The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-22

International Screw * Nail Co., employ
ing 75 hands, and the large basket factory
of the Williams Manufacturing Co., en-
ploying about 100 hands also the Skinner
Silk Mill, EN- mploying so or 60 hands.
Besides these here are some half dozen
erisU and saw mills, some of them of con-
siderable capacity, which are within the
range of the devastation.
THE MANUFACTURING CAPITAL INVESTED
along Mill River, and affected by this dis
aster, laying it at the lowest estimate,
must be five million dollars, and the imme-
dinte population suffering is about five
thousand. The population is almost Who'll
ly manufacturing one, which has grown
up around the dams.
THE HEAVIEST LOSS
by this disaster will fall upon the estate of
the late Ex-Governor Hayden, who died
a few months since. One of the mills was
recently sold by the executors of the ss-
tate.
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
Sunday had been set apar. by Hayden
Vile for memorial services in memory of
the late Lieutenant Governor, when all tho
members of the family were expected to be
present.
SPRINaFIRLD, May 16.-At Leeds, Dun
ming, an old man, was drowned, with sew
eral others in the Warner Button Factory;
also, Ralph J. Shaw, whose body has not
been found French family of six chill
dren Mrs. Fitzgerald and children Ed
ward Harmons, wife and four children
General Davis, Patrick o. Neil, Mrs. Hick-
ey, whose daughter was swept away, but
recovered, and will survive Evaline Sher-
wood, body found A.; Mrs. Bonny and two
children.
Twelve houses at Leeds were swept
away. Part of the silk mill is gone.
The following is a list of the drowned ut
Haydenville a: Mr.. Caplinger, shoemaker;
Jacob Hill, Mrs. Jerome Hillman, three
children of Samuel Miller, two children of
Z. II. Thayer, = boy named Brodeur, Mr..
Hitchcock, Captain Joseph Hayden's son.
At Haydenville aud Leeds the dwellings
not destroyed are turned into charnel
houses and hospitals. At Haydenville :he
stores of 9. Traves Eames and G. Rice are
swept away. At Williamsburg Superin-
tendant Birmingham, DR.. Johnson. wife
and children, and Z. Hubbul were drown
ed. Twenty bodies were discovered
at two o clock, three of which are at North
amptou Turner Hall and fourteen at Flor
ence.
MEN BECOMING INSANE.
NEW HAVEN, May IA man was pick
ed up from tree, upon which he had rid
den six miles on the torrent, cheering and
waving his coat. The poor fellows mind
was gone. No less than eight cases of in
sanity followed among those who have lost
relatives and friends by this terrible calam-
ity, and three were committed to the asy-
lum in Northampton.
SAVING THE DEAD.
The gracious work of saving the dead
from their burial began at noon yesterday.
At SkinneIsville the first bodies were pick
ed up, dug from mud or taken with diff
Guilty from overloaded ruins. All through
the valley the work went on till night, and
then men with lanterns, seeking their
dead, stood guard. At Haydenyille forty
bodies were gathered 10y night at Leeds
forty-tive. There ha6 been in the after
noon
GANGS OF PLUEDERERs
promptly turned to workers by no stinted
threats. The people were ready to brain
them with the first stone.
There were fewer dead at Florence and
Northamton, one hundred and forty in all,
and many more are certainly buried in the
mud and rubbish that fill the valley with
black heaps from Williamsburg to North
ampton.
HOUSES BLOTTED OUT OF EXISTENCE.
At Williamsburg factory and twenty
seven houses were blotted out. At Hay
denyille a factory, gas house, a cotton
mill, bank and one hundred buildings
at Leeds button factory and twenty-five
buildings; at SkiuneTVille every house is
gone, except Mr.. SINNERS own. Such
houses as are set down as gone are ut
terly vanished and distributed i'll shreds
not a piece over six feet long-over miles
of country. The ''Licking-water river"
as they call it, has been a sea, and is now
a trickling stream, lost in miles of mud
The lake, hemmed in by defective masonry
up among the Goshen hills, has done its
work terribly.
THE LATEST FIGURES OF LOSS OF LEE.
SPRINeFIELD, May 1.-THE latest fig
ures of loss of life makes total of one
hundred and fifty four as follows, between
the three places Williamsburg, sixty
Leeds, forty-nIne Haydenville, thirty
i've. The figures only represent persons
whose loss is positively known, though the !
bodies of all are not yet recovered. Bod |
les are constantly being found, and in
some cases those of persons who were not
to be lost, so that it seems per-
fectly safe 30 say that the total loss of life
will exceed one hundred and fifty, if indeed
it does not more nearly approach two hun
dred.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
1t appears that serious doubts as to the
safety of the reservoir have been entertain
ed ever since it was built, nine years ago,
though less the last year or two than in its
early history. The gate-kseper has sever
al times expressed fears to his employers,
calling special attention once to a point
where a breach occurred, but the examin-
ers always reported everything safe. The
direct cause of the disaster, aside from
general weakness of the dam must remain
a subject of speculation. Perhaps as salts
factory a theory as any is the one ad-
vanced by man familiar with the case,
that frosts had started the earth SO that
the water had found numerous little
courses through it, which finally carried
off the first mass of earth on Saturday
and at once precipita:ed the ca
tastrophe.
STILL LATER.
SPRINGFIELD. May 1S.-Thousands of |
people have gone from this city and sur
country to Northampton and the |
scene of the Mill river devastation to-day. |
Search for the dead bodies has been going /
on all day, and will be continued under the |
best possible management for several days, /
and, perhaps, even weeks. The meadows
are so deeply covered with debris, result
ing from destruction, that it is feared many
dead bodies are yet undiscovered. A num-
ber have been recovered to-day, and it is
now thought yesterdays estimate of two
hundred lives lost may fall even below the
actual truth