The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-17

within the last two years. Above this was the new
dam built last year. The dam on the Conway
branch is about six or seven years old.
THE MILLS ON THE STREAM.
reckoning from Williamsburg down 10 Northamp-
ton, are as follows:-
William Thayer's tool factory, IS men. and two
button factories, together employing 80 hands,
men and girls; the corset wooen mill OF Henry
James. ESQ.,, employing about SO hands; the large
brass works OF Hayden, Gere 4 Co., employing about
80 hands, and Is perhaps the largest and best APP
pointed factory OF the kind in the United states.
IL was formerly the property OF the late Lieuten-
ant Governor ayden. The cotton mill OF the
Hayden Manufacturing Company, 5000 spindles,
employing about rs or so hands; the Diamond To-
bacco Works, employing 10 or 90 hands; the two ex
tensive silk mills OF the Nonotuck SILK Company,
employing 800 hands in all the large brick mill
OF the Northampton Brush Company, employing
about 90 rs hands; the cotton mill OF the Green
vile Manufacturing Company, 5000 splndles, en-
ploying rs or so hands; the Northampton formerly
Bay state) Cutlery Company, employing probably
200 hands; the Clement Hawkes. Manu-
featuring Company agricultural implements),
employing SO hands; the International
Screw Nail Company, employing IS hands,
and the large basket factory of the Williams Manu-
featuring Company, employing about 100 hands;
also the skinner SILK Mil. employing ABOUT nity or
sixty hands, Besides the foregoing, there are
some hall dozen grist and saw Mills some Of
~ ooitv vui<hi
range or the devastation.
THE MANUFACTURING CAPITAL INVESTED
along Mill River and affected by this disaster,
placing It at low estimate, must be $5,OOO,ooo,
and the immediate population affected thereby
about 5000.
THE POPULATION
is almost wholly manufacturing one, which has
| grown up around the dams and increased in pro-
portion to the demands ofndustry in that locality
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 has recently been sold by
the estate.
| Sunday had been set apart az Haydenville for
memorial services in memory OF the late Lieute-
nant Governor when all the members OF the family
were expected to be present
FALSE REPORTS.
Reports were in circulation in Boston to-day that
Lieutenant Governor Talbot and wife were In Hay
denville at the time the disaster occurred, but
they are untrue. Mr.. Talbot left here on Thursday
for Northampton on private business, accompanied
hu vifo rho hos CIR potu nd Mr. Toll
is supposed to be in Northampton.
Henry James, the owner OF the four set woollen
mills was to have sailed from New York to-day
with his family for Europe, but his departure has
been intercepted by telegraph.
OTHER DISASTERS.
FOUR O'CLOCK P. M.-Additlonal dispatches
from the scene Of the food to-day say AT Skin
nersville the store Of Hayden, More l.
Co. and the Haydenville Savings Bank
buiding, with the safe. was swept away.
The safe contained $4,000 in money. Emgrane's
store Earne's store and several houses, Loomis'
Hotel, Hayden & Co.'s tobacco factory and two
iron bridges were also swept away. At the village
OF Leeds
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE
occurred. At nrst no water was visible; but
wall Of driftwood, thirty feet high and several
hundred feet in width was seen sweeping down
the valley at the rate OF thirty miles an hour.
| portion OF the Montague SILK factory was
swept away, with the brick boarding house Of the
company.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN SWEPT AWAY.
| Captain Vaughan the depot master, and large
number OF women and children were swept away
| by the torrent OF water.
Only the chimney left standing OF the silk mill.
The Crutchinlow button mill and stores are all
loss is estimated at $1.0O00oo. A. P. Crutchinlow
and son-in-law, George Warner lose 100000.
Nonatuck SILK Company, $25. 600: W. F. Quigley,
$4,000.
| The town of Northampton loses $4,000 in
bridges and roads.
The loss at Williamsburg and Haydensville can.
not at present be estimated.
II. L. James, woollen mill Is still standing, also
the Hayden manufacturing cotton mill.
Only two houses are left standing at SINNERS
WIG. rutccH DIluBeS, tWclVc laCCOTleS ana sew
enty-five buildings have gone, and 400 people are
left homeless.
The exact number Of lives lost cannot be ascer-
tanned at this writing
One Hundred and Twenty Lives Lost.
BOSTON, Mass, May 10, 1874
A later despatch says that 100 lives have been
lost and upwards OF 100000 in property and
treasure swept away by the flood.
THE CASUALTIES.