Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-06

difficult to recognize, being badly bruised;
while others are fast turning unrecogniZ-
able, decomposition having set in. Upon
the whole, however, they are in as good
condition as could be expected.
The principal loss will be in the dis
trict above given, but outside this the
damage is heavy; yet, the contrast being
SO great, the minor losses are hardly no
ticed. The destruction of life is the all
absorbing topic, and everyone seems to
be In sympathy with those who have
barely escaped with their own lives only
to learn that their families have persisted
in the maddened waters When realizing
their situations many weep and refuse
to be comforted.
From the heaps Of ruins piled up and
not yet removed it is supposed that
great numbers of dead have not yet
been discovered.
There are twenty-eight bodies lying at
Fairman Il Simpsons, all but two of
| which have been recognized. On the
| floor in the upper room of the establish
ment eleven of the Inflated victims lie,
all of whom are children whose ages
range from two months to five years.
Among the eleven children there is one
that attracts especial attention. 1t is
about eleven months old. Its round,
| dimpled face has not been marred in the
least, and the peaceful smile which lin
| gers sweetly around its mouth almost
| compels the beholder to believe that it
will yet awaken from what seems to be
calm, sweet sleep. AT its side lies Mrs.
Siebert and her four children.
A German visited Fairman & Samson's
undertaking establishment, and there
discovered the bodies of his wife and
four children cold in death. my
GodP' said the man, almost crazed,
"what have l done to have this on
me?" and he knelt down and wept
like child. A young man who had lost
his mother and three sisters in Butchers
Run roamed about there this morning
like mailman, with tears rolling down
his cheeks, and he said: 81 held on to
mother on the street until something fell
from the building, and did not see her
again"
The scene at Woods Run, though
nothing to compare with the Butchers
| Run horror is still sorrowful enough.
Entering the establishment, five dead
bodies were found lying side by side.
| They were James Forden and wife and
their little son, and two children of John
| Dorman, who also lost his wife, but
whose body has not yet been recovered.
| Three children of the Forden family are
still missing. The bodies of Mr. and
Mrs. Forden were found clasped in each
others arms. Mrs. Forden was about
| to become Il mother when she met her
| sad fate.
| Sawmill run on the south side of the
Ohio River also gathered in a harvest of
victims. In some cases whole families
have been swept away by the torrent,
and not single one left to tell the tale;
and many families are to-day mourning
| the loss of father, sister or brother who
have not yet been found, and of whom
nothing is known or can be learned; and
the probability is that majority of
those not found have been washed into
the Ohio River.
| 1t was known that upward of thirty
five were missing along Saw mill Run for
| distance of about two miles, while
there are still many more missing.
| About one mile from the Ohio River,
up Sawmil Run, was found the body
of Mrs Sample, wife of Stephen Sample,
a coal miner Her body had drifted
about one mile from her home to where
it was recovered. When Mr.. Sample
first noticed the rising of the run last
| evening it was between nine and ten
O'Clock, and thinking his home was in
| danger he spoke to his wife and told her
| they had better leave it; but so sudden
| did the torrent come upon them that,
when Mr.. Sample tried to save her and
| their child, the true motherly love
! shone forth in this instance as it has
| done in many others, and she told him
to save the child, which he did and in
| few seconds his wife was carried away,
and he never saw her again until her re-
mains were found Her features like
all others, were terribly bruised, which
shows the swiftness with which the
waters were running.
AT the Thirtyfifth Ward school-house
! lie the bodies of four more of the vic
tins. A father and son lay together
| The fathers name was Thomas Brtton,
about fifty years of age; the sons, VIM.
Britton, a boy of about sixteen years
| These bodies were found near each
other, and of this family, which numbered
six, there have been but two bodies
| found. Agnes Hunter, young girl about
fourteen or fifteen years of age, was also
| found near the two former bodies, and
near by her was the body of Mrs. Eliza
| beth Thropp, wife of Isaiah Thropp; and
never has a calamity set harder on any
| family than on this one. Out of a family
of eight there was not one left The
body of Mrs. Thropp is the only one SO
far recovered Her husband and six
children all found watery grave by the
torrent which dashed their home away
A short distance above the Thirty fifth
Ward schoolhouse were lying the bodies
of Joseph Conner and Betsy Dill. When
they were first found the woman had a
tight grip on the lapel of his coat, and
the inference was that he had been try