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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, May 1.-THE
latest figures of the loss of life by the
| breaking OF the williamsburg reservoir,
| make 9 total of one hundred and forty
| four, divided az follows between the
| three places: Williamsburg, sixty
Leeds, forty-nine; Haydenville, thirty
/ five. These figures only represent per-
SONS whose loss is pos. ively known,
! though the bodies of all are not yet re-
| covered. Bodies are constantly being
| found, and, in some cases, those Of per-
sons who were not supposed to be lost;
SO that it seems perfectly safe TO say that
| the total loss of life will exceed one hum
dred and fifty, if, indeed, it does not
| more nearly approach two hundred. The
! following are lists, for each village, of
persons who are known to be missing
AT WILLIAMSBURG.
Mrs. Kingston, S. Bartlett, Viola B.
! ColIyer. w. T. J, Hitchcock, VIM. H.
Adams, Widow Ann Snow, Willie Til
| ton, Mrs. VIM. Carter, r. J. LOuchOne,
! Mrs. Em. Chandler and daughter May,
| jeremiah Ward, Widow Electa Knight,
Mrs. Patrick Heally and two children,
Widow Mary Brennan, Alex Roberts,
wife and two children; Mary Anne Nc
| Gee, Mrs. George E. Hams, Z. G. Hub
| bard, Mrs. Merrick Wood and child, of
! Chicopee: Mike Burke and three chill
! dren Of Jas Burke, Fredriek Bird, Jas.
| Stephens, Mrs. w. d. Adams and son
/ Willie, Mrs. Eliza Downing and daugh-
ter, Widow Downing, Henry Birming-
! ham, widow and three children; Mrs.
/ E. s. Kingsley, Mrs. E d. Kingsley and
| two children, DR.. Z. w. johnson, wife
and three children; Widow Johnson,
/ Frank Murray and wife, Geo. Ashley,
| John Atchinson, Spencer Bartlett and
vile, Geo. Ashley, Mrs. Geo. E. Lamb,
| Frank Train and wife-sixty-one.
AT sKINNERvILLE,
Mrs s.'Jerome,Hellman, Mrs. J. Hill, Eli
Bryant, Robbie Hayden.
AT HAYDENvLLE.
Mrs. Norris and daughter, Miss Jennie
Williams, Francis Brodeur, John
Kaplinger, Mrs. Rogan, Edward Mack
Ter, Mrs. Mosier, Mrs. John Wilson, and
three children, Mrs. POsey and her mar
ried daughter, Mrs. Antonio Brasier,
and two other children, Mrs. Messie,
her two young children, and married
daughter, Mrs. Napoleon Benvil, with
daughter; two little children of Edwin
Thayer, three children of Samuel Miller,
Michael Burke and Archibald Lancou-
bic.
1t is utterly impossible as yet to give
detailed estimate of the losses. Aside
from the buildings destroyed and dam
aged, bridges have been carried away,
roads ruined AMI hundreds of acres of
meadow land rendered almost valueless.
THE TOTALLOss
must far exceed 81 200, 600, and will
probably come nearer 81, ,000,0 600. The
following is a general estimate of losses
by places in Williamsburg: w. II. Avon
ISIS Touring mill, swept away, $40, 600;
II. l.. James's mill, damaged and left
without water-power, S25,OOO; houses,
barns, etc, $4,000. At SkinnervIlle,
VIM. SINNERS silk factory and twelve
tenement houses were destroyed, at a
loss of Sl30, COO; other houses and barns,
S13, 600. At Haydenville, Hayden,
Gere & Co.'s brass works, savings bank
build ngs and tenements were swept
away at loss of $3.50, 600; Hayden to-
baccO company's mill, carried off, S70,-
600; Hayden foundry and machine
company's works, damaged, $1,000;
other houses and stores, $50, GOO; gas
works, 5000. At Leeds, the Nanatuck
silk company's dam was broken, and
several buildings and houses were car
ried away at q loss of SIS, 600; George
Warmers button factory, was destroyed
and three tenements, 500, 600; other
houses, barns, etc, 1900. At
Northampton, the Emery wheel COM
pany were damaged $1,000. At Florence,
the Florence Manufacturing compaDy's
brush factory was damaged in stock
$1,000, and the Nanatuck silk cOmpany's
silk mill was partially torn away and
stock damaged $1,000. The damage to
the town of Williamsburg by the loss
of bridges, great destruction of roads and
the complete ruin of the best meadow
lands is at present incalculable, but it is
such as to seriously cripple the town.
Three iron bridges were carried away in
the village of Williamsburg; one wooden
and two iron bridges in the village of
Leeds. In the village of Florence, one
iron and two wooden bridges were
swept away. The following is conf
plete list of those missing from
THE VILLAGE or LEEDS:
Mrs. Patrick, Charles Patrick and his
wife, Miss Julia Patrick and her sister,
Mrs. Dunlea and her daughter, Mr.. Fitz-
gerald and two children, Charles and
Annie, two children of John Clancy,
Mrs. Jane Cogan, Misses Annie and
Grace Cogan, Andrew Fennessy, wife
and two children, Mrs. Louis Bronette
and seven children, Mrs. Hurley, Miss
Carrie Bonney, James Fennessy and
wife, Lizzie Charpentier, Mary Rose,
Patrick O'NeIl, Alexander Lancier,
Ralph Isham, Ira Dunning, Samuel Da-
Wis, Mr.. Smith, Arthur Sharp, boy,
Mrs. O'Shaughancy, Mrs. E. Harmon
and three children, Mrs Sarah J. Ryan
and child, Miss Evelyn Sherwood, Cap
tain TT. Vaughn, Miss Mary Wood
ward, Nellie Fennessy.
1t appears that serious doubts as to the
safety of the reservoir have been enter
tanned ever since it was built, nine years
ago, though less in the last year or two
than in its early history. The gatekeep-
er has several times expressed his fears
to his employers, calling special atten-
ton once to
TEeE POINT WHERE THE BREAK oC-
CURRED,
but examiners always reported every
thing safe, and the direct cause of the
disaster, aside from general weakness
ef the dam, must remain subject OF
speculation. Perhaps as satisfactory a
story as any is the one advanced by q
man familiar with the case, that frosts
had started the earth so the water had
found numerous little courses through it,
which finally carried off the first mass
of earth Saturday morning, and at once
preclpitated the catastrophe.
THE DESTITUTE.
The citizens of Williamsburg held
town meeting Saturday evening and
appointed committee to raise subscrip-
tions, look after the destitute and organ
ize the search for the missing. North
ampten and the adjoining towns have
been sending in supplies of food, cloth
Ing and money since the disaster, and
contributions were taken up for the
| snffarare in churches fhrnnohni1t west