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corner Of Holiday and Saratoga streets,
were found the drowned Bodies oil
CHRisroPHERW Eisr, the Sextoa oftha'
church, has sO,fs and fArss children. -
One of the children. an infant. was in
iis cradle ! The rest had started, AZ
fnghied, from their beds. only TO feel
the utter impossibility Of escape. from
the torrent which surgsd and reared
around them. filing their apartment
from floor 10 ceiling.
10 shantse opposite 10 Whites dis
tiliery were found the bodies Of
Donneily and his wife. AT the corner
of Concord and Water streets
Dougherty. an Irishmsn; on the Long
Dock. the dead body Of James Doyle,
IN Irishman.
A shantee. on the Falls Turnpike,
out Of the city, was suddenly lifsed up
by the eurrent and swept away. Ftv.
PERsoNs who occupied il were drown
ed; the body Of one Of them. girl. has
been found. The corpses Of the Others
are, no doubt. covered beneath the rub
bish. which the workmen are now en-
gagged in removing from the various
bridges over the Falls.
F's@ tAs B.ilizs.s "sua-"
For three miles above the Falls the
loss OF property on both sides is inn
mense; ell the mill-dams for that dis
lance have been swept away. and in
the neighborhood Of the toll gate sese-
raj houses were carried down With the
torrent, which increased with incalcu-
liable power - Il proceeded. demolish-
ing every impeachment. Among ihe
numerous disasters. We can specify az
Preseat but few. The extensive tan.
merry Of Mr.. Appold. opposite the Iail.
was entirely delnged; loss supposed 10
be $1,000. All that part Of the city
designated the meadow was covered
with water from 5 10 10 feet, rising. in
some houses, to the second story. The
damage TO individual property in this
section Is incalcu!ahIe; but the great.
est IS that OF the Messrs. White, who
have lost their extensive distillery.-
A great part Of their improvements
were carried of. with large quantity
OF whiskey, carts. Sc. The most Sc
rious part Of their loss Is that Of their
horses. mules. and COWS, which. a. near
as can be computed. now amount to
about so horses and mules, 100 cows,
ane 300 hogs. The whole damage they
have sustained cannot be estimated.-
As the destructive element passed thro
the meadow, il brought the greatest
ruin upon Messrs. Hyde & CurIett.
soap and candle manufacturers. and
who poSsessed. in all. four extensive
establishments. The loss Of these in
disiduEls must be very great. The
bridges over the clls on Centre. Bath
aud Hiilen streets. were entirely swept
away. The vicinity of Saratoga, Hol-
lidsy and North streets presents one
continued scene Of ruin. The gas
house has suffered serious injury. MIR.
Lees Carriage repository in Holiday
street. near to Saratoga, ives inunda-
ted: ID carriages vera destroyed loss
estimated OF 81, 600 OF $1,000 The
water on both sides Of the market was
from 4 20 & feet high. The basement
stories Of all the buildings in Harrison
street, from Gay to Market, were filed
with wafer; at the lower end OF Haryi-
son street some Of the second stores
were inundated. The buildings in
Market street for some hundred yards
east and vest Of HARRISON street, were
deluged. and as most Of them were oe.
eupied As stores. the loss Of property
in that direction must have been very
great.
IL - next to impossible 10 form any
thing like csrreel estimate in relation
10 the loss that the city has sustained
by this unprecedented disaster. Rum
stake through an imposing snd impoF-
iant part Of the city, sad al its excite
ment. The more we wander around
the scene Of desolation, the more fal.
ly is the ruin developed. The heart
sickens a; the contemplation Of q scene
80 dreadful.
p. s. The coroner h0s aseestained
that the whole number Of persons
drowned was twenty-five, the bodies of
sixteen OF whom have been found.