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rolled along the sullen roar was accompanied by
a rapid cracking sound which seemed like a con-
tinuous discharge of musketry. It was pro-
duced by the snapping of the trees, which were
carried away and hurled with terrific force against
any object that might obstruct their progress.
Fortunately a great majority of the cottagers and
others nearly beneath the dam had been warned of
what was likely to occur, and had made their esoare
in time. Only few lives comparatively were lost
here; but every vestige of mill, forge, or house was
swept away. But at Hillsborough, Malin-bridge,
and along the Owlerton-road the greatest mischief
to life and property was done. Hundreds of people
who slept in confidence on Friday night have, with
their houses, gone down the stream, and now sleep
the long sleep of death. The great farmhouse of
Mr. James Trickett, with its 11 occupants, and two
or three cottages which were close by, are gone.
Malinbridge is gone, MrWilson's blacksmith's shop,
a scithe wheel-house, and a very large number of
dwelling-houses in Holme-lane have been swept
away with their occupants. In the centre of the
village was a large now publichouse, called the
Stag Inn, and of that publichouse there is only left
the arched crown of its cellar, under which some
barrels may be seen. Near the fragment of an outs
building that formerlybelonged to the farm some dead
horses are lying,and a number of large trees, stripped
of all their covering, lie, with their branches torn
off and their roots washed clean, about the adjoin-
ing fields. The torrent came in contact with a row
or terrace of good-looking three-story houses, and
at the back a piece is cut off as if chopped off with a
hatchet, and so large is the portion taken away that
the houses on the left stand like hens balanced on
one leg. About 30 houses have been thrown down,
and some of them completely washed away in Holme
Lane. In some of these houses there were as many
as eleven, and in others eight persons drowned. At
the Hillsborough brick row there was farther loss
of life. Nearer the Hillsborough bridges, both of
which are down, James Atkinson and two sons, one
17 and the other 12 years of age, were drowned ;
and at the Masons' Arms, which is almost com-
pletely destroyed, the landlord (Mr. Pickering)
and three other members of the family have come
to an untimely end. Near Hillsborough many dead
bodied have been found, which were removed to the
neighbouring inns, but have since been conveyed to
the Sheffield Workhouse. The watermark shows
that some of the houses here have been submerged
nearly to the roof, others have been filled up to the
level of the second story,and in others which stand a
little higher the watermark is about shoulder-height.
The streets are quagmires, and the lower rooms of
the houses are nearly ankle deep in wet loam.
At Malin-bridge the river is narrow and bent, the
hills on each side are steep and lofty, and the build-
ings that stand oa the banks of the Loxley arc on
riband-like slopes of low land at the foot of the hills.
Near the water, and projecting into it, were the
water-mills, and of these the wheels alone are to be
seen. One large work is partly saved and partly des
stroyed. Placed in a position where the full set of the
current was thrown on the opposite side, it has lost
part of its walls, and its couple of cylindrical boilers,
removed from their beds, remind us of those ana-
tomical models in which the skin and ribs are re-
moved to exhibit the lungs. Near to these manu-
facturing premises are several whitewashed
houses three storeys in height, and on these the
water line is on a level with the tops of the win-
dows of the second floor. Oa the 0 wlerton side
the houses are with few exceptions either gutted
or demolished, but there still exists a wing
of Malin-bridge. A piece of street still stands,
and through the middle of this street trees, cattle,
and pieces of machinery, not to mention the
drowned of the upper village, have been driven.
Giese stones have been bowled down the street like
marbles, castings from the neighbouring mill have
been floated along it like chips, and lie near a quar-
ter of a mile away from their original position, and
the appearance of the place as the inhabitants are
shovelling out sandy earth by the cartload from the
interior of their houses is most miserable. The
Sheffield Telegraph says :—" Judging from the way
in which the water spread itself out at this point
the remnant of houses at this spot must have looked
at one time like sunken arks in the middle of a lake.
The way in which some houses have stood, while
others no weaker have fallen, may be accounted for
perhaps by the set of the current from side to side.
Certain it is that one honse is taken and another left,
and that one side cf a street nearest the river has
withstood the torrent, while of another that was
further from the water nothing retrains but broad,
flat-topped heaps of stone—heaps which must be
looked at and studied if you would understand that
each heap represents a house. In some parts a long
chain of houses has broken down, and a very low
bank of stone and lumber—a bank apparently not
more than 23ft. high—stands for what was so lately
a terrace. The stone houses appear to have resisted
the pressure worse than the slighter looking brick
ones, and their bones lie in such a manner as to give
us the idea that they had collapsed under hydraulic
pressure. One almost wonders how many people
are under these stones, for the dwellings look as if
they had dropped perpendicularly down upon their
inmates. Between the houses of Malin-bridge and
the hills there is a large piece of ground which the
river has spread over with its plunder. We notice
a kitchen dresser---a good, respectable article of
furniture—at gunshot distance from any house. IVas
it the farmer's at the bend of the river, or did it be-
long to the landlady of the spruce inn of which no-
thing but the cellar can ba found ? There are no less
than three kitchen boilers scattered unnoticed
among the stones. In a pool of dirty water an iron
bedstead in emerald green—a fancy article for the
class of house to which it had belonged—lies half
buried, and its mistress is probably either drifting
down the Don, or stretched on one of those boards
where the corpses are, for greater saving of space,
laid unwashed and much bruised close side by side.
The adhesiveness of mortar is shown in the btiha-
viour of some of the brickwork. There are pieces of
brick wall that have, after being carried a consider-
able distance, hung together like boards. There are
sections of brick chimneys which lie on their sides
like boxes at several hundred yards from where
they were thrown down. A solitary perambulator
stands apart, and sometimes a bit of oilcloth, a man's
boot, or a piece of broken crockery crops up among
the stones, and, but for these signs of home, you
would not suspect that the stones laid down in a
confusion like that of the small boulders which lie at
the foot of the hills had ever formed the walls of a
house. There is one large tree that has got upon its
feet again, and there is a case where several others
have fastened their arms round one living one and
held their ground. A gig and some carts and rail-
way trucks have stuck in separate corners of the
river. The carts are farmers' carts ; the gig is said
to have been carried off the adjoining road with the
horse and driver. The houses we see at 0 wlerton
are exposed as if they had been made for the pur-
pose of exhibiting their interiors. In one room there
is an iron bedstead, in another an old mahogany
one, and in a third the floor has canted like a corn
shoot, and the bed and its occupants have been sent
down the river. A picture hangs against a wall,
which itself hangs in air without supports from be-
low. We have already alluded to the adhesiveness
of brickwork, and we have now to mention a more
remarkable case. At the stone bridge there is, or
was on Sunday, a brick house which had been
brought down by the current with its roof and floor-
ing all complete. The story may seem an incredible
one, but the fact has been witnessed by thousands.
Another remarkable fact is the heavy burden of
earth which the flood brought down with it. It is
no uncommon thing to see men at work with spades
shovelling ap the soil from the floor of what had been
their best room, and as a rule the smallest rooms
appeared capab,e of furnishing several hundred.
weights of earth for carting away. The movement
of great weights by bydraulie power was illustrated