New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-22

j ~pill gave way. sai poured the COZ.
e ns nassy Il. cond NIL poni INTO The a,eaiy
swollen stream. aoa.,v ...., ~ A. .
whole line OF buildings upon the S'-N " 'ns e'eeA'
AMI Aooded nearly the entire town.
The stack Of chimneys and outside srTasscsenb to'
the large steam engine Of the Hslsey girls, mhi va
carried svsy. Their barn, already surrounded ~
water and far Gu; in the stream, was swept OH with
its occupants four horses and four men The horses
and the n, they parted from the building 81 us'
gled Tor the SHORE and the struggle was avtuEy ex-
citing suong such mighty whrl OF pied-up waters
Seue of the men and herses were carried with tas
fabric. crumped into shapeless mass through the
contracted arch Of stone bridge and took fearful
purge below, ard, strange 20 say man and horses
passed through unframed. One horss rescued mc
below, alive. One young msn, Matthew Carpenter,
has not been heard IRON. lie Is drowned, OF course
Presently the massive stone arch spanning the stream
gave way snd the human beings, preeipits,ed many
feet iHto the waters 50 mad WIN eoohHeneeI anu
fiighifu in their rsge, renewed the struggle Tor mo
they had Just their fellows make, and Win an
earrestness as dreadful
Mr.. Moses Reeves Daguerrean artist, that bRoyet
up by q floating timber was seen e. ride hSh ABOVE
the surface with portions of his body, tor distance,
then struck by log he disappeared and 60 bis friends
were lost but by strange good fortune DC states mar
he emerged some RODS below, olingiug with dea.a-
grasp TO his hoat. Onward he hOaied, among the
wrecks If buildings and furious suIf, and saw tel
low sufferer in the same rapid current MI. David
Coon gunsmh, WHO Clutched with him The Host snd
N
Al n o'clock in the night Mr. Reeves reached dry land
about one snd half miles from his place OF starting
He states that two other persons he saw go down.
He never afterwards saw them,
During this time the extensive morocco hstofy ant
tapperv Of Samuel Stoddart, At The east end OF the
arcbei bridge and the DIV, ling Of James Glass, at
the ives. end; poriioss OF the beams of the Farmers
Hotel Wilcox lVery stable, and osher smaller bvHt
ipes in the vicinity: the entire livery stables and
barn, Of James Cuwlts, the hat shop and ana buiid-
ipss of j. y Ticktuor, q portion of Mr.. h. ;. kssys
tappery the sbacco factory OF II. q, Srsnt tho dis
tIlelv' - barns Of the Forest City House. hsi
tum6ltdei,h . crash and b-en swept 0t by tue u0od
Piles of budirVs 70Ck al 20 1icces and logs had ofmed
hauicades in Acat of dwellings on Cayuga street,
where il runs parallel with i,e creek. The stiesu
becon ing block d ap, branch torked ont plough'ns
q rhspnel among. the dwellings in the vicinity. whose
ailgh,ed inmate yhaUied through tho rapids tot dear
life number OF men, women ami chidrep climbed
for aetv tree standing near tie former bs1s OF the
creek Darkness closed upon t2em. The Isung'ng
waters rurooted the nee. All eccsped to az islan1
and .psnt the hight y safety in thswreok OF sootes
sash aud blind factory, except Ne Hawley orswer,
who was swept down the current. His VIE heafd
his farewell to her ia swept past hls dwei as III
the darkness. The mosaing found him tat out upon
the marsh and this afternoon the cofOaeI hOioshs
inquest upon his iiel-ss corpse >.
Adown the main street Of the sge the water
n,hed tom the bursting banks IT ne nuruy Geek
full up To the gsmbel joints of horses ltsp,ead ,at
over isrye portions OF the town. Tbs plank ~ tho
main street is corded up bgh. Here TIE anc'ent sou
below the gravel is IN burrows o1posedi thee, istoaa
of urows deposit is made OF soil from some tarcu
farmers lands. Very many get noticed by soma
marring stroke of this untiiendly Hood. but Mf.
StoddaTd the MesSrs Hasey, the Cayugs division OF
the Susouehanna Railroad losing considerable OF their
track and the corporation the larges sufferers,