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

ander Roberts, whose wire anu wv" on"
dren we're torn from his embrace by the
raging torrent. A little son OF Mr..
Roberts was carried down the stream
nearly to Skinnersville, where he was
rescued. The house of f. Q. Hubbard
was swept away, together with its occu-
pants. Mrs. Merrick Wood and daugh-
ter, both of whose bodies were recovered.
A WHOLE FAMILY LOST.
Among the most heart-rending casual
ties were the destruction of the entire
family of Henry Birmingham, consist
ing of his wife and three daughters, one
of whom, an accomplished young lady,
was a teacher in one of the Northamp-
ton schools. She went home on Friday
evening to spend Sunday with her par
ents, and now her body lies in the Town
Hall wrapped in her winding sheet The
body of her father and sisters have been
recovered, and L. M. johnson, his wife,
three children and his mother, embracing
an entire family, were engulfed and des
troyed, and Sunday afternoon the bodies
of the doctor and his wife were found in
an eddy where the water set back be-
tween Williamsburg and Skinnersville.
He had received terrible blow from
the end of broken timber, which struck
his head over the left eye.
AT HAYDENvILLE.
At Haydenville the buildings were
swept like chat. Among them was the
large brick mill of Hayden, Gere q Co.,
in which were $50 workmen, and strange
to say but one of them was drowned. He
forgot his coat and stepped back to get
it and was seen with it on his arm run
ming away. Another moment and he
held up his hands and sank in the foam
of the food that he could not escape
from. His name was Francis Broadeur
Gen. Luce, who resides in new house
forty rods down stream, was hardly able
to keep ten feet from the flood, running
toward his house, which came down over
Hayden, Gere &Co.'s dam. A man who
was standing on the west bank says he
distinctly heard, proceeding from an up
per window, the screams of woman OF
child most piercing. Another man who
was up near the basin corroborates this
statement, and says the cries could be
heard upon the hill tops above the roar
of the torrent.
POWER OF THE FLOOD.
The force of the food is shown in the
fact that the large boilers, firmly set,
measuring 81 feet in diameter and 10
feet in length, were carried great distan-
ces One boiler was seen dancing like a
cork, and was found after the flood passed
landed upon the lawn in front of the
old Hayden mansion.
soRRowFUL SIGHT.
Some of the sights along the street
we're very sad. One poor fellow, nearly
insane through grief, and led by q
blanched- cheeked sister, could hardly be
persuaded from not entering a residence
which had been left, demanding the righ
to go in and see his mother and 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 SCI
the bodies, and see if their relatives
could not be recognized among the mani
mate forms being dressed for burial. Al
people looked about them and heard re-
cited the narrowing tales which would
seem like exaggerated stories miles from
the scene, many evinced callousness hard
ly to be looked for, and rot fit to be re
peated.
The number of lost in Haydenville il
over 80 Mrs. Jerome Hillman was los
while fleeing with child and servan
girl in Skinnersville. She was only tel
feet from her child when the food tool
her away. She was heard saying, Yot
must save yourself, my child"
AT LEEDS.
Between Haydenville and Leeds is
noticeable knoll in the river. 1t is per
haps three hundred feet in diameter an,
rises to quite hight. As the foo
moved and broke up the barns cattle go
into the flow, and many were out of th
brunt of the battle in calmer water whe
this knoll was reached. Such scramt
ling for it as occurred cannot be realize
by those who did not see it, and whe
the waters were less troubled quite
drove of cattle were forded over to th
bank. The kilograms relating to tt
devastation at Leeds have not been e,
aggerated. Only three houses on tt
east side of the river remain in their O
iginal positions. The water first struc
the Monotuck silk dam, solid stru
ture, and plowed through it as thong
it had been rope of sand.
The silk mill boarding house was t
tally wrecked ; all the inmates escape