Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-06
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raiiilSif INrIof:Ars ~ qua GREAT STORM, ar
liAnnE.s lGHNY.
iCor srnadence Baltimore Americana
HaR 'Ai3 l'1n,;Y, October}, 1870.
on SitUrlas ln.i tl.e fdal city Of IiaiYers
Ferry was thc SCENE Of a disaster more dreadful
than any it had vet Witnessed in It's eyentful
career. 4 flood, Sudden and unexpected. in
few hours inflicted more lasting damage. in
sprcd more terror and took away more of tho
lives oil the citizens than all OF the sieges and
bomhar(smenta to which it was subjected during
the war.
AN uNDAuETEp WOMAN.
In one Of the brick houses on IIecbs Island
lived the tev DIR, D;itton pastor Of tic Presbv-
terrain Church his wife and two colorcd servants
On Friday night the foundation of his house
began to give away, and stepping ont into the
HAL lie was struck by Il falling timber and
Knocked scnseess TO the floor. Tic water was
rising and the house was crunbng away Mrs.
button sSnalled to the house Immediately on.
posite, strong building, aud from the second
story rope was thrown to her. She tied this
around one Of the servant girls and she was
drawn across the streetto the next house through
the water fifteen teei deep The rope was re-
turned, tue other servant was sent over in the
same way, then the still unconscious husband
and last the heroic wife herself crossed the per-
ilons Hood after she hal seen all her household
safely over.
f9tSd nfSlisp THAT TRIED r1 sAvE MS WIFE.
James Slipe, Young man, was living with Lis
wife. to whom lie had been welded about five
months, on Oyertous iHaud. When the flood
s@eft a~ay hi. loHse.ou Friday night he stripped
himself for mighty swim anl taking his Wife
on liis hack he plunged out into the raging water
hotibS 70 strife q rlea, on sciue of the strong
houses that had not vet Welded to the waves Ie
brayely struggled along, holding to his precious
bufien,and aci1lns one object after another. only
"A IL Nh.fA Ian i 50
ehireated his 10 le, her 90 and save himself !.
"yoli are not prepared TO die, my dear husband.
and trust am, were her words. At last he
caught by the water tank Oh Halls Island hut he
soon lost iiiS mold and once more was alrift in
me iipud, lilo neNt caught tho branches of a
ioatinS tree on which he supported himself for
a lew nlhites, and lifting up lis wifc's head,
winch he had been unable 10 keep above tho
water, he found that Size WAS dt.ni. The beloved
form which lie hal horne For five hundred wards
nov Geld ami litelesti dropped from his gras,,
and disappeared beneath the yellow waters. Tic
strong swimmer struggled on and soon struck
INC enl wall of the burnt mill on ilecks Island.
Where he rested for few minutes and then
reached q tree growing IN front of the row Of
bGcS luises already mentioned from
lhe tree he reached thereof Of one of the houses
ana Planting himself bc,tin,! one of the climneys
remained until brought OF on Saturday.
FHlNE WHO FOUND wATERY GRAVE.
u has been definitely aacertained that of the
peulle lINlhs between Shenandoah CITY and the
nloi.tl OF the river thirty-tlrce lave been lost.
~ follows:
o. t@AkHNul's isI.ANn.
Benjamin liateinaii, Ills wife and live children
James l'ateman, wife and four children.
Aslam lt,emau.
ileaton Myers, wife aud three Children.
John Brady.
l3erLie Harris. c@lnrc,l.
NJ Of these bad gathered INTO tlio largo brick
house before alluded to-
ligs, Overflow daughter aud giandchill.
"afTy Harris, e9lu.cd. wife, daughter and
srandrhill.
Mr.; sliipc wltose ,lea'l hrt been already
iamuci iiair aud Mr. Ell,a Carroll.
et Halls iai&:;p
,'stG14ta y iia.lg !.al; ools.cI and Ler
! @aman named Mar ~,nitl, and James Henry
"l'a ana three children ara reported as drowned
" lhe' W tlNer hri t''e'ai no confirmation
NJ tlo ftini0l
i.llq hnlyo; Nj. i,,1nmerrlant .rosdhs
q 'ihlcs above, LAS bpGn found
lhe body Of ~ Haknnwn colorcd woman waA
i"a9d mi 4, ilo fanls II 4 sycamore tree.
i3SM4s
ttiily ltEs!, wifa wife was carried of in tie
current and lloated along hall mile or 80, until
fortunately she caught the branches of a tree
and held on until next morning, when she was
rescued. have also been informed that a
cploied woman Was picked Mp in the drift near
iie,Ln, who said rle lived in Page county, and
ilii l'een swept out OF her house on Thursday
night, salie had iloated nearly two hundred
miles.
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IN Monday there were thhleen deaths from
FELLOW fever in New Orleans