The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

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Qt the bridge below ae New Barracks. ThitAq
bridge was not upset; or rather it was only partly -__i
upset. The current, not to be bailled, turnect.thet
!,:osition, and cut iself a road round its epponentN.
the bridge. Some of the stonca removed are very
fine ones in respect of size and weight, and it is
known that the tree which now lies across the en-
trance to the Barrack-road wee. brought down nil
the way frena one of the upper villages. That tree
is a very choice one in point of girth and weight,
3et it has been tossed like a cork into the middle
of one of our most public streots.'i
On the river bank between Hillsborough and
Owlerton nearly all the buildings are destroyed.
The premises of Butler, \Viisou, and Co., and Mr.
John Wilson, forgers and rollers, have almost en-
tirely disappeared. Ten dead bodies were found in
the stream opposite these works, and were removed
part to the Yew-tree inn,
and part to the Rodney.
At the back of the Stag several houses were de-
molished. Thotnas Bates and his family and Thos.
Bullond and his wife were drowned here. Between
Bowers-row end Hillsborough the flood had taken a
clean sweep across the road and the fields, oblite.
,
rating all the landmarks, and leaving nothing but
ofg htoesu,se fire-irons,s the lighter
and
a largo tract of mud, which was thickly strewn with
partstreee, partsof
machinery,of t he
roofs
casks,grates,
hosts of other things. The sweep of the good
seems to have been towards the left, and a
row of housesion the left hand side of the road,
above the Hillsborough Inn, felt its full force. They
were submerged, back and front, to the top of the
ceiling of the bedrooms. The first house, occupied
by a man named Dyson, his wife, seven children,
and his brother, was entirely destroyed, with the
exception of the bedroom and attic, and the inmates,
with the exception of llyson's brother, were dro isned.
He escaped by breaking through the slates.
In a smaller class of house at the end of this row
the loss of life was fearful-----James Atkinson, his
wife, two little boys, and his daughter were
drowned. In the next two houses lived William
Atkinson and his family, and in the next George
Atkinson and his wife. Not one survives. In the
furthest house of the row Isaac Drabble, his wife,
and two children were drowned. These houses were
of older date ,than the others, and were rather
more strongly built. Across the road was a
little hovel, which seemed a mere mass of stones
loosely piled. The bedroom, as it was termed, was
scarcely eight feet from the ground. In one corner
was a large box, in which the occupant of the house,
an old man, had sought shelter from the flood. He
closed the lid on himself, and was found high and
dry uninjured when the waters receded. A man
named Turton and his wife, vi ho lived at Marshall's
paper mill, were drowned. In one of the small cot-
tage houses lived a family named Dean. In one of
the upper rooms two little boys were in bad, and
they were awakened by feeling the bed floating about.
One of them, by pressing against the ceiling, pre.
vented the bed from touching, and so saved himself
from being suffocated, but his brother jumped out
and was drowned in the chamber. The stream of
water has left a clearly defined course, extending
for nearly 300 yards, upon the wall of Hillsborough-
halls, which is partially demolished.
Passing to the point where the Loxley joins the
Don, the flood swept over Rawson's meadows and
dashed against the hill at Wardsend, and in its
reeoil carried away several of the mills and forges
on both banks of the river. The Wardsend slitting
mill was submerged, and immense damage done to
the machinery. Four bodies were found among the
ruins, but they were those of persons drowned
higher up the river. Bodies were also found scat.
tered about the fields and in the deep brooks. In
the Park-house Mill ten bodies were hastily laid
upon the mud. Lower down the stream, at the sib*
ver mi'l of Mr. Peace, the wonder was not at the
extensive devastation that had been committed, but
that any part of the building had been left stand-
ing. A large quantity of silver which was being
rolled is missing. Ten bodies were recovered in this
locality. One dead body was found resting on the
branches of a tree, and another was jammed between
a beam and the wall of a house. It is expected that
a large number of bodies will be recovered when
the brooks and water-courses along the wood side
con bo cleared. Coming down the Hillfoot, the most
serious damage to buildings seems to have been done
at the works of Messrs. Marchington and Makin.
A man named Wm. Simpson, who was working at
the forge with a boy named Capper, ran out of the
workshop and sought refuge on the top of a boiler
which was erected by the side of the goit. Capper
took refuge on a beam over the boiler and escaped
the fate of his companion, who was washed away
with the boiler and the brick piers upon which it
stood. Between Hillfoot and the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire Railway are about 900 acres
of land laid out in gardens. This space is covered
deep with mud. All the landmarks are swept away,
and the wide plain is covered with the debris of the
flood.

In Neepsend-lane the scene of devastation was
almost worse than at any other place. In several
wretched garden houses, one storey high, whole
families have been drowned. A man named Petty,
his wife and three children were drowned in a little
building that seemed scarcely larger than a pig-
sty. In another, a file-grinder named Hukin, his
wife, and two children were drowned. Messrs.
Fawley's tannery, opposite Bacon Island, has suf-
fered tremendously. Near these works the body
of a man was found in a tree, and another was
jammed between part of a haystack and the side of
a cottage. The gardens behind the Victoria Hotel
presented the appearance of a lake of mud, the
ruins of the garden houses sticking out here and
there. Eleven bodies were found in the gardens,
and removed to Mr. Bagshaw's house. A serious
loss of life occurred in the garden houses between
the Victoria-gardens and the gasworks. A woman
named Bennett was lost. Her husband was rescued
from the roof a garden house by a man named Pos-
ton. A man named Hilston, his wife, and a child
11 days old were reported missing. A man named
Howard, and his wife and daughter, and a family
named Fletcher, got on the roofs of their respec-
tive houses, and were saved by Poston and mem-
bers of his family. In Poston's house there were
three babies alive, which he had taken in, and was
doing the utmost in his power to supply their
wants till they were claimed or provided for
in case of the loss of their parents. A house occu-
pied by a man named Jenkinson was partially
swept away, and he lost his life, A family named
Moss, five in number, were swept out of their house
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himself by
They were
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clinging to some timber that had accumulated
against one of the piers. The Works of the Gas
Company at Neepsend suffered to a very serious
extent.

The workhouse in Sheffield was deeply flooded,
and nothing but the promptitude with which the
alarm was given saved loss of life there also. The
Sheffield lelegraph says :—" It will be noted that
the poor, and more especially the deserving poor,
are the chief sufferers b
The y this catastrophe.
knocking down of one side of a whole
row of houses has shown that many of our
operatives' wives have a'pride in their houses which
says much for their love of home. Bright tins hang
on clean walls, and it is noted that these little
cages are, :as at Neepsend, often the property of
their tenants. The smart furniture is spoilt, the
houses and their waterways aro seriously damaged,
some thousands of workmen are suddenly throwa
out of work, many orphans need help, and we
help will come most liberally from all classes of'
the people of Sheffield, and also from the leading
towns in the United Kingdom." trust
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