The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-29

/ In their alarm and be lost. The house an6
entire family were saved. Three qnartefs
Of nile up the run the breast OF the doge
would give cross section four feeti 10 hefghl
and two hundred and j1ffy feet In WidIn
By the fine it had reac he'd the city limits y
had assumed the proportions OF the MI
river food.
Michael Slaughter was la o tavern, about
q o'clock. when the danger became apparent.
He seized child I'd BIS arms and rushed
through the door into the street. Both are
supposed to have been drowned.
PEOPLE MISSING. 10
It is thought many bodies are still III Inc
debris. AS fast as they are recoveren they
will be taken to the various undertakes IN
the CITY. ;Thirty-eight are now known TO
have come from this district. The following
ia a list of names: Mr.. and Mrs. MetZefer,
Conrad Genzlar and wife, Mrs. Mary Con-
Inn. John Winkler, Jacob Scbnatfer, Mrs.
Henry Leopold and four children, Archibald
Arnold the body OF q female, and the
bodies of seven children {three boys and
four girls) have not yet been identified !;
Mrs. John Scbnafier and three daughters,
Henry Waltern, wife, and two children,
August Bolster, son of Alderman Bolster.
The following persons are also missing,
and supposed to be drowned William
Horsley, wife, and two children; Thomas
Hurley, wife, and three children Frederick
McVey, wife, and three children; Mrs. Brit
ton, wife Of Thomas Britton; Isaiah Thropp
and five children; Frank 0'Neilf and daugh.
ter; George Jones. bis son, and daughter.
In Charters valley, on stream Of water
which runs parallel with Sawmill run and
empties into the Ohio river three miles be.
low, the loss of life is reported to be very
great. All little runs emptying into Char
tiers creek became rushing rivers. On Brush
run the fences and bridges are all gone, and
a great deal of valuable property was de.
stroyed.
The loss of human life has been frightful.
at McLaughlin's run eleven persons were
drowned-among them, q whole family
named Mclean being swept away.
A house owned by MIR. Strattop, which
has been standing 100 years, was torn away,
and after being taken down the stream
mile and half Mr.. Stratton succeeded in
making his escape.
During the flashes of lightning horses and
cattle, and animals of all kinds, could be
seen floating in the torrent, and their bel
lowing of terror could be heard above the
flood.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Pittsburgh, July 27.-Accounts of the ter
ribe flood, which has. deluged nearly all the
suburban sections o" the city, as they come
in show that the disaster is far greater than
at first supposed. 1t is now thought the
loss of life will reach fully two hundred per-
sons, and the loss of property be proper.
tionately large.
The Euening Chronicle, in its o'clock
edition, places the loss at 142, and names of
missing parties are continually coming in.
The extent of territory damaged is not less
than from twenty to twenty-five miles in di-
ameter, and how the main portion of the
city of Pittsburgh, lying as it does in the
centre Of this circle, escaped further injury,
appears almost miraculous. The prevailing
theory is that the disaster was caused by
some kind of water-spout.
PITTSBURGH, July 2S--Our papers are filed
with details of the disasters. Over one hum
dred bodies are recovered. The list of dead
in Allegheny is 1875; Lower Allegheny, 8;
Saw-M run, IA; the big branch of Saw.
Mill run, s.; little branch of Saw.Mill run.
Of; CHARTERS creek, 30; other suburbs, Is.
Total 219 s ...