The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-27

them away. aud she was compelled To
remain in the house, and so escaped.
Mr. Raymond, employedin Mr. James
mill, saw his house sail by, ana OF
course, expected That his family were
with it, but they. not second too soon,
hearing the roar of the impending HOOD,
had escaped to knoll some four rods
in the rear of their home.
Mr.. S. Gage, the head machinist at
James mill, interestingly tells his ex.
periences. He was in the basement OF
the mill when the cry came, Run for
your lives the reservoir has broke y
Then some % of the operatives passed
over the bridge to the hill, about eight
rods distant, only just quick enough,
for the structure crumbled almost under
their feet one second more, he says
would have swamped them.
Three mem. Nj. Stephenson and
two new hands whose names are not
known-fearing the boarding house in
which they were with number of others
would give way, despite the entreaties
of their associates, left it and climbed
a apple tree near by. The latter fell
under them and they were drowned,
while those at the clearinghouse re-
NAMED unharned. One man ventured
upon the roof of the boarding house,
and, though it crumbled under him, he
chung to it and saved his life. John
Atkins, foreman of the weaving-room,
died in saving the lives of his wife and
two children.
A COW foated down from Williams
burgh to Florence, and escaped with
only broken horn.
One of the saddest cases was that of
three French children, none of them
over nine years old, who sat among the
living and dead in Mr.. Warmers house
at Leeds, and told questioners that they
had lost three sisters, a brother and
their mother, but their father was safe
and attending to some of the dead peo-
pie. But many who listened to them
knew that the father, as well as the
brother and sisters, was among the dead,
yet none had the heart to break the
terrible news TO the children. Two of
the little ones have been adopted by
Mr. Hallett, one of the overseers of the
silk factory.
One lucky little boy got safe ride
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dwelling was picked up by the flood,
somewhere between Leeds and Florence,
and went over the dam right side up,
landing some distance below on the
flats. There SOMEBODY spied this novel
conveyance, and took the boy out, safe
and sound.
One of the saddest casualties among
the lower classes was that of Mr. Edward
Mocker. an aged Irishman living near
the bridge at Haydenville. He was
standing in front of his house when he
discovered the water approaching, and
in trying to enter and save his wife and
helpless boy he was overpowered by
the flood and drowned. Mrs. Mocker
grasped the youth in her arm and strug-
gled for dry land, but was twice
knocked down and badly wounded by
floating rubbish, but although badly
wounded size chung to her invalid boy,
and stood waist-deep in the water for an
hour until the flood subsidized. Men
then came to her rescue, moving her to
comfortable quarters, but in moving the
boy he was by some means dropped in
the road, and this, with the exposure
and shock, it was thought, would short
ly cause his death. The boy fell on the
ice, last winter, spraining his ankle, and
being unable to move, his legs were
frozen before being discovered, and he
has been helpless invalid ever since.
The mothers lament, Saturday night,
when applying at the town hall for bed
clothing, was more piteous. After de-
scribing her husbands vain attempt to
reach her, she REQUIRED to her sick boy.
90 % cried she, "that should live to
see this night An the boy cried to me,
Sure you won't leave me, mother, to
be carried in the flood, an rushed and
snatched him out of bed, and got out
between the houses. and as God hears
me, couldn't get further, an L stood
there an the boy in my arms an the
water going over me. And / was
knocked from here wild a timber that
hit me on my leg and again in the breast,
but I'm alive and 1 saved the boy, but
he'll die the mornin', and the mans
gone. Edwards gone. Oh, but for the
rainy morning, he'd been here at work
and saved. Oh, my darling, my dar-
ling, God help us. "