The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-28


the body OF IA female and bodies of seven chi
dren (three boys and four girls) have not V,
been identified; Mrs John Schnaspfer an
three daughters, Henry Mattern, wife and tw
children, August Bolster, son OF Alderma
: Bolster.
A young man named Hubbard was browne
while attempting to rescue family ON Obi
street; Emma Rikoff. aged five, a son of job
Shearing aged four, little girl, apparent
five years, not identified, Mr.. and Mrs HUFF
nagle the body of boy named Huber
e Spring Garden Avenue lies to the south o
g Butchers Run, and is separated by hig
g hill.
1 In this valley the same scenes We're enacte
e on a smaller scale, as regards the loss of life
e 1t would be impossible to give anything lik
. a detailed account of damage done to tn
dwellings in this vicinity Those not total,
destroyed Were greatly damaged. Beyon,
, Cedar Avenue fortunately there were but fey
lives lost, at least as far as could be ascer
) tained still some two or three are reported.
Michael Slaughter was in a tavern abou
nine o'clock. When the danger became APP
parent, he seized child in his arms ant
) rushed through the door into the street Boil
) are supposed to have been drowned.
At the foot Of Spring Garden Run the los
of life was fearful. On Centre street., parties
who appeared with a skitf, discovered MAJ
hanging on the roof Of a house, the water a
that time was some fifteen feet high.
They took the sktf under the place where
the man was hanging and told him to drop,
the distance being Slight. As the skitf was
nearly on level with the second story win
dows, the man jumped and was saved He
then informed the man in the skitf that his
family, consisting Of his wifeand three or fou1
children were back in the house. He got Oh
i al +b,4 10, +1n,.
When he reached Centre street the house
was swept away and the family persisted, to-
gether with the children of another family,
making in all ten souls. On Chestnut street,
IN Casper Rauers saloon, among others were
Philip Hess, a constable and Henry Schaffer;
they rushed out of the saloon into the street;
that the last seen Of them alive. Hess's
body was found this morning, clinging to a
tire-plug with one hand. Schatfers body has
not yet been found.
Another man also rushed from the Paris
Saloon with Hess and Schaffer. His body
was recovered in a yard between Chestnut
and Centre streets, about mile distant. Will
liam Poets tied his wife and several children
with clothes line, in his house, fearing some
Of them would rush away in their alarm, and
be lost. The house and the entire family
were saved
! Three-quarters of mile up the run the
breast Of the flood would give cross section
four feet in height and two hundred and fifty
f ct in width. By the time it had reached the
city limits it had assumed the proportions of
the Mill River food.
The number OF persons lost is undoubtedly
considerably more than already recovered.
At Woods Run, on the same side of the
river as Butchers and Spring Garden and four
miles west of them at the head, two houses
occupied by Pat Farley and Frisbee Denning,
were swept away. Farley saved the families
by means Of rope tied to the hillside. John
German and three children were lost in the
next house. Mrs. German guided by a flash
of lightning, seized gas pipe and escaped
| A number of other buildings We're washed
away, and the food subsidized. One of Cor
mans children was found south Of the railroad
track, and two of Fardens little ones were
discovered baby aged about ten months,
and little boy, aged about ten years -far out
Wilkins Avenue. These five bodies lie ter
rible sight at McCloskeys 4 McChesney's
! livery stable near the scene.
On the south side Of the Ohio River Tenn
peranceville was the heaviest sufferer. Here
a narrow stream, known as Saw Mill Run,
empties in the Ohio. Up this stream hardly
| a vestige remains OF two iron bridges. Stones,
two feet in thickness, by five feet in length,
were torn from their abutments and swept
down the stream like pieces of cork. Five
wooden bridges and three trestles over the
same stream were also swept away.
The gas holders of the gas works were also
badly injured. G. S. 4 J. G. Taylor's salt
works are also complete wreck; loss S25, 900.
At Brooks, Ballantine 4 Co. S refinery three
tanks, two stills and two worms and three
hundred and fifty feet of pipe were swept
away. A brick store near Washington turn
pike. owned by George X. Gumble, and occu-
pied by MIR. Siegler, was struck by the food
and melted away to nothing. Nothing can
now be seen where it stood save a pool of
water
Siegler estimated the loss of stock at about
$4,000, building worth about $4,000, and
building worth about $4,000. The lot on
which the building stood has also disappeared.
The course of the river being here changed,
SO that its bed is now where the building was
formerly located, above the works of the run.
The following buildings were destroyed
Mr.. Vannecker's house, Jos. B. O'Connor's
house, VIM. Stevens house, Stephen Samples
house, Miners Hall, Geo. Alsop's two slaugh-
terhouses, belonging to VIM. Archibald, two
log houses belonging to George Gray, Patten s
Block, consisting Of four houses and Gray &
Bells carpenter and blacksmith shops, and
fifty coal cars. Gray & Bell estimated their
loss at S50, 900, mosly in rolling stock and
mining implements.
The list OF the dead thus far taken out is
as follows: child Ida Hunter, Thos. Brtton
and son, Mrs. Thropp, wife of Isaiah Thropp,
Jno. O'Connor and Betsy Lee, his house
keeper, Mrs Dorathy Semple. The following
persons are missing, supposed to be drowned:
VIM Housley, wife and two children; Thos.
Hunter, wife and three children; Frederick
McVey, wife and three children; the wife of
Thos. Britton Isaiah Tnropp and five chill |
dren, Frank ONeil and daughter, Geo. Jones,
son and daughter
In Charters Valley, stream which runs
parallel with the saw-mill run, and empties
into the Olo three miles belog, tue loss of
life is reported to be great. ALI the little runs
emptying into the CHARTERS Creek became .
rushing rivers
Ga Bash Run the fences AMI bridy as ar all |
gone and a great deal of valu .be property
destroyed Tne loss o; hu N life has been |
frishtfnl. At MeL,nyhlins ran eleven per-
sons were dro wal, an,ly I'm wloie |
family nlmel MtLatn BEN, sw,p5 away.
Toe house Owned by NJ Ssrltton, which !