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A SERIOUS ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.--
A gentleman residing at Wortham, in Norfolk, named Balls,
on returning from Harleston Market, fell from his horse, and
sustained•so serious an illness in consequence, that all his
hair came off. He was perfectly bald. His friend, the Rev.
Mr. Daniel,' offered him a wig as a temporary substitute;
and in the meantime he tried very fortunately the effects of
Rowland's Macassar Oil. What was the consequence? Part
of a bottle produced the re-growth of a thick and luxuriant
head of hair, with (what the first or original growth had not)
a beautiful tendency to curl. This is a very striking instance
of efficacy from the fact of the debility which preceded the
restoration.— Observer.

" WHERE IGNORANCE IS Buss."--There are now
nearly 20,000 Chinese in California. " When a customer
calls," says the New York Tribune, " they exhibit wonderful
expertness in comprehending his want and arranging a
bargain. But the tax-collector avers that he cannot by any
possible means make them understand his Visits."

HOLMFIRTII, FRIDAY.—This terrible and destructive
catastrephe, one of the most appalling that has ever
happened iu this part of the country, was not at all ex-
aggerated in the accounts previously given. A more
complete wreck, a more melancholy scene than Helm-
firth presents to the thousands who have visited it, has
never been beheld. The shops left standing are all
closed—the streets knee-deep in mud, and filled with
broken furniture, carding machines, huge iron boilers,
bags of wool, while the graveyards have their dead
dislodged, and their dread contents borne again to the
doors of the living. Altogether the scene is one of
heart-reeding misery; numbers, who retired to rest the
night before last in comfortable circumstances, now find
themselves homeless, penniless, and so far as their im-
mediate relatives are concerned, friendless.
The confusion and uncertainty is still so great that it
is impossible to ascertain the number of persons who
have perished, but from all that we can learn, about 60
bodies have been recovered, and it is thought that at
least 40 more are missing. The exact number cannot,
however, be ascertained for some days. Some of the
bodies, as stated yesterday, have been found a distance
of many miles from the scene of the disaster.
Before proceeding further with our narrative of this
most disastrous event, it may enable our readers to be
better able to comprehend the nature of the catastrophe,
if we describe with more accuracy than yesterday the
position of the reservoirs and the nature of the locality.
liolaifirth is about seven miles from Huddersfield,
and is approached by the Huddersfield aed Penistone
Railway. The town is built in a deep valley, having im-
mense ranges of hills on each side, and at the lowest
level, in a somewhat circuitous course through the centre
of the town, winds the river Holtne, which is crossed at
different points by four stone bridges, called the Bridge,
Thong's Bridge, Victoria Bridge, and Upper Bridge.
From Holmfirth through the valley of the Holme for a
distance of several miles, amongst almost Alpine moun-
tains, run deep ravines, with scarcely an outlet for three
or four miles, when they terminate on vast tracts of
moorland. Upon the bed of these vast ravines runs a
strong mountain stream, which is increased, as it rushes
on from the moors, by the streamlets which fall down
the hill sides, until it reaches Holme Bridge, where it
empties itself in the river Holme, which passes
through Holmfirth. On each side of this river are
erected numerous scribbling and fulling mills along the
whole course of the valley, built there with the view of
taking advantage of the water power which this water
course furnishes. As the supply of water in droughty
weather is inadequate for the purposes required, the
idea was conceived of storing the element in huge re-
servoirs at the top of the highest hills, and it was to
the bursting of one of these reservoirs that the present
frightful destruction of life and property is attributable.
The " Holme reservoirs" are three in number, and are
formed at the top of the hills, some distance from each
other. They are called the Bilberry," " the Holm-
stye." and " the Bawshaw" reservoirs. They were made
uuder the authority of an Act of Parliament passed in
1840 ; and constructed under the superintendence of
Mr. Leather, C.E., of Leeds. The cost of the whole
was 70,0001. or more, 40,0001, of which was raised in
scares, and the other 30,000/. on mortgage of the works,
the company of shareholders having power to lay rates
upon the mill-owners using the water. As a pecuniary
speculation the undertaking has proved a failure, owing
in part, it is said, to heavy law expenses. The par-
ticular reservoir which has caused the present
destruction is " the Bilberry," It is situated three
miles from Holmfirth, at the foot of the Moors,
which extend from the Yorkshire and Cheshire hills,
and terminate in a bluff or hill, called " Good Bent."
The reservoir lies between two hills, called Hobrook-
hill and Lion•bank, the former of which forms its north,
and the latter its south boundary. The water for this
reservoir is supplied by the confluence of two streams at
the foot of " Good Bent" bluff, which drain the vast
extent of moorland in that district for many miles. The
embankment to form the other side of the reservoir is
constructed a little lower down, where the valley or
ravine widens, and by this means, with two natural em
bankments, and the one alluded to, a vast reservoir is
formed with a surface of eleven acres or more. The
depth is said to have been eighty-four feet. The surplus
water was carried away by a tunnel, running under the
reservoir, communicated with by a funnel or chimney,
in the centre of the reservoir,, worked by means of a
shuttle. This shuttle, it has been alleged, has latterly
become unworkable, preventing the surplus water from
being let out, and as the heavy rains have very much
tilled the reservoir, its weight acting upon what has
tong been considered an insecure embankment, the lat-
ter suddenly gave way, and the waters pent up rushed
down the ravine, and along the valley of the Holme,
with a force which must have been perfectly resistless.
As we have intimated, the embankment of the reser-
voir has always, from being leaky, been regarded as un-
sate, and from time to time rumours have been circulated
in Holmfirth that it was likely to give way. The com-
pany's servants were watching it on Wednesday, and, in
consequence of something that transpired, the whole of
the families connected with the Dighley Mill, which is
near the reservoir, fortunately removed the night before.
Had they not done so, there would doubtless have been
a serious addition to the present fearful loss of life. The
premises consisted of a mill 14 yards square and four
stories high; a weaving shed, with 34 power looms at
work; steam-engine and water power; two superior
dwellieg-houses, one occupied by Mrs. Hirst (widow of
the late Mr. George Hirst), and family, and the other by
Mr. Henry Beardsall; also cottages and numerous out-
buildings; making altogether quite a small town. These
premises stood in a widish part of the valley, but not far
from a curve in the valley, and when our reporter visited
the place yesterday, there was literally not one stone left
upon another; the whole buildings were swept away,
with the exception of a tall engine chimney, round the
base of which still gurgled the still foaming and angry
waters. A more complete destruction cannot be imagined.
The engine was carried to a considerable distance down
the stream, where it remains imbedded in the mud. The
rumours which induced the parties at Dighley to re-
move were current in Holmfirth the same evening, but
unfortunately the inhabitants, from often having heard
similar reports, disregarded them, and retired to rest,
hoping that all would be well. The waters burst their
barrier a little after one o'clock yesterday morning, and,
from the appearances which everywhere present them-
selves, must have swept everything before them with
most terrific force. From concurrent statements, it
would seem as if the whole body of accumulated waters
tumbled down the valley together in ono vast over-
whelming mass. Their passage down to Holmfirth,
distance of three miles, occupied less than half an hour,
and in rather more than an hour they had receded from
the houses. In consequence of the narrowness between
the bluffs on either side, a vast volume of water was
kept together, to spend its force upon Holmfirth, after
which it got more into the open country (which was
very much under water the whole of yesterday), all the
way down to Honley, Armitage-bridge, Huddersfield,
and even below Mirfield.

Taking, then, the reservoir as our starting point, we
will now proceed to give some details of the sad havoc
which it has made.

A few hundred yards below the reservoir stood a small
building two storeys high, called Bilberry Mill. It was
in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Broadhead, and used
as a scribbling and dressing mill. This was built on one
side, and rather out of the direct course of the torrent,
us it rolled in its leviathan proportions down the valley.
The end of the mill was caught by the sudden swell,
and about ten feet length and its gable washed down the
valley. A man at this mill stated that he witnessed the
overflow of the embankment when the ordinary channel
out of the reservoir had become two small for the out-
pouring—that the water rolled over the embankment
until a large breadth and depth had been washed away,
and then the puddlebank and the inner lining of the re-
servoir to the depth of fifty feet gave way in one im-
mense body, and down went masses of rock weighing
several tons, and everything else that offered the slight-
est obstacle to its onward course.
At a short distance down the valley, and on the same
side as Bilberry Mill, stood Digley Upper Mill, lately
occupied by Mr. John Furniss, woollen manufacturer,
whose affairs are now in the hands of the Leeds Bank-
ruptcy Court. This building was a block of stone
work, consisting of a factory, a large house, with farm
building and outhouses. The end of the mill is washed
away, a quantity of machinery, and a large amount of
property in the shape of pieces, warps, &e., destroyed,
and the gable end of the house, which is comparatively
new, and the whole of the farm-buildings swept away.
In the latter were twelve tons of hay, three mulch
cows, a horse, a goat, and several heads of poultry,
which were carried down the stream. In the house
was Mrs. Furniss and her two children, and in a bed in
one of the chambers were two messengers from the
Bankruptcy Court. They were alarmed at the rapid
rise of the water about half-past twelve o'clock, and left
the house. One of the messengers, named William
Crampton, had barely time to put his clothes on, and get
to the rising ground, before the final burst took place.
Lie had to wade up to the middle in water before he
ti;onkuelel land on terra firma. Mrs. Furniss says she saw the
bursting of the bank, and describes it as the rising of
irmevmerebnesrestsihnegetthoe,fndmerist, accompaniedii by a sound
a factory had been confined. to
tandhi.. be with his familythreenlainedebincmditlbilfeoerr housese nl
Vaetedeoknas:,
injury, when
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vae ydll e I ofy) personal
orasion(g) without sustaining
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narrows
hills, and here stood
Digley Mill, upwards of 60 yards below, the
were rescued in a cart.
A. short distance, perhaps they
.a lofty
substantial stone-built factory,3
rdtsosquare. This was a
an attic used as workshcps abave. uritstories high, with
large water-wheel (as were the two mil
use driven by a
dolled), and a st before na
emu-engine. The property ' this
en.
was lately valued at upwards of 12,000/, of mill
andin
the hands of the executors of its late owner, it
".8
Hirst. The whole of this mill,
with extensiveM rfa G.
buildings, and seven cottages, were swept down with the
the
torrent, and with them four valuable cows, and a horse
worth forty guineas. Fortunately,
the inmates of the
seven cottages escaped with their lives.
Bank End Mill was the next building in the valley.
Its gable end and one window from the top to the bottom
of the building washed away. The lower rooms are

ritiehsmachinery in the upper
completely gutted, and
stove, about sixty yards long,t
stories thrown together
aim The dye-house and
leaving nothing of theca
The valley then widens, above the ground.
ererev
This property belonged to mran John
una
in'ildeihte
reaches
t el: yo
Holm-bridge,
-b destroyed,ridg e ,
place is crossed by a bridge of one
ohn Roebuck.
a small village composed of few hundred inhabitants.
Thu stream at this
arch, about 40 yards on
and about the same distance
Holm-bridge Church, in the centre side of which stands
Inside the centre of a graveyard,
a tollgate and a number of ..in the other side stands
founda-
tions of the bridge dwelliegs. The
ashed completely bare.
The wall surrounding the
uprooted and carried down thee stream. The interior of
church was swept away by
the torrent, and the few tree
floating, and the floor coveredailding
planted in the yard were
about five feet. The floor wasrd aeon presented a most
the church and the grave
awful spectacle.
seve-
ral inches thick. In the cent
body of a goat that had been with sand and mud torn up —the pews were
re of the aisle was laid the
the water had risen
mill, and within a few feet
one of the pews, lay the remain!' resting
of it,
from Upper Digley
taming the remains of a full grown
uaisldtin
relics, with others not yet found, had top of the stairs leading into th
hkof'asriotm the reservrol neacnd-
from their gravenskhoyf thethe whirlpools . B obtehe
been
thesee as h humanedn p
.the' churchyard. The
road
dg
acnudrrefinett
and other substances,
downwards are still
ge masses of stone reservoir
had been formed.
covered viverheiedhwtihtelibhau
stream was more con-
fineddwaos vPtch°ellBl fe
Q'rx
t alplace yr
etaheeh ehde head-
long
Upper-Millpasse
formedea r ly
the rushing
in
its
channela•a te r,
b
the devastation was immense, and the
on its edge,
a ._ gallery_
infant,
lose la
on
fa atelhin°fedffie seat
the
•
derable. Six houses, whichhnd
airtrater-street, were
he inmates hurled down by the flood,
perish-
ed.
The dwellings in this neighbourhood
were in some cases flooded into the chkazt washed down
not
and in one
of them—the endmost left standingoethere were 16 in-
dividuals, who saved their lives by
,getting
joining roof. In one of them all the on an ad-
inmates were
drowned. Their names are James elooth
and his wife,
and a lodger named William Healey, In
the same block
of buildings the wife of Joseph Brews, clothier, while
endeavouring to save herself and child,
p
infant in her arms The following is alztished with her
of the occu-
pants of the houses that were taken down at
Mill, as nearly as could be asertained Pram Hinchliffe
the neigh-
bours, who were all busy with mops, buckets, and bar-
rows. clearing their houses from the r
flood :—The first house was occupied by Miss
of the
ls Marsden
and three others; the second by JosephDodd, steam-
tenter' his wife, and two children; the third by Jonathan
Crossland and seven others; the fourth by James Mef-
ternich, clothier, and nine others; the fifth b
Joshua
Earnshaw, master clothier, his little girl, and by Joshua
sons;
and the sixth by John Charlesworth, clothier, and nine
others—out of the whole of whom only seven were
saved, leaving thirty-two to be accounted for.
New Inn, at Hinchliffe Mill, seven of the bodies of At the
those
who were drowned in their houses were laid 011 The
damage in the mill seemed to have been confined to the
lower story, the windows of which, and those of the se-
cond story, are blocked with broken machinery, heavy
pieces of timber and furniture.
The cowry grows wider below this point, and in the
centre of a wide valley stands Bottom's Mill. From the
open country here offering little resistance to the stream,
this factory, which is a very large one, sustained
com-
paratively only
trifling damsee.
In a cotthee on the hill-side opposite to Bottom's
Mill was laicrthe son of James Metternich, of Hioehiltye
Mill, just mentioned, from whom we obtained the fol-
lowings statement. Ho is about 24 years of age. He
id—There were ten of us in our house, my father,a
step-mother, and eight children. Somebody came and
roused us just atter one o'clock. I put on my trousers.
My step-mother and I stood on the stairs. We looked
out of the windows and saw a large quantity of water
and
sticks coming down. From their appearance we
knew the reservoir had burst. I and my step-mother
came down stairs, then stood on the stairs, and my fa-
ther handed us the children who were asleep in the
house for us to lift into the chamber. The water burst
In at the window and through the door, filled the lower
room and half filled the chamber. I ran with the
resteh into the garret, except my father and one child,
ewe
expected were drowned in the house.
About
half a minute after we had got into the
garret the whole house gave way, and we were all
swept down the stream, and I saw no more of
any of
them. No
part of the house touched me that I know
.". When I got into Harpen's (Bottom's) dam I caught
nod of a piece of wood and sprang up. I got a sob of
lbreath, and then went under the water and lost my hold
of the plank ; on coming up again I got hold of an-
other and again rolled over; at last I got hold of a large
piece of timber and kept my hold. I got hold of a
small piece of wood and paddled it towards the aide.
gust of wind then came and blew m,tetowards the land
A
on the Austonley side. I leaped off the a , andimber tell
I
up to my neck in water, but manageil-
of scramb_le out
of the water, and after falling several tunes I got into
Hannah Barry's, and stripped my grousers and
shirt
(all I had on) and went to bed. I was nearly exhausted.
The next building in • the
valley is Victoria Mill,
which had sustained little damage beyond the
disar-
rangement and partial breakage • of the machinery in
the lower story. In the yard of
this factory three
houses were swept away, but a
Within a stone's throw (3
lives
lost.
ef Victoria Mill stands
Dyson's Mill, which was
occupied Mr.
Jonathan
Sandford. In the yard of the factoryby
Mr. Sandford re-
sided. His house was swept
taken himself, his two children, away, and with it were
ree, and his servant. The
and ma
factory
chinery. also sustained very serious damage in its walls
Prockleton, or Farrar's ‘ U
large dyehouse of which was completely
Mill, is the next, the
ihese
were the property of
enapletely destroyed, with
its huge pans and fixtures.
Mr. John Farrar. The factory
Mill is situate a litt known as the Lower
le lows
was built across the
stream. The torrent carried' end
the greater portion of the
factory along with it, leaving only the two ends standing.
woollen material, and is theth valuable machinery and
Farrar. In the factory yard two property of Mr. Hobson
cock were drowned, and a two children named Wood-
was discovered dead. little further down a third
At the George Inn, near this
recovered from the place, nine bodies, prin-
cipallystream are now laid,
Amongst them were Jonathan Crossland, of Hinchliffe
been taken out at Upperg Zan, the latter of whom had
tightly wedged into the wallill, where he had been so
work to drag him out. that two men had hard
Amongs these unfortunates was
a woman named Hellawen ,
had been taken out of a hen" her three children. They
house within 30 yards of the
George Inn.
Coming from Mr. Farrar's d
a place called Scar Fold, whereyehouse to Holmfirth, is
Heil-
well, his wife, and two children, a person named Hell-
water burst into the house til resided. When the
wife and child were both eY were all in bed, and his
the top of his loom,where drowned.h_ Hellwell jumped to
fortunately the water did 7:inert-owl-
y escaped death, for,
and ho remained on his pr °t quite reach the ceiling,
sided. The warehouse of precarious perch until it sub-
the same locality, was filled r' John Haigh, grocer, in
utted. His loss will be from with water, and entirely
gof Mr. James Charlesworth, 300 a to 4001. The house
branch of the Huddersfild 13 manager of the Holmfirth
the house of Mr. Haigh, and inking Company, adjoins
two houses was washed away,partitin between tha
The shop of a cooper, named but no lives were lost.
At the end of Upper Brid a aldwell, was also gutted.
gable end to the bridge—thgat were two houses, with a
being occupied by Enor Bailey,nearest the river Holtne
two children. The wails or 1 his mother, wife, and
were swept off, and Bailey's h attlernente of the bridge
down, and the inmates and fuel's° was entirely
-washed
river. Bailey himself and hirniture thrown the
get out again, but the latter hs mother managed to
only is left to tell the tale of as since died. Bailey,
children having all perished. sorrow, his wife and
adjoining house, occupied by a shoemaker,11° interior of the
Hepworth,
was
completely
exposed, named John
furniture swept away. The beds and nearly all his
partly in the house and partly out,teads are standing
over the floor, which had been partly' are
end projecting
stable, and coach-house, belonging to removed A barn,
levelled. Tho shop of Messrs. head
Was liippax was
gutted. The shop of Mr. M`Laren, bo kwas Completely
much damaged, the windows door4 seller, was also
ing all disappeared, and his gatock
led furniture
the shop hay-
stroyed. All the other shops in this lo furniture de-
gate) suffered the same way, including ealitY (Hollow-
those
Haley, a greengrocer, and Mrs. Briggs- of Abm. 1
family, were rescued by being taken tat who, with her
house roof. On the opposite side of la ithe top of the
the river, all the houses and shops and the lewgate, next
were swept down, and in the middle of the toll-bar house
posited a huge forest tree, which had been Was de-
the roots. Mr. Robinson, a currier, oee 11 torn up by
then houses, and himself and the vvhoteuPieel one of
perished. The shops of Mr. Henry Fir °f his family
Mr. Abel Hoyle, greengrocer, are smooth' grocer, and
de-
stroyed, but they did not live on the premises those
Victoria-bridge was dismantled, like all the'
walls having been destroyed. The back perrhers, the
dwelling-houses at the end of it arc complet 7f three
viz., those occupied by Charles B. Mar 1
p.es, strae Y gone,
shop, and William Martin, watch and eiceirhennet
(teeth of whose stock is destroyed), and James whtnaker
iteley.
The houses of Mr. Johnson, tinner and brazier,
Alfred Wood, draper and grocer, ; were tilled and Mr.
o
coiamaged. s with
Mr. waAlfred Wood's damage, ter, and the goods in the
it is m osnsa to tho
d
drably
"t
i d,
amount to from 1,5001. to 2,000/.
will
Cottle Bottom belongs to Mr. Joseph AA-
eeoorhe
ase,e a
migistrate of the West Riding, and formerly a woollen
manufacrer. A dryhe,use, ft warehouse, a d_Yeheti°n
ai
several out-buildings (including a warehouse
occupied
by Mr. Samuel Winpenny, grocer), were all
w
down. The stock was entirely destroyed. Adjoining
lower and nearer the river than the front,
is
there was a dvrelling-house, in which a
man, servant to Mr. Floyd, solicitor, and a littler
were sleeping. When the water burst into the e-
'
house,
the man took up the boy, and attempted to pass up the
staircase, but, unhappily, just as he passed the threshold
himself, the door closed by the fore of the water, anti
i separated them, leaving the boy jai the lower room,
.to
1 urown, 48 was expected. The bop Washowever,
borne
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GREAT FLOOD AT TODMORDEN.
In this locality during the early part of the week we
had heavy falls of rain, especially on Tuesday evening,
when many of the inhabitants residing in those parts
which are at such times subjected to be inundated, be•
came alarmed. About half-past eight o'clock a tremen-
dous shower of rain and hail took place, accompanied
with a little thunder and lightning. The river Calder
became much swollen, which continued with little ap-
parent alteration till between twelve and two o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon, when the body of water was so
great, that it overflowed the banks of the watercourse at
Shade, running down the turnpike road, and forced its
way into the cellars and dwelling-houses, and the resi-
dents had to remove what furniture they could, and
seek safety elsewhere. The scene now presented
was one of great confusion and bustle, espe-
cially in Salford, from which pigs and other animals
had to be removed for safety, the water extending from
Shade to Salford. Messrs. Fielden's hands had to enter
the factory by means of planks, which were floating like
boats on its muddy surface. At Toad Carr, in Burnley-
road, the body-et water was so great that a portion of
the
gushingwalls
intoof the
th ewhaot eursceosur e
with was
great
prostrated, the stream
violence;
as was also
the case in Cobden, several of the houses being two feet
deep in water. This portion of the town has not bTen
flooded for some time past, owing to regulations having
been made for such emergencies; but the body of water
being so large and sudden, the sewers were made up im-
mediately. The water did not subside for several hours.
The canal also overflowed in different places, covering
the fields in the vicinity to a considerable extent. At
the time of writing, our correspondent could not form
any proper estimate of the damage sustained.