The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-05

morning young Haslem and Ccrrigan took
the old "scow they had secured by rope
from window at the rear OF the house,
and ventured short distance and secured
a few apples, and some grapes which
grew on the top of an arbor in the vicinity;
and they got little sack OF -four which
happened to be in the upper story Of Has.
lem's house. They also secured q little
wood from high shed near by, which gave
them fire to cook cakes, mixed up in the
most primitive way, without salt or rising.
On these they were enabled to pinch out
subsistence Thursday and Thursday night,
During Thursday morning they heard the
cries of woman some distance away, and
they went to little house and took out u
family who was nearly famishcd.
The party of sixteen wore only released
Friday morning, on the subsidence of the
! food, ...,. 4,
Most of the inhabitants of Mcpherson de.
serted the place when the water first began
coming in OF those who were caught
there by the food il is mercy that none
were drowned. The loss is large, but we
cannot approximate tho amount,
The appearance of things in Dayton on
Friday is thus described:
From the summit of the ridge in East
Dayton there was wide prospect of water
in the valleys, and broad, broken pools
about Bucktown. The corn in the fields,
as far as the vision could he reached,
seemed to he standing up in defiance of the
food, which gave hope of good harvests
yet. t"ta ''. o.
At tho head of the hydraulic there was
4 wide crevasse, and from that point down
to Spinning's corner, where the elbow of
the canal jogs the side of the river, there
was an indiscriminate mass of DRIFT, lumber,
stoves, barrels, bridge-timber, shingles, hen
coops, out-houses, and frame shops of va,
rious dimensions, .a .n.H.
At Barney, Smith h Co.'s railway car
factories, everything was still atloat. Great
piles of lumber were jostled out of place,
some of them upset, aud thousands of planks
and sticks of timber were iammed into
massive rafts. They had 100000 feet of
lumber stacked on their premises before
: the food, and we judged the most of il was
still laying around promscuously in that
vicinity
Davis & Cofs fax factory premises were
also demoralized, and covered with other
peoples drift with some of their own j.
b. Pitts e. Co.'S Agricultural works were in
like condition, but still floating. At the
lower edge of Backtown, there was maze
of cooper slaves and lumber, but the shops
were not in their wonted places. .,,..
Going down to the elbow of the canal
much of every thing that was summarly
+ carried off ON Wednesday, was found
jammed together like the great Red river
raft, pressed to the bottom of the canal, and
piled in masses six or eight feet high.
Just below there was o counterpart oi
this spectacle, piled up against Second
S street bridge, and 30 at Third street bridge
where the programme was varied by a
wrecked canal boat a ripped up street
trees OH the side walk bent aud broken
and the Cooper Park converted into re-
e ceptacle for all manner OF drift. Pursuing
the course of the canal to the Main street
crossing, the same features were visible
Along this line there was some damage tc
the streets where the torrent burst ovel
the cahai banks, ana some OF me frame ,en
emehts apntt'hg on me eahal were roughly
! thunped 6y passing tlmoers'
= AnoVe JEFFERSON street tne torrent maze
: ciean preac.i III dlrect me- aAu too6 tl1'
pleasant oWei'ings aiouS iile route III ha.N
$ ripping up the fences, and utterly laying
waste the pretty garueNs the women 5n1 nao
aenderly nurtured through the season. Ihe
man force OF the current strucK bulI
corner at the 1901 OF the orluge emoahk'
|
put only the pavement was torp up, ana
= lew cart loads o. graVel washed out Al
. sixth street, the embapkment on the wes
SIDE, Leading to the change oriuge' was cu'
clean ana carried away, inc priuge going
too. The volume o! water when rushed
: through this channel was Ter leet qeep, anG
CO. o"o h''''''e e' W Ia .,,,I,
, hnt Il threatened more than il DESTROYED
ioss i covSeJ 70 nron"rtv
Thsre wos No ,vater hetween tho canal
and Filth straet in Oraoon the canal hank
nroving n substantial fender TO that part O.
f The c;tv The nronertv o,vners on Fiftl
were c2owing ahont tbeir drv land Jus
holow E;fth 6owever thars WAS consider
obie 5annness
80
over III Sou'n D,y .oU' wese VI T' ,ne oa'al
the peoPie wote "il'o'eu 1"y no wa'e'
was seven 'eot "eep III la,so Pl1po'tt
oi tle houses, @uu .uose wnc 'ooA 'onuso
WIN tneH "hoie io''una'e ne'suoois' "o'o
clGahlng UP :,
me res'uenss OF oeconu s'reei were Vn '
lne whoie more IortuIate s'iah tnoso sou.,I
ot them' me wafer tooN PosSesS'on mi, ~
perhaps one'rIiu r, ol lne'l hoeses' my
resi- esc"Peu' tne hrsl hpo's y. 'no IN
u"elllnsS next 'l'e leVeE were hlieem 'n'n
es ABOVE water. r Az all hau al ample TIME y
Prepa'e, none suhefeu loss nc sa'lie 'y may
% sa'u oi rnst SIee'. As ~ ato no
sueet, auJo'n.ns tne ievee, 'o5 u, ouo ssT
ry c1t.ases were Vlctl"ileu anu tne peDpie ie
sousut Lne tMo-1a'iy ""0i''"s' " 'u'N