Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-22

! thiu "' lHCif desperate struggle 1of llic.
/ Fathers, mothers, brothers aud sisters were
rapidly hurried into eternity, perishing
side by side, making frantic efforts TO rem
der mutual assistance. orc man was car
ried down the stream in company with his
wife, and after leaving the outskirts Of The
| town they were separated, and their bodies
were found subsequently a huff n mile
apart In one Of the tenement houses there
were ten inmates, women and children,
aud all were lost. Tho house was taken
down in the current and dashed to pieces
and the inmates were ne ser seen until their
bodies were recovered, late in the evening
| The head and upper portion Of young
giil's body were found in williamsburg
aud an hour later the Limbs we're found in
| lIaydca>ille milo and half below.
Thc devastation of Williamsburg was
much greater than represented by the first
report. This was the first village into
which the np,dswcpt, aud, Instead of mere.
| ly cutting across one corner of the thicEly-
settled portion, it poured down through the
! very heart of the VILLAGE. Fny-,hrcc lives
/ were lost between its norhornmost portion
/ AVID the depot.
/ II is impossible TO cllcu'aic ON tic Local
! ton Of the victims bodies, a, In almost
/ every instance they were suddenly and rap
I idly hurried along 10y the secthing torrent,
50 that bodies oil Williamsburg people were
I found in llaydcnvillc, and so ON. There
/ is no Guubt tina, some bodies were carried
OF into the Counec lieut. and perhaps new
or will he seen again. The bodies were
tossed about SO wildly and thrown 50 fire.
qucntly in contact with hard substances
that in many cIscs ,hey were stripped al
most naked, and all wcr, badly bruised.
Ia Williamsburg. a good many French
min operatives were lost, u 4 as they were
almost almost total stranger, in the village
their names could not be learned. In
Leeds, the body of Il woman was found in
the fork Of tree, ten feet from the ground
entirely naked with the exception Of lin
en- collar which chung TO her neck.
Ouc Of the saddcsl clses was tliat Of
three French children, nont OF them over
nine years old, who sat among the living
and dead in Mr.. Warmers house, at Leeds,
and told que>tioners that they had lost
three sisters, u brother and their mother.
bat their father was SAFE and attending to
some Of the dead people, hut many well
| knew he was ampaT the dead also, vet
none had the heart to break the terrible
news to the children.
Tlink of a lad comm. home from West
field 10 Leeds Oh a Saturday night. after
his week 5 work. and hearing on the train
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The d'ln was in charge Of George G.
| Cheney, who lived in Il small house near
| by, and who has he'd the position Of gate
keeper for two-and-a-halfy years. He AYERS
that he has frequently called tho attention
OF The President and Directors OF the corpo-
ration to The condition Of the dam, which
he deemed insecure, and on several oc-
c0siuns pointed out leaks in the cmbank-
menl lie wen! out as usual Saturday
morning about six o'clock. Everything
locked all right. TIE reservoir was full,
as II lad Teen ior seferl days. Wafer was
| HHWlnE o''t the waste way on the west side
| past his house, the gateway having been
closed a fortnight. There was no sign Of
! the impending catastrophe, and Cheney re-
turned to his house. The family, includ-
| ing his wife, several children ard his faith
| err, sat down to breakfast. They were just
ln'Sn'n2 lne meal "neh a great morse was
ne"r"' anu inc o'u man. VINO was Standing
at one oi Tue eastern N'nuo"'' exclaimed
FOR ""u sah'' george Iook lhere
No'u' 'or'F 'oe' III ie"s'n Oh inc ool'o"l oil
Inc ua'l reservoir on the east side' Just be-
yohu Tue g'''' was sh'o'lhg down stream
o"eheY seems 10 nave 'ea'lz'd the sllua-
'lo'' anu 'he emergency al once WIN
| single eye 10 the discharge oil ms duty nd
| Almost, as one would ihler from nearing
MN 'el' 'he Story "thou' s'oPp'nSlo CON
''der inc danger lnVolVeo' he rushed down
TO Hle gate and let on The water full head,