vas deposited across first of the flow trom Butcher’s Rua was | the thoroughfare below Spring Garden avenue, met and formed an eddy, and then a whirlpool _ aud tightiy wedged, making a complete barricade lollowed the meeting Debris trom the ruins of | and blockade, At Centre sireet, yesterday after- O'Hara and Concord streets, aud a miie above were | noon, a large body of meu was ehgaged clearing precipitated against the broken timbers that had | away the débris. The mud on this street was | _Jormed the tannerles and slaughter houses that | fully two feet deep, and a police tne, of rope, had bordered upon the Spring Garden Run, and, grind- | been made to prevent the passing of pedestrians, ing together, they flew round and round, the Going up Chestnut street during the afternoon water rising to the depth of twenty teet and whirl- | one o1 our reporters witnessed a sad and sorrow. | ing with such velocity tnat the street is hollowed | tng scene. It was merely a little boy; but he was out like @ basin to the depth of many feet. As the | all that was leit of a family of six persons. Around water subsided it lert the heavier “timoers piled | lim were gathered a large number of sympathiz- Upon one another hearly to thé eaves of the sur- | ing German women. The lad, upon inquiry, stated rounding houses, which, being soildly ballt and | that his name was Georgie Hoover; was seven not being subjected to a quic in, Withsteod = yeurs old. He and his parents and two brotiers the tauudation, So quick fh peen the rise of the | und a sister lived in a house at the head of tne Water here, that @ horse attached to a light buggy street. The flood came in its mad career and, io which @ gentiemau Was riding Was overtaken, | Withouta moment's warning, took their home. whiried about a jew times, and finaliy ground | His Jamily perisbed. He was in bed and floated | down by the heavy umbers. St Night the débris into the house of a Mr. Waither, where he was had not been sufficientiy cut out to admitof the rescued. The boy was apparently a bright chap, recovery of tne body of the man, but it could be anil he realized his homeless and friendiess posi- plainiy seen enveloped tu & network o! beams and tion in the world with an agony that was painiul planks, still clinging to remains of the vehicle, | to benold, which, with the body of the horse attached, was some six or eigyt ieet below the top of the rains AT BUTCHER'S RUN, Having ieft the Spring Garden Run district, a | and some distance above the surface ef the | glance over the Butcher's Kun district reveals the street, On Central and Chestnut streeta several | jact that if te loss to life ana property was fear- houses went down, one large irame being ful in the jormer tt was far more appalling in the | whirled into the middie of the street, | latter, The work of the flood in destroying life | efectually biocking & passage. Here Was | commenced here about two miles porta of Ohio | THE CULMINATION OF THE GRRAT DISASTER, street. This avenue commences at a point just Alter the contest with d work, to above the North avenue line, Where the Burchers? hurmanity’s terrible di elementor and Spring Gardens runs unite and ron into a desiruction sud away jarge sewer leading to the Alleghany River above mocking!y of to the rh through « Sycamore street. Tue Bu rs’ Run Vailey, as | easy Channels, tipping over a lew lum the mouth, ls probably between 400 aud 500 feet its way and berm hooding a fe wide, and at the point where the work of Looking at the ruins with the sun apon them, aod destruction commen it is not more than all the evidences of helping hauds so close, it 100 Jeet wide, Between North avenue and Seems strange (hat (hose Whose lives went out With this Hortherly point nomerous ravines empty Lits Doisy tae could Ho Have made their escape, themseives into the Butcher's Run Valley, ‘The fu the OUtskirts of tue town, Where Lhe houses dwellings aiong [us route Were built immediately are = scattered, apd where at any twe over the water line, and the culverts whica were were is dimen: of travel, loss ‘of life made were used as the foundations in part of Ut would be expe d, bat to the midst of @ dwelling houses. The live of the flood was marked crowded city & wholesae uly of the Kind by the nacural course o1 tue streams, and took the | would be ‘totally uniore: Few, however, | houses along i's route and many on either side, realize with woat saddenness the waters aba a number that were not in the line of tne cul- | | From the ume the frat hous destroye: risatall. When the rain commenced to tail but until the climax waa reache| ely fiteen litte apprehension was ‘elt, but suddeniy the minutes, and trom the time (1 frst cow | heavens seemed to open their flood gates aud menced to rise at O'Hara street the rain was @e- torrent came down that suddeniy inundated the | | complisned in les# than toree minates, Cons ey With @ Surging, raging torrent which took | v | everything before (he disaster, the | eriug, too, the darkness of the nigat and the | riainty of the real oatere of | fatality does notexcite «ar pris At Wood's Run the tragedy has the same features THE FORCE OF THE WATER | was so great that frame dwellings, stables and siwaghter houses gave Way like pipe stems, and of death, ruin and narrow eseape, The water first f the débris irom the wreck Were swept down along | burst IDLO revol. at (he janetion of Weat Bad ave- tue line, the Weight being augmented every mo- | | nue and the Beaver road, and from there ite fow went, West of Chestnut street and on the north Was rapid and destruct P mile | line running perailel with Norch avenue, tne water way. 8 not Tove Oa Leigh! Of Twenty leet. Ihe furce of the y elo the rive The Jocaity on the ne or the rul | thickly settled, aud the damaye, though great for | Water so great that houses were rent to the region, is not to ve com splinters and the people within them perished | localities mentioned, though | before they had the remotest idea that the terribie proportionately as great, [he same scenes flood was upon them. The con/usion was so great | perate effort sor hile a a w it Wae simply unDOsFIbie to gain facts us to tue sume tragedy W Wd and each had tos | WoW (ue dwelidus belonged that Were destro, { it of | or their value, However, vis will be remedied | pon ‘s. » to-day, When the wilitie goon daty ip the district, , pp oin the Thirty. sod whi aid in Dringing Order out of chaos, | | fourth and Thirty-sixth wards, the same story can | THE Orme OF THE TORRENT, | Fangactoy tied wud nsth cae ast | maschd SMaunmee her” satis tae, Gas teapes. mm tae 8 in bi directions | lentes sad oursousen rein stthowe Gmelin, splinters. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1874.--FRIPLE. SHEET. two children, drowned and the dwelling was crushed to 8 @ description of the comes the same tale, dreadfullygnew and startiing | occupied by Mr, Henry Martin and his family, n , sisting of a wife an con: family Mr. John Winkler’s wis the next house struck, ‘The family saw that the fooa was endany | their barn and their housed, Mr. the pier, had filled all the lower rooms. r called for assistance, Win! could reach she was @ was the dw neu elling occupied by Mr. John Shearing. tock, which was tl Sere inkler and his brocher started out to save the nouses, Mrs, Winkier remained tn the house, and in less than five minutes alterwards her the building led. Still but bei Mrs. fore it gave way, and iurther southward AS soon e8 the waters commenced rising Mr. Shearing moved bis family, consisting of his wile and twin no; side, in what The children the little sell rolled over an em By Was supposed to be a were nesving sovind | a3 aroised by the s.orm, and bankment into the angry flood lows wi aged about four years, to the bill | lace of safety. , but one below and was drowned, his body being recovered thia morning, The large glass works on Madison avenue next fell PREY TO THE TORRENT. A und was completely destroyed. A short distance below the factory stood tne residence of August | Ryko and his family. ‘The house was a small one, and the waters swept down upon it while the family were unaware of it, and the dwelling was occupants, The body of carried Mrs, Irom its littie foundation with Rykot, bruised and bleeding, Was rescued a few biocks below, but both of children, one a little girl aged three years, named | Emma, and Mary, aged one year, were drowned, | imma Was iound yesterday ts tue morning among some débris which had jormed a gorge aloug the plank road, about 200 yards below the site occupied by the dwelling of ‘the family. Below here bast street and Madison avenue inte t, aud at this point the water appeared to hay de a deviation, but each branch carried terror and havoc with it lu its course. Bec! ma Jatter point nue seemed to Intersect each deviate, destruction with East street other. Her it, In @ but each branch triangular strapea Just below this and Madison ave- the waters carried house at the intersection of the streers named, residvd Mrs. Conlon, a widow, who had three chil- dren—one boy hamed Archy Arnold and ancther, and two girls, A young a “cripple, man named Joun Rogers, were in the house at the ume. Neil Conion, were lost. PERISHED WHILE YING TO SAVE OTHERS. Archie Arnold resid¢d av No. 248 Madi: Was bienty-two years of age. jeed hia horses, nue and had gone an id witer coming bravely attempted he perished recovered ye: To a stable to that, having seen and having visited Mrs, save the children, and his body was His late to with them, sterday morning. the Conlon, The entire number, with the excepuon of g00 Aves He storm he bat home, which stauds intact, save that the steps leading vo it are goue, Was draped in mourningand seemed | akipg monument amid devastation aud Puey were placed, aiter being cofiined, in like a s run. the Sandusky street Baptist church, irom whence the funeral wili take place av bali-past two o’clock this witernoon, ‘The body of the boy Rogers had not been recovered up to last evening. A vluck below the intersection of Madison avenue and East street the waters azaim formed a union and swept down with @ mighty jorce to the lower land below. it seemed now to have attained a terrific fury and | 5) came down Concord, O'Hara aud a portion of | Chestnut street. ‘The course of the floud took in a swathe of peruaps 200 feet wide and mowed its way through brick and frame building: like grass before tue mower’s scythe. was mixed up ina MASS OF CONFUSION AND DEBRIS. | Houses, stables, worksyops und other buildings were intermiualy throwa together, and human remains and the carcasses 0: cattle and horses: Were turown in with them, only making tne Beene more startling and tearful, literated in the confused were entirely tne streets’ ‘Tae residence Oi Alderman Bolster, 01 Street, & brick house, Was crashed, and one of us | children, aged four years, was arowned, tne rest of the jamily escaping, jamiy of Mr. James Fuchs, consisting 6 hich fel Bverytuiug | O'Hi On the same street tne his wie lines | SCENE | in the Thirvy-tiftn ter. Besides having their to a considerable depth, entire works feodé their receiving tank, undermined by the rusulng water, toppled over aud is any. h a foll month to entirel, and at least a week before the street lumps with loss at some $0,000 or $8, Unuing up the stream the p badly damaged. ; the land made the joss more severe, anc it 18 worthy of note that the entire loss of occurred above here, ‘Th gas. An oficer of the com- stated to our reporter fiat It would take ly repair the damages, they can supply ever iney estimate their From this point con. peculiar topography of y indeats ie e stream! was shut in by high hills on either hand, while from al steep sides pidly augmentin creek, and converted {rom ten to twenty eet in Wag “he flood formed little time was afturded to poured the now it. into @ perfect torrent of that but scant swift flood ‘tully fowing aow! depth, and so rapid warning and those living on tte bunks to escape. Probably we report to-day but @ Portion of the actual toss Of lite aud property. TAYLOR'S SALT e and completely fitted ich was but finished 02 ala of wi WORKS, up concern, and par! Saturday last, is en Urely gone, and but a few shattered timbers re: main, and a smal! heap of ruins marks where it stood. About two hundred yards jurther up a large store, Owned by a Mr. Zeigler. was complet i ly washed away—not a vestige of itremaining. His loss is heavy, reaching tully $10,000, Here another bridge crosses the run, aud @ few s all that a4 leit. An oil refiner | Mr, Zeigier’s store, waa oneitank, two stills, o af It was owned by Brooks, ghastly work of the di here. About noon the bod named Miss Sample was ri tne broken timbers of the ¢ mines, 50) im, and had eviden: iuerable distance, a8 si sawmill Ball un the I 180 badiy dam mdenser tank, worm, & distance ered timbers are pearly opposite ged, ieee lantine & Co, But the itroyer was also manilested y Of @ young woman ‘emoved from amon: bridge, she lived a further the carried tly been a he was badly bruised. Iroaa Company are undoubted) heaviest losers by the terripie calamity. ‘Their track is probably five miles tong, and over one- hair or itis built on trestlework, cressing the run im many places. Over one-' destroyed ana the timbers © seven cars and otners of. completely destroyed. But 2 aT THE SC ward was ofall, Four victims of the iu their Iast louz. sleep. with SiR strongly built m was ‘'homas Britton, At ti alt Of this is enti: arried away, Twenty. as rolling stock are 'HOOLHOUSE perhaps the saddest catastrophe lay here Near tue door, covered Qs Were ull the rest, lay the body of n, Who evidently struggled nar betore he yielded to the grim destroyer, ‘ His name he other end of the room, with his ace sadly disfigured by the timbers and stones which had struck him, lay his son, a youth about twelve or tourte: Witte Britton, By his (Willie's) side was en years ol age, named of alittle gir! witn loug, goluen hair, looking aa calmly beantifui as if she asieep, Her name was Maj had but just Jaiten geie Hunter, and her lather and mother and three brothers are stil | missing, and are doubtless also drowned, the avor lay the body of Mrs, and four chiidren are still missing, 3 life lusts shail we forget the little schoolhouse or the Toirty-Hftn ward, aNXtous 1c ing gla 8 Of Sorrow On Nearer Thrap. Her husband Never as long The crowds of sad, sgainered in and out of the building, the unconscious faces the silent dead, while just within hearing the ream, bow butsmall, went quickly past. At the Welch Houxe two more bodies were recovered, Josep Connor aod his hou Dil, Said a gentleman to ‘They were those of a man named usekeeper, Mra, Betsy our reporter :—‘Poor Junnor; I 8aw him Saturday evening; he told me | he had been working all the week in bis nouse fix- ing it up, and he didn’t think he should bother with anyi@ing any more; and now there isn’t @ stone of found them last night; she arm, and his shirt was t clatehed it; she held | they were ‘both and cud, aod Joseph, a brotuer of Mrs. Fuchs, | perished when tuelr home was wrecked, Not one of the bodies bat been discovered up to last evening. sletzer, wile a ad two children, Tn an adjoining dweiling lived Jacob | All but one chiid perished, and the vodies of the three persons were | recovered yesterday morning. At the intersection of Chestnut street and Spring Garden avenue the water nad gaiwed a ievel of fully twenty Jeet, but the force of 1t seemed to have been not suilicient), great to move the buildings. A large frame butld- ing, used as a beer hail, was moved from its foun- | @&uon and Was floated across the street. ALONG MADISON AVENUE the water bad made and torn away the sewer, deep guily in the street Inco this men had gone with lighted candies, to discover the remains of people that must have perished there. and woman werg found, and they were immedi- | ately carted to an undertaker's. Coroner Mca lin was early upon tue scene, but he only held one inquest, on Mrs, Britton, whose found ip the sixtu ward and af:erward ‘taken to Taggart’s undertaking rooms. A FEARFUL BEREAVEMENT, Mrs, J. Pructing resides at No. 208 Ohio street. Mrs, Josepa Schueppert was her sister. her husv; avenue, A man | mains were She und id and ilve children lived on Madison ‘he flood swept them out o! existence, and up to lest evening Mr. Schneppert’s remains and those o1 two of the children were recovered, | Mrs. Pratting was neariy crazy uuder the weignt of her sudden and /eartul vereave went. undertaking took plac avitshments some pal tends O! parties lost or supposed At the to be lost came in search of them. At Fairman & Voght'’s, on Sandusxy strect, thirty-two bodies | were jying last evening. Among them was a Mrs. Leopoie with her tour ehtidren, from twenty mouths to seven years of age. Cpon the intant’s jace @ tranquil smile rested, as ii the bave nad jalien to sleep laughing, aud it seemed as thougn had never wakened to meet its | the inmocent doom. BURIALS OF THE DEAD, Funerals are announced to-day of families of eizht persons, to ve buriea at one time. ia themseives tell their own tate. Huinagle Were ouried yesterday aiternoon irom Voght's undertaking estabiisnment. A Work who 18 employed on this side of tue river, w: | carpenter shop, All these | Mr. and Mrs. work on Sunday wigat in tuis city, and repaired home to Aliegheny yesterday morning, his late home turned on end and his wile and sev- | eral children missing. Hi le wound He was so discouraged toat he had pot the heart to go to the undertakers 10 look uy some of Mis lo: st dear ones. VISITING THE SCENE. mm the remains, for fear of identtiying A fair estimate of the number of persons that visited the se not put it iess than that the wate: boys amused the: ma ene of « ,000 persons, r had made Vasiation yesterday would Th the gullies in the rained districts eives by playing with raits and ing light of things generally, in one place on Maaison uvenne, where a beer hail was the only place lett staqling, and that badiy damaged, the uid was dispensed to the | bibulously luclined yesterday aiternoon. Order Was not well matntained, and whenever a it was bein, made it more Just above t of the torrent itself, A large 80. THE SOUTH SIDE. he e ool work | body was discovered ond placed ta a wagon and Zz taken to the undertaker’: @ large crowd would follow it, sometimes including men and women and children hooting and yelling. The sight in itself was fegyiul and sad enough, but this mithtield strect bridge the fect Ing down the steep hills shows: Mm Was busy all day yesterday In remoying the immense quautities of debris that eight ‘to ten fect. had been washed | own upon street, filling it in some places to the depth of frum Messrs. Knox, Kim & Uo, were the among the heaviest suferers from the torrent, their works, street, dwelling having a stones « Washed houses | their cellars noodec | siderabie private joss and inconvenience. | heaviest damage Was vone to their soda house, situated larae guantity in upon ~ therm, belonging to the of immediately below dirt ana A number of | firm 1, and (he inmates suttered con had Abott a mile further up the brauch, Just below Harkay’s loss of life is reported. It is by miners. One large block @ short distance irom the “long row,” was STRUCK with terrible effect. e bu in two by the stroke, ‘ell t to be seen, and there he ts, We had fast hold of his orn where sne had to him tightly, ror lying side by side, dead.’? Little Saw Mill Rua coal works, @ tearful quite thickly sestled of houses on the hill, Ran, Known a3 the LIGHTNING, dings, literally splut over into the raglo; torrent below. Twenty-seven persons are repot missing from this run alone, Other persons from tne sa algo lost, but it is imposai fell particulars. Just work crosses the str déoris trom further up oe damming the waters t eet. ui, In an instant it gave way, and are douotiess lost. me neignborhood are wie now to give the below here a large trestle and. the timoers and sre found temporary lodg- 0 & height of twenty id the immense body of water rushed with ua irresistible force on its pathway of destruction, of Sa’ also ere. mill Run, known as tne Here were drowned ‘‘nomas Smith, the other branch ig Kun, the los3 ig “i his wife and three culldrem—a whole tamily swept away in a moment. Among otier losses the toil elzewhere, are reported :—A. owing, not mentioned smail house velong- ing to Stephen Sample, a sma@il saioon known as tae Miners’ Hall, a house o! f George Alsop, two slaughter houses of Wiliam Archivaid, a viock of four houses belonging to a Mr. Patton, Bell suiter heavily, having 1 amount of lumber and torty blacksmith shop, Gray & lost their coal tipplt considerab: or fiity coal cars. T we awelling houses, belonging to Mr. Gumble, adjoim- ing the Store of Mr. /1egier, mentioned elsewhere, were badlv damaged, the rear part of the builaings and lots betug washed away. staple, with eight ho covered two of the hoi new city station house ts als THE UPPER PORTION Yesterday afternoon @ re; ‘he foundation jor the jo badly damaged. OF THE CITY, porter of this journas Mr. J. Haier had a 3, washed away, but re» 100k a trip through the hill wards of this city, and althongh the time employe: d was insutficient tor accurately» reviewing the situation, noticing the Mul effect of the storm and estimating the di: done tu thet section, yet It loss incurred to, the city, 01 and to owners ‘of property will be heavy ta tue Was eviaent th: to street cont aggregate. ‘The city will by all odds the heaviest loser, the contractors for the various street improvements now io progress will come is next, while the aamage dove. to private trivated, aud, with a few eXceptions, will Mot fall heavily On any of the owners. has ulready been noted in the work of the waters in the hil property is widely dis- 'n addition to what panes: conceraing i diztrict, the re- this porter discovered that on most of the streets they must have rushed down wit! a force that 1s truly astonishing. ‘n an impetuosity and On Wyle and Webster avenues, townsend, Clark, Fulton, Price, Reed, vrawiord. Dinwiddie cobble stones, many of th used Jor paving purposes, the current and carried to Attwoor three piaces on Washington, there are grea! were excavted on Fulton street, enue, trom Fulton as lar and other streets the em of the largest size have been upliited by points squares below. Wylle avenue, nei heaps of stones fl On Webster av- down as the eye can reach, gullies have been suuk three or four feet deep and as many in width, ton and Webster the thick At the corner of Ful and heavy stones laid for @ crossing have been Washed out and carried some distance irom their ancient moorings. This ineident alone Juily shows with what frigntiul ve- lovity the-waters mast have poured down Webster avenue, and thence down seventh avenue, the na- morning. At the coruer Fulton an opening has be ol the damage to which was pointed out yeste! oi Centre avenue en made about toirty | feet long, ten teet wide and five or six feet deep. On both of the thoroughfares fast named celiare were filled with water by the torrent, which poured. down like the carrent of a mighty river. but the | where over $15,009 worth of soda was stored, This was completely covered with dirt, stones and rab- bish of ever Tuined itis at present in loss will not be I Railroad Com firm state thi $15,000, The were also c dirt and railroad, moving it as | PROC! | cellars and nume: and windows came rolling With considerable torce 18 true of hot aw Mul Run empues | into the Monongahela, a general appearance of plainly among steep hillsiae | this point down to where discomfort sh They had a fore ¥ deseriptt at their Castle St OS possi broken Vie sain howl itseli very DING DOWN CARSON STRERT, | the effects were piainiy visibie in washed ont Tous gullies, iorimed by the rush e . peny jderably damaged by the amount of ones Washed Mpuu their coal ripple and of men and teams re- ot water, ‘The large brick row of houses owned | by Gra, Bennett & Co, suffered consiaerably by | having the basements filed with water and doors by detached stones, that own the 4 from those who had been visited vy the murky Mud. But at | the really terri | torrent of waters ber SAW MILL RUN and devastating nature of the ne more apparent, and the | Scene of actual and sudden desowmton met tt eye, The bridge crossing tne run at this pot and but recently finisned, has been swept ww. | nota timber leit remaining, while the | the stream has so fa urrent of widened its usual channel that it has Washed away jts banks almost to the very foundatic Handle Kailrc on ot th vad. dust b coal boat landing, and here pegins our sad for this sectior the body of a litt RECORD OF MORTALITY n. rubbish that had accumulated here, once removed aged about eight year braised and to che disfigured, About three It jong iron bridge of the Pan pw tits was Brown's About twelve o’ciock yesterday irl Was found imbedded in the was at A ice of Alderman Thompson, Where it was recognized as that of Ida McVa) The body was very muc o'clock anotner body was found here which was thought to be that of Mr. finding or thi: ofa woman oj her nume we | down the river, near cork’s Run, eVay was reco te side e ost the oppd are unable to ascertain® Further short time before the ered the body the river, but Wo more bodes were removed during the alternoon, but were Un- recognized. SAD EVIDENCES OF THE RAIN. Proceeding ip Saw Mill Run one was surprised at the evidence of the irresistible force of the tor- vent. Ever, bridges and trestiework ali went down mighty at the West Pittsburg Gi te to be Wi eith and a considerabie Fs, went eavy substantial stractar with wi tl ything thavat ail opposed its course WAS SWept UWay in a moment. Soren ncabies, tore its ower as if they were put toys. The bridge ry Works, ‘a new Mc oy a tried The water on Lie streets ros é to the height of two or three teet, driving ahead with the velocity of the wind, ‘the new sewer Ewens & Orr, contractors, on Dinwiddie street, ef which 300 feet was completed and covered, was washed out, aud 100 Jeet of bottom was eattrely closed up with aliu- vial deposit, und will baye to be entirely recon. structed, entailing a loss water n Was also broken. Havin, Minersville, Center dilapidated appearance thai of about $1,500. The & DESTRUCTION AT MINERSVILLE, passed Kirkpatrick street on the road to nue begins to present a more many Osner of the bill streets, and until the car stables are reached sad havoc has been made with jences and other k had been torn up ma t workmen have been sent to repair it at two o'clock Cars were hot prevented from in the morning. bridges, board waiks, Improvements, The horse car number of places, but making regalar trips «during the day. A number of telegrapa poles were torn out io the vicinity of the Thirteenth ward school house and the wires proken. ‘The line was being set to righis ¢ Jaciities jor communication layed. Berween the senu wes, board be 1 will be neavy around quite promiscuously. luring the day and the will not long be de- olhouse and the cas i Walks and a namber foors of the houses in the vatiey, and the inmates were obliged to avoid a watery grave seeking security outside their domiciies, Uenry sede, ving in Crawiord’s row, had ail his household goods, save & few es Of turniture, swept away and destroyed. ‘tne residences of Mrs, Cook, Mr. Endres wi will be © naiderabie, Mr. W . Cornelis aud Squire ¢ iiled with water, and tue loss of each tiiam M, Gormly prob ably lured as badly a8 any of the residents of the Taitteenth ward, his fences the first Noor of tis nonse bel qnantity of debris duding butidiug. A firge portion of ol Wylie avenue, Which had taken from the deep cut Was carried across Ce piled up against the Windless to the depth The cellar of Irwin & Hil all being swept away, ng filled, and a large lodgmeut against the the tll at the mouth been made irom dirt in the hill ubove, nter avenue ane residence of = Mr. of several feet, lerman’s grocery was filled, and # quantity of goods were thus lost by the firm, ‘The stails in tue washed out, and the water 8 feet upon the floor. car stables were aij tood some four or five it was found necessary to taxe ull the almmals out upon the street, where they were kept daring th could not be used on Sanday night. equent to the storm the fi taken to the stables. One of that te water was high eno! dashboard ali along the line at sou the flood ar the marks of beveral leet of eartn irom to have been carried away, aud ened, so that it will in al the declivity, McCabe's house Jorce with which earts and O86 it Jacob Kini tents, consisting On the low bad @ higit, a8 the stalls During and cars were stopped in ut of the school house, as they could not be the drivers asserted ugh to flow over the ol Center avenue, io re as plainiy visible op | either side of Filth avenue as at Minersville, Carte aud horses be'ongiag 10 contractors were swe} down Gazzan street agwiust the Futh avenue Bll: the horses were, however, saved irom drowning. ¢ lower aide of the Dull more has been lous probaoiltty lide down side of Fiith avenue wrecked Poe th er ay.