, 1874-07-28
CHICAGO, TUESDAY, JULY ~, 1874.
sent he doatod somo 500 teos, finally climbing
out bv means OF 4 friendly tree

Among tho housea struck by tho water was d
ANAL ma frame, occupied by tho Dlllonn and their
tho numLor Of nino aoula. Away apod
this little s1k, bufreted severely by tho
mhnaos Of timber aud rumblfnR stones. Ono
entiro side Ia battered out, and tho water stands
mono OF the inmates Of tho dlminutive house
woro drowned. a provfdonttally y-p!aced ntump
anchored tho floating domicilo, and al| escaped.
:, Muiont directly IN tho path Of the flood Stands
rRErry LITTLE rREspYTEn1AN CHURCH.
But for au Intervening building this church
must hayo boen totally destroyed. Az it was,
Tho ontirc frame odiilce measuring about 81 BY
glance insde tho building showed tho wallis
to BIO somewhat cracked. but otherwise the
building seemed unar,1ed The floor WAS Boa
Of mud 10 the depth OF inches, and tne te'l.tato
clock pointed unerriugy to tic hour aud minute
| OF tho awful ocorrrence-8:50.
THE HuMnEH or HORSES AND cows DROWNED
| In this small region ts large Tho loss Of 1tfo
aud dcstruetion Of property out Spring Gardon
aycnpe was not 50 serious as on O'Hara strool
and out Butchers Hun. For moro than
, milo out Spring Carbon avonuo. how
eyer, marka .of doasruction aro plainly
buildings thrown together in heaps. It Ia re-
ported Tint not single slaug1tcr-houbo on this
avenue, :bogond Cedar avenue remains, and
would be impossible !. tho present writing to
give anything like q detailed account Of tho
damage done TO dwelling houses In this vicinity.
Those that were not totally destroyed wero worry
| greatly damaged, and tho
WATEa RISING 70 HEIGHT or soME FIFTEEN
oodod tho frat floors Of ali tho buildings, md
very nsny saSos fod s Ts It, thr9ngh qra
| the hills WeTo washed into the building, and
left thotn nearly all a mnss Of filth, ronioriug
tho furniture and household of1octs almost
totally useless: poyond Cedar eevenqe. how
| at least a. fnr US could DO asccrtained. Some
two or thseo arc reported. man named
Michael Slaughter Was In ssahlor's tavern about
Lalf-past o'clock. When tho danger BECAME
rushed through tho door into tho street. Ho
/ has not BEEN heard Of since, and ho mud tho
| Child nre
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DRowHED.
| It was n mattor OF serious difficulty for newB-
paper mon to got the names OF parties who, wore
| lost; or supposed to DO drowned. Persons wero
unable to give tho nnmoa Of the atroatB they
lived On. and parties living next door to families
that we1e drowned failed to recolloot the name
| Of their unfortunate friends. A hired man, in
tho employ OF one Kutz, who bad a slaughter
house out on the ayouue, is supposed to hnye
been
IN tho falling Of tho houao. which Was com
pletely destroyed. Tho man lodged into tho
building. A Bon Of Dir. Timothy is missing, and
thera d very little doubt that ho was either
t is reported shst ito family of air. Slaughter
| nas also drowned. -
The lose Of life has boon appalling.
In tho upper end Of Allegheny tho loss Of lifo
doad bollos had been recovered from tho ruins,
aud 1t H. probable fully o. many moro have
been lost- III thu Woods Run dlatrict niuo
persons arc missing; and five bodies have
district bodies have been recovered, and ST
are still missing. Theae will make total Of GO
bodies recovered, and
TIE TOTAL supPosED TO BE Los2
will make nn aggregate OF 142 lives.
Out in tho neigh6orhood Of the glue. factory,
on Spring Garden avenue, lived tie family or
August Nynkoop. Two Of lis children wore
l9ss-: Tho Oldest child was found this morning;
Spring Carbon Run, near the intersection Of
Oentre avenue and spring Garden avenue, and
on Chestnut and o'Hara streets, !:
| TIE I0sB OF LIFE WAS FEARFUL.
j In tWo or three inHtapcos houses were swept
into the middle Of the .streets. In other casca
they wese carried hundreds Of yards away,
while IN still othcr cases roofs were torn of and
hurled to the atreet, houses were thrown On their
nides, and eomo shattered To- piocos, 4 fright
tul loss Of lilo waR brought about
= ma SINGLE HOUSE,
right to the rear Of Centre street, near the juno
tlon Of Spr1ng Garden avenue. Nobody seemed
to know the names OF tue parsons.
Ihoro were perhaps two or three fam,-
lies living ,in the house; at least
this la tne op1n!0n o. some Nho !Ve ~ Tug
ne'gnoornooo. 1ne @ hfat pattles VINO appeared
hanging on to the roof OF house on the right
hauo sloa towatas ann near epslaK taIaan ave-
nue.. AZ Aat tino the watef on tae stIees ,': Wae
som9 nieeon toet hlens. InoY LOOK Inc akan uliS
told him to drop. the height being but small as
tue SILT vas nearly On leYol With tue second
stofy wlnaoW.
=. THE MAN 5uM1ED AND WAS aAvED:
/ Fla the1 told thu A1tif that his fQfnt1{
wore back In tho houae. . famDy consisting o1
wife aud three or four children. He got on tue
roof and jumped from that onto another roof
Whon he reached Centre street tho house wnt
destroyed, and with 1t Were lost mother will
throe or four children, aud the ,ehtldren Of an
+ other fArni!y. ..
MAKING n ALI. ONE WOMAN AND NINE CHILDREN
strango to say. no one knows'"hothey were.
On Cheatnut street, ID Oaspar Nause's saloon
among others were Philip Hess, q Constable
attached to AID. D: L. Smlth'e Office h.ld