Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-31

WdtCi, dho WNiS hohhSo anu iCu~
dered heroic service in rescuing women
and children from their perilous position.
We have heard the names of John Fisher
and J. A. Duffy spoken of in terms of
gratitude in this connection, as having
rendered essential service There are
scores of others, as we know by observa-
tion, whose names we have not received,
who did equally WELL aog I..
AS the water arrived at the vicinity of
the Pavilion. corner Of Sixth and NJ
streets, many families were driven from
their homes and had no place of shelter.
The doors of the Pavilion were locked,
and there was no one present with keyes.
q. L. Knowles, with an ak, burst open
one of the doors of the upper story, and
then put up notice inviting families to
take refuge within. The invitation was
not thrown away. During the day the
Howard Benevolent Society accommodated
in the building some two hundred per-
sons, men, women and cbildren--having
kept four boats running constantly, bring
ing off from the flooded district those who
were without the means of transportation.
This number was fed by cauldron
being prepared for the supply Of soup, and
furnished with blankets at night for
lodging. The water continued to back
up from the R street levee, and flood in
turn NJ, L, X and streets. Soon after
one o'clock these streets were from two to
four feet under water. The inmates Of
one-story residences generally deserted
them. while those who occupied two.story
buildings engaged themselves actively in
carrying into the second story all movable
things The cellars IN town were of
course filed with water and large quanti-
ties of stores we're destroyed. Boats,
scows, RATS. and every imaginable kind
of water craft was brought into play on
our streets. Men, women and children.
furniture provisions and clothing, were
removed by these floating craft. and many
an amusing incident occurred from the up
setting of portions of the Aotilla, and
from foot passengers, while walking in
two or three feet of water, plunging un-
expectedly in newly washed holes in the
streets. AT abont eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, the chain gang, under the direc-
zion of Oyerseers Long and Dreman, cut
in opening in the r Street levee between
Fifth and Sixth streets. When the water
irst commenced to pass through this
,pening towards SutterviIle, there was .
Tell from the city side of from eight to teu
feet. Itrushed through ina perfect tor
rent. almost equaling in volume and
violence the mouth of the American river
on the occasion of sudden freshet in it
when the Sacramento is low. Sea sat
E A large number of houses in the i'm
mediate vicinity had been fairly aAoat
for some time, and the discharge through
the opening in the railroad was such that
from twenty to twenty-five Of these houses,
many of them two stories high, were swept
through and dashed to fragments as they
. passed on their way towards Sutterville.
! Among this number was the large house
/, of John Isaacs which stood on Fifth
street near r street. 1t was carried from
its mooring at an early hour, and stood
for a long time in an angular position.
, The proprietor having early sent his fam
lily to the upper portion of the city. re-,
mained on the wreck Of his building.
telling the boatmen who, came near to
!. first save the women and children in the
. vicinity. When the house was about to
clear for Sutterville he jumped into boat
!, and landed on the railroad. Several
a openings beside that which was cut BY
q the chain gang, were created by the
. natural action of the water and the great
/ discharge through them all resulted in
+ lowering the water on J and x streets, at
|, three or four o'clock. about foot. Later
in the evening, when the equilibrium Of
r water on each side of Z street was estab-
! lishcd, the back water filed up all pors
{ tions of the city. and attained a higher
. point than that of the earlier period Of
the LAY. At nine o'clock last evening,