The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-19

his wife. He was turned away from his |
purpose, and the girl, with no one to guide |
her, allowed him to go to the church to see
the bodies, and see If their relatives could |
not be recognized among the inanimate |
forms being dressed for burial AS people !
looked about them and heard recited the
narrowing tales which would seem like cx
aggerateG stories miles from the scene
many evnced calousness hardly to he
looked for, and not fit to be repeated.
Sunday was to have been
MEMORIAL DAY Al HAYDENyILLE.
Acting Gov Talbot and other gentlemen
arrived Saturday to participate in the cere
monies only in time to witness the terrible
disaster. 1t is n memorial indeed for all
time to the terribly stricken inhabitants.
AS stated, Gov. Talbot and friends came
Saturday. They were in part trustees Of
the estate, and were to have made a settle
ment of the affairs during the day. APP
| preciating to all possible extent the calami-
| ty these gentlemen called a meeting in the
church which the benetactor of the town
had reared, and took upon themselves the
management of the organization. Tie gov
ernor, in a way as clcctrifying as eloquent,
spoke to them who could aid their needy
fellows, and Immediately drew forth all the
money he had with him, $500. Others Of
his company gave what they had, and
temporary committee was appointed to act
as the relief committee Of the district.
THE FINDING OF THE DEAD AT FLORENCE.
1t was not a hard matter to find them,
for all about bruised and torn, they lay.
half buried in the sand and debris Oyer
in Warmers meadow they found Mrs.
Brunette of Leeds. and not far away her
daughter and son, the latter, buried four
feet under pile of timbers. So the search
went on, bringing to light mother here, a
brother near by, and a husband or an limo.
cent little babe in another place. As fast
us the bodies were discovered they were
carried to William Warmers carpenter
shop, and laid in rows for identification.
At nine o'clock this morning We found in
Warmers 1S bodies, some collined others
covered with sheets, awaiting Identification
and while looking upon the terrible scene
before Us the shop door was opened and an
other body was brought in. that of 4 boy
about years old. One of the bystandors
remarked to another, an elderly man, "Is
not that your little boy" He answered
Eyes, it Is Eddie, but that is only one of
them; :" and when the body was placed ON
the floor, the father knclt down, elapsed its
little head in his hands, looked upon its
cold face, as if imploring word Of
utterancc from its lips. and after crossing
its hands over the breast. and Strengthening
its stilienod limbs, stood with unutterable
grief gazing upon all that was left Of his
boy. Then the body was covered with a
coarse cloth and the grief-strickcn man
moyed away, silently wipng the tears from
his face. Florence when compared with the
other villages through which the terrible
flood surged, may he said to have escaped
serious damage.
, \ PARTIAL SUMMING IT. OF THE loss.
Fifteen bridges arc gone, twelve factories
t and seventy-liyc dwellings We're swept
7 away, and 400 people are left homeless.
Hundreds Of horses and cattle were droWnd,
and thousands Of acres of lard covered
2 with debris
The town of Northampton loses about
| $500 in bridges and roads. The loss of
l Williamsburg and lIaydenyillc cannot be
Y estimated as yet.
| Eight cases of insanity have followed
e among those VINO have lost relatives and
friends and three were committed to tho
asylum in northampton.
: INoIDENTs.
The flood in its course took scectman "
f Quiolcy's house down the current a few
rods leaving only the old L part on the
site. In this l. part Mrs. Quigley, two
daughters and Miss Marble, a teacher at tho
; Leeds school, were sitting, having Just
completed breakfast. They fled into the
upper story and so escaped. 1t was while
they were standing here that the main part
of the house parted from their tower OF
safety, leaving them with Il thin partition
to fence out the surging sea- Gazing out
of a window they saw Walter Humphrey.
=; on the roof of house that appeared as
ship on the sea happily it tioated neal
the window, and Miss Nellie Quigley and
Miss Marble raised the window, grasped
him and drew him into the little arbor that
g bravely stood out the storm, and lie was
saved. Mr.. Humphreys knew nothing OF
: the way he came on the roof. His family
a Wife and two children and an aged lady
/ were all saved. Mrs. Humphreys was sur
/ prised by the flood, and she and the old
: lady took each child and stood upon q
g bed, holding the little ones above the waves
S that were claiming for more lives to de-
stroy. These women in saving others were
t saved themselves.
| The first warning the people of Florence
e had of the approach of the flood was
brought by the brave Myron Day, who
with the flood roaring behind him, dashed
his horse down through the valley warning
s jewellers along the stream AID the opera.
f tives in the mills with his quick, sharp cry
e ''Run for your lives run for your lives =
: 1t was a little past eight o'clock Saturday
4 morning when he dashed into Florence
e startling the echoes with his wild alarm
1 For moment the people hestatcd, scarce
Y ly believing that the man could be in his
= senses, but his manner soon infected them
| and it was well for them that it did They
fled to the high ground with all possible
: | who
e the torrent swept through and onward to-
1 ward Northampton 1t was the work of q
c few moments, and then the waters receded
< rapidly, and the men of Florence bent
themselves to the sorrowful task OF looking
G for the dead bodies.
S One of the saddest cases was that OF
three French children, none of them over
nine years old, who sat amoung the living
and dead in Mr.. Warmers house at Leeds
c and told questioners that they had los
l three sisters, brother and their mother
but their father was safe and attending to
} some of the dead people, but many wei
knew he was among the dead also, yet
= none had the heart to break the terrible
ones have b5en adopted by Mr.. IIillett, one
of the oyerseers of the silk factory.
One little child was found alone in the
street, where it had been at play All its
relations had been lost. The search for thC
dead was made with the utmost kindness
and the bodies were taken up and borne
away with unspeakablc sorrow. Many of
the victims were sadly disfigurcd arms
! and limbs were broken, and their bodies cut
! and gashed by the falling timbers and
debris. 1t was sickenng sight to see the
long hair of women matted with mud and
dirt. Many spectator looked on and