The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-19

top Of the hill he turned moment and looked
up tho valley; soon he B8w loIty white wan
running down on Hatfield mill; ID struck the
MIL and lon nothing visible but the roof sur.
Eoanded oy white ioAm;; Another moment and
no distinctly Eaw The mill swim yard o. two,
then disappear and leave no trace, and on easne
the white WAL, kissing and tAundCrIng, Ran.
some uttered q cry Of horror, and Raloped mGdly
forward 70 cave what lives he might, AS he
galloped along his mind worked. He obicrved
Lne valley wider IN places, and h0 hoped the
lying lake would spread and 20 lose sons Of that
Tremendous volume and force before which
chad seen Hatfield stone mill 60 down. With
THIS nope, no Galloped on and reached Poma
bridgc, dvo miles ind A.hAIf from tho reservoir
Here 70 his dIsmay, he heard tho hlSslnT,
halted on tho hill above Damn IPk, bnt he could
sec nothing, owing 10 . turn In the valley,
Then hO dashed across the bridge, AZ he ecFoSs.
cd It, he caught sight Of tho lying lake once
moro. Ho had gone over more ground, but he
haa gone no further. He saw tho white wall
window now. He saw the Iarm house, with Us
one light, swim bodily, then melt, and dlsSp.
pear with all thepOor souls In Il.
The scene alter the subsidence Of tho
waters Is thus portrayed:
All landmarks werO gone; houses. trees, hedS-
%, all swept away; roads covered three feet with
pleasant valley was ono horrid QuGgmire, 10
which hG could take few steps, without sticking
or stumbling against some AuIe sign OF dcstruc.
tIOn and death. Within tho compass Of alty
yards he found steam boiler and It's appurten.
auceg. They must have weighed some IONS yet |
they had been driven more than o milc-and |
dead COW and tho body ola wagon turned upside |
doWn-the wheels OF the Bame wagon were |
aIterWard found fifteen miles from tho body, /
= soon aItef thiS, they came under shott sturdy
and crooked branches was something white |
They came nearer; II was dead body: some
poor man or woman hurled from sleep 70 OteE.
nifty. A little further they saw, Atsome distance,
two cottages In roR, both Quilted and Cmpued.
Anold man was alone in one, seated on the
ground floor In the deep mud. They went to
MIN and asked what they could do for him.
''DOH Why let me die," eAid he. "Let tho
water take melt has taken al had.h When
they aeked after his neIghbors he said he belleV.
Cd they were ali drowned. BE had been out when
the aood came. Further on, and they came to tho
reindeer, where he had heard the boon compGn.
Ions singing, over thels graves, for that night
long before tho cock did crow or the day dawn,
their mouths were full Of water and mud, and
not the barley breG. TO know their fate needed
but glance ct tho miserable, shAttered, gutted
fragment OF the inn that kt0od. There was n
chimney, triangular piece OF rOot, quarter Of
the inside Of one second door room, with all tho
boards gone, and the others hanging down per.
pendicularly or sticking mp at an angle OF iOrty-
I've. kVen on tho side f1rthost from tho h01d,
Inc water had hacked and plOwed away At the
wall so deeply that tho miserable wreck had q
agged waist, no bigger IN proportion than q
FAsp's. Between PonA Bridge and tho arst
'ublrb Of HlllsbOrou2h, the place was like q
)1ttle 1eld; not that many had been droWned on |.
he spot, but those drowned up the valley by
he flood at Its highest, they had been brolPht
lown and deposited in the thick layer OF mud
CIT by the ab9t1ng waters. Some were cruelty
'ashed and manHled by tho hard objects Win /
which they had come In contact. Others wore q i
,eaCelul expression, and had color in their
heelts. Ono wNsA lovely little girl, with her
title hands before her face 10 keep o2t the sight
i death.