The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-10-20

:S8-iJUHlc) 1885 5i
THE LATE Fno6Di AT aHARPER's
lt4sI assst-4 FERRY AIT +!
The Rushing Of a. Devastating TORRENT
Through the Streets +strongJ, Houses
Swept Away and. Whole Families Drown
ed-Basket Suspension, Bridges-Marvel-
GUS Adventures on the Stream9 sifIi
4 Il From the New orki SUNG octobers6
The scene at Harppe,rps p,p F Ferry ii ! on on Sat
/ urday was one. to be remembered,
1 Shenandoah street and the, low.
grounds. lying between, it, and the
] Shenandoah, River were entirely sub
merged, The edge of the street is
I washed by, the canal, and between the,
canal and the river are three islands,
4 separated by bitches. The upper is
land is called Overton, the next Halls,
and the next the island of Xirginius.r
On the inner side of sShenaAdoah
street is. q precipitous ledge, perhaps
/ $40 teet. high, which formedas barrier
to the flood and lemmedg it in, butiI
4 went rushing down the, street all the
more Violently, and swept away or
greatly I'M jured all the buildings on
I the water side, Among them was the
j Government stabl with walls ,iinr
mensely. thick and strong, which
were ,5lifted from, their, feppdati on,
! the bfick. being, throYlg about as
4 though they, had heenS sand-sT Fifteen
/ other buildings, = mainly ID wellipgs,
|. were SWEPT away with all their con
i tents, the inmates n barely escaping
i With With thfYir 1hlfYr lives, and teniwefes badly
:1lh Sgg iii, ri sfnf2, az an2g;i5,a a;i,o -
near, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
i isa short street, running N il parallelwith;
A, Shenandoah street, and between it
+ and the, river, on which, were several
brick and stone houses. o lQno Friday
evening the water suddenly rose six
d, feet, filing, the first f9erss efnthe
j honscs and driving the, inmates to the
lIupperI stories. The Webb dfamilyi
were in the greatest peril the dWater
], cons stan tly risinga and the sfoundation
Of their house agiXing oWaB. Mrs,
I Webb stepped, to a window with an
infant in her arms and held it up,ap-
] rpealingg, for its rescue. yAvyoung man
snggested 4si nscu sssiTesi 1uF ,bs u
4 suofgsII AsBAsKET PERRY, ,bS
/ land fQrthwithap large clothes Basket
was procured, and IA rope drawn
I thpo ugh the9hahdles, and one end was
! thfo Wipto the window Of the q house.
A small rope was tied togs each oft II the
i basket handles and! tile free end of
; one held BY the ihef0 on the bridge
4 and the other 2lBye Mfr! Webb at the
. window. oiThe bask ct was drawn. DYER,
i itheapassenger tiedIin, and, then drawn
4 back. In this way seven persons, inS
I Pefuding two twin babies, were resS
: heaed. aaThfeeI6ther families, the ,Wila
! lianlses and the ReeVeses and Aidef!
sons, who. had taken refuge in. Mrs
I Williams 81 house, a Strongly y-buiIt
q stone structure, acohcl1 l1ded to, remain
4 4'rather than risk the perils of the basa
ket ferry. All night long ythes}S,, Wait
! FED and watched while the. food ragged
u without, ambrose inch BY inch, Until
) finally they retreated to the attic,
7 lapS, The EAsf PL1GE IL Of i REF REFUGE,
* The, house, renamed fTmi iauntiI
morning, then, the feundationa wall
), neXtth canal gave way, then the rear
= wall, but the imprisoned ssoulststill
: c4lqng to the Il frpat.si When, morning
came they .were WildlB isigaalingd dOf
help, but the distance, was so 5great
that no man could throw sau rope
across. At last, after many trials, q
ball, to which q tWine string was at
tached, was, thrown to the window. of
the falling house, andr by means OF
f this striqgla rope was drawn across
and basket terry rigged] up as be-
fore, by which. fifteen persons were
safely brought to land, one chubby
) little fellow, two years old, was, put
i, in the basket without being tied, and
! was being pulled across when he be-
gam to make the iImost Hlive1y efforts
TO, climb up the issidessandi Jump out.
; He was hauled back to the window
) and tied, and his little legs bound
I firmly together, and with these fetters
I on 9his sturdy limbs he was taken
! over the, gnh. WG 4. .a0Ii9ela 9ni .
I % sdI 1o fAHERoIC WoMAN.ag n9ed
d il9hl one of thesbrick houses on TfeIrr's
Island liYedth Rev. DIR! Dutton, pas
; tor of the Presbyterian, church, / jhis
+ wife and two Icolored servants, 4 On
Friday hight the foundations OF, his
: house began to give way, and Step
! ping out into YtfeIrhall he was bstrtick
: by falling timber and knocked sense
$ less to the floor. Mrs. Dutton signal
, ed to the house Immediately. oppo-
site, a Strong building, and from the
q second storyoa9 rope was thrown to
3 her.o cSheltied this around one of the
: servant girls, and she was drawn
, across the street to the next house
through the watefofifteen feet deep.
the rope was returned the, other SER
e want was sent over rim the. same way,
: then the still unconscious husband,
t and last the heroic wife herself cross
y ed the perilous flood after she had seen
= all her household safely soverJ o The
house ipfoVedlto be a strong house OF
refuge, andoalthough the winds blew
/, and the floods came, it9felB nots E ON
Saturday they = were 5taken ooffitheiis;
/ ! iand.1sr suoiF5Ig eid oj yTojs2o19b =
i EFFORTS or A I YOUNG eHusBANDr RTo
i io' to iaeiskvE HIS wWifFF1E.nnh wiF1E.. on
s 8 James Shipe, lived with his wife, to
C months, on OYerton 5; IsianA. FSWhen
4 Friday night, he stripped himself ,fol
- d mighty swim, and, taking his wife
, on his back, plunged out into the rag.
ing water, hoping to strike a tree, OF
i SOME Of the Strong houses that had
. not yielded, to the waves He brave
struggled along holdiHg to- his
, precious burden, and gseizing one ob:
Ell iect after another, only to find it give
e way under his grasp. o AT last he
caught by the, water, tank on HALF:
= Island, and at least, ten times he en-
deav3ored 70 get hold ot,it,, but was as