Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

was found, with pair of new shoes IN
her hand. In the toes of the shoes were
found four $40 bills, which the mother
had probably tried to save
A number of persons in Williamsburg
and Haydenville have been made in
sane by the terrible excitement and loss
Of friends. Eighteen bodies were col
leeted from Florence meadows, and
placed in carpenters shop, where the
scene was hearth, nding. On the floor,
in irregular order, lay eighteen corpses
of all ages, from the child two years old
to the woman of seventy. Near the door,
with a fearful cash in the forehead, was
Ralph Isham, the bookkeeper of the
of the Critchlow button mill. Over in
the corner was the widow Fitzgerald,
while all around were blackened corpses
with their clothes half torn off, and in
some instances terribly mangled.
GOOD BY, BUT SAVED.
Mr.. G. Brady, clerk in Fernessy's
store in Leeds, was caught up and car
ried down the stream in the presence of
his agonizing friends. He was thrown
with fearful velocity over Hooks dam,
and babe good by to his friends just be
fore reaching the cataract. He was af-
forwards found alive and insane in the
Florence meadows, but he has since re-
covered.
AFAMILY SAVED.
Mr.. Langly gave his family up for
lost, as he saw them 60 into the house at
the time of the alarm, but he afterwards
found them ali safe in the second story
of the l., twenty rods down stream. Had
they remaiued in the front part all would
have been lost.
PAINTING IN THE STREET.
When the alarm came to the alright
ed citizens, some were paralyzed with
fear and unable ia consequence to effect
their escape. Many women tainted in
the streets and we're borne away by the
relentless current. So sudden was the
inundation that many lost their presence
of mind and rushed wildly from points
of safety into very death itself. Others
who remained TO save loved ones were
themselves lost. Eight cases of insanity
have been reported from among those
who we're either rescued from the torrent
or who lost some near relatives in the
flood. They were committed to the
asylum at Northampton, and some Of
them have so far recovered composure as
to be almost entirely out of danger.
In the Nonotuck mill in Leeds the
scene was of the most appalling nature.
Women and children rushed out of doors
only to be swallowed up in the fearful
food. Buttwo minutes notice was given
to the hands in the silk mill, but nearly
all escaped, though eight or ten met
death in the street. Only the chimney
remains in the whole building. The
wooden mill was seen to lift up in the
center and then crash together like an
eggshell, and in moment the brick wall
crumbled as if built of dust. The boil
er was carried nearly ten rods. Myron
Smith, one of the employees, rushed into
a water-closet in the second story of the
brick mill the closet was close beside
the chimney, and did not go with the
mill. Smith was afterwards saved. Mr.
Isham and girl we're standing near the
door, when q young man rushed up, and
giving the girl his hand, called on hel
to run. Isham said, "Come into the
mill and shut the door" The girl ran
as asked and Isham went back and was
seen no more alive. He had been only
three months in town, coming thithel
from Brooklyn, N. Y, and was thirty
three years old.
INCIDENTS AT LEEDS.
In Mr.. Quigley's house sat Mrs. Quig
ley, two daughters, and school teacher
named Miss Marble, and, having jus
finished breakfast, they we're sitting talk
ing when they heard the noise, and re
treated to the upper story. While stand
ing there the main part of the hous,
was wrenched away, leaving them will
but a thin partition against the swellin,
tide. Their courage did not fail them
however, and as they saw neighbo
named Humphreys floating by on por
ton of the roof of his house, they raised
the window and pulled him in. The,
we're all saved, as we're, also, Humphrey
wife and mother, who each grasped