The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-08-08


building occupied as a beer hall was
moved from its foundation, foated di-
rectly across the street, completely OBJ
structing the way.
1t is estimated that in this district
about seventy dwelling houses We're de-
stroyed, but no estimate has been made
of Their value. A large number Of yeo-
pie are missing. 1t is Thought many
bodies are still in the debris. AS fast
as recovered, they are taken to various
undertakers In the city, and SO are now
known to have come from this district.
Spring Garden Run lies in the south
of Butchers Run. 1t is separated by
high Hill. In this valley the same
scenes were enacted, on a smaller scale
as regards loss of life 1t would benin
possible to give anything like detailed
account Of damage done to dwelling
houses in this vicinity. Those which
were not totally destroyed were very
greatly damaged.
Beyond Cedar avenue fortunately
there were but few lives lost, at least as
far as could be ascertained Some two
or three are reported.
At the foot Of Spring Garden Run
the loss of life was fearful.
In Kasper Raves saloon, along with
others, were Philip Hess, a constable,
and Hy Schafer. They rushed out Of
the saloon into the street, and that was
the last seen Of them alive. Another
man also rushed from the Paris saloon
with Hess and Schaffer. His body was
recovered in the yard between Chestnut
and Center streets.
About one mile ont on the Run a man
named VIM. Peats, tied his family,
wife and several children, with & clothes
line in a room, fearing some of them
would rush away IN their alarm, and be
lost The house and the entire family
were saved.
Three -fourths Of a mile up the Run
the breast Of the food would give
cross section of / feet in height, and
$50 feet in width. and by the time it had
reached the city limits it had assumed
the proportion OF the NH River food.
| The number Of persons lost IS JmdOubt-
| eddy considerably more than already re
! covered. At Woods Run, on the same
side of the river as Butchers and Spring
/ Garden, and four miles west of them, at
| the head, two houses We're swept away.
A number Of other buildings were
washed away.
/ Several bodies. q terrible sight, lie at
| McCaskey and McChesney's livery
stable near the scene on the south of
the Ohio river. Temperanceville was
/ the heaviest sufferer. A narrow stream
/ from a saw mill run. empties into the
OHIO. Up this stream, hardly Il vestige
OF two iron bri igcs remains. Stones
three feet thick by five feet long, were
/ torn from the abutments, and carried
down stream like pieces Of cork. Five
wooden bridges, and three trestle works
over the same stream were also swept
/ away. The gas0mcter at the gas works
was also badly injured. G.. S. and J.
+ G. Taylor's salt works are also a COM
plete wreck loss SO, 900.
/ AT Brooks, Palantines 4 Co. S retin-
ing tanks, two stills, the two worms of
! three hundred and fifty feet Of pipe,
are swept away. A brick store near
/ Washington turnpike, owned by Geo.
I II Gumbel. was struck by the food
and melted away. Nothing can nOwb be
/ seen where It stood, save pool Of wa
/ ter The lot on which the store build
/ ing stood has also disappeared, the
/ course Of the ran here being changed 50
that its bed is now where the building
was formerly located, above the forks
! Of the run. Sixteen buildings and fifty
coal cars were destroyed. Seven bodies
/ have been taken out and twenty-six are
missing, supposed drowned.
In Charters Valley, 4 stream which
runs parallel with Saw Mill Run, empties
into the Ohio three miles below, tie
! loss of life is reported to be very great.
/ All the little runs emptying into Char
| tiers creek became rushing rivers. On
/ Brush Run the fences and bridges are
all gone. and great deal of valuable
property destroyed. Theloss Of human
life has been frightful. At McLaugh-
Inns Run eleven persons were drowned.
| During the flashes Of lightning, horses
and cattle, and animals Of all kinds
could be seen floating in the torrent,
and their bellOwings of terror could be
heard above the roar of the flood.
The most carefully prepared figures,
however, give the total losses of life ut
2I9. With regard to property tits simply
impossible to give an idea shat can be
considered reliable.