The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-18

noating down the tide with despair on tnelr
iaces. IN 1ment later higher wave swept them
under.
AT sKINNERsvILLE.
Four lives were lost at Skinnersville. -Mrs.
Jerome Stihman, whose body has not yet been re-
covered; Mrs. Jacob Hills. whose remains were
found this morning and who leaves six small
children; Robin, the little son or Captain Joseph
Hayden and Ell Bryant, man aged seventy-six.
At eleven O'Clock this morning the body OF DR..
Johnson, who persisted at Williamsburg, was re-
covered at Skinnersvle, with that OF Q young
woman who has not Jet been Identified. In all
twenty-five buildings in skinnersville were swept
away, more than half OF which belong
to william Skinner, whose silk factory
was totally destroyed As It happened. Mr..
Skinner had large amount OF silk on hand
an d his loss was not less than $125,0O0.
THE ESCAPE OF OVER HUNDRED
The 125 hands at work In SINNERS factory had
but three minutes' warning of the food, but all
escaped to the hills which surrounded the villages
Men have been excavatlng for the dead bodies
near Mr.. SKinner's house all day, but none have
been found as yet. n r
HAYDENsvLLv's ILL FORTUNE u4
The severest blow to Haydensville Is the loss of
the brass factory Of Hayden, Gere Co., with its
adjoining once building, occupied also by the Hay.
densville Savings Bank. The loss has been put as
high 5000 900, but viii not exceed half that sum.
The old or upper portion Of these works st stands
and notices were posted on It to-day stating
that the firm would commence to rebuild to-mor-
row and would furnish employment for all work
men. Besides the brass factory about fifteen
buildings, mostly cneap tenement houses, were
swept away. ...lft.
The full list OF the twenty.eight persons who lost
their lives at Haydensville is as foiOws:-
Mrs. Morris and her daughter Johanna Williams,
the oodles OF both being found this morning close
by the Congregational church.
Two young children OF Edward Tnayer.
Christian Kaplinger.
Mrs. hogan, IN the same house.
Edward Moaker. M
Mrs. Mosher and her daughterin-law, Mira
Kosher.
Francis Brodeur.
Three children OF Mrs. Miller.
Mrs. John Wilson and three children.
Mrs. Luke Possey, her daughter and two grand
children.
Mrs. Louis Messie and daughter and three grand.
children.
stephen Reilly and wife.
REMARKABLE FEATs OF THE FLOOD.
II. NJ. Brewster, paymaster at Hayden Gere h
Co.'s factory, had gone to the mill He ran for his
life, and In . few moments after his escape the
Hood was twenty feet deep in the street, and the
mil ONCE and bank building, known as one OF the
finest structures in Western Massachusetts, was
shaken in pieces and borne away like
leaves on the swollen tide. The
food picked up o heavy boiler Of the
factory and hurried 1t unceremontousiy across the
street into the yard OF Lieutenant Governor Hay
denis house as though It had been plaything
All OF the sons and sons-in-law OF Lieutenant Gov
ernor Hayden, including Acting Governor Talbot,
came tog ether at Haydensve on Saturday, with
their families In anticipation OF the delivery OF
sermon to-day by the Rev, Mr.. Kimball, in memory
OF the late Lerenant Governor Hayden; but the
discourse was, OF course, postponed. The safe
OF the savings bank was found In the river to-day,
q lew rods below the scene OF its destruction, but
has not been opened. The report that it contained
$4,000 In money as the bank deposits at North
ampton ia unl0unded. -ts ~ #..,. .s.s -
AT LEEDS.
The devastation ut leeds Is lndescribable. Only
three houses on the east side Of the river remain
In their original positions The water first struck
the Nonotuck silk dam, q solid structure, aud
ploughed through It Us II it had been a bank OF
sand. The dam was built twenty-five years ago
and had twenty-six foot fall in the centre. II
originally cost $4,000, and was refaced few years
ago. The stone wall OF the mill facing the stream
| was nearly swept away. The mill was DAM
aged but slightly, but work will not be
resumed on It for months, thus throwing many
hands out OF employment. Tho SILK mil
boarding house was totally wrecked. All
the inmates escaped, except Captain Vaughn
and Miss woodward, both or whom lost their lives
by returning for some valuabes Miss Wood ward
was q daughter Of the old proprietor of the Wood
ward House, at Northampton. The Old wooden
mill, occupied in part as o sawmill. was next
crushed BY the seething waters. This was
three and half story building, $50 by 40. The
nood IN Its course took Selectmau W. +. Quigley's
house down the current o few rods, leaving only
the old part on the site. IN this L part Mrs.
Quigley, two daughters and Miss Marble, q teacher
at the Leeds school, were sitting, having just
completed breakfast. They new into the upper
story and so escaped. 1t was while they were
standing here that the main part OF the house
parted from their
TOWER or SAFETY,
leaving them with q thin partition 70 fence out
the surging sea. Gazing out OF q window they saw
Walter Humphreys on the roof Of q house, that
appeared as ship on the sea. Happily it noated
near the window, and Miss Nellie Quigley and
Miss Marble raised the window. grasped him and
drew him into the little harbor that bravey stood
out the storm, and he was saved, Mr.. Humphreys
knows nothing OF the way he came upon the roof
His family, wife and two children and an
aged lady, were all saved. Mrs. Humphreys
was surprised by the food, and she
and the old lady took each child and
stood upon bed, holding the little ones above the
waves that were clamoring for mora life to des.
troy. These women In saving others were saved
themselves. the iron bridge was carried away
and from this point the waters poured down into
the drowned villages, bearing on its bosom the
form OF destruction. House after house crumbIed
in an instant The old residence Of Thomas Mus
Grave, who was killed some months Ago on the
Morris and Essex railroad, was among the first
to fall and not whit Of 1t remains. One
house lodged by . large maple tree and
another dovetaied into an adjoining build
ing. Frederick Clough, foreman at
the button factory, heard the roar OF the coming
flood and FASTENED to Mrs. Bonney's house, and,
as IL were, commanded all those present there to