The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-05-21
THE FORCE OF THE WATER.

Large brick and stone mills csumbled like
90 many piles OF sand, and email wooden
dwellings were no more to the raging cur
rent than 30 many toy steamboats, would be
in the surging waters Of Niargra River. The
scene Vas most horrible and frightful, and
made even the strongest men 20 frantic with
borne away BY the relentless current So
sudden Vas the inundation that many lost
their presence Of mind and rushed wildly
from points of safety into very death itself.
Others. who remained 10 save loved and
dear onee, we're themselves ios.
When the Herald reporter left the scene
OF terrible disaster tonight, there were hun
dreds Of weeping men, women and children,
going frantically up and down in the wake
Of the food seeking for missing relatives and
friends. The water had greatly receded, and
BY tomorrow it will nearly disappear Alto
geiher.
THE SHORT DURATION OF THE FLOOD.
Ii fact, II WAS only about twenty minutes
from the iirst foundation before there was
perceplible and rapid fall, which has corr
tinued ever since,
Among the principal manufacturing e.
tabli.hments swept away in Williamsburg
are o. G. Spelimal's button factory, Adams
hi,chcf ck's grain mill, Large tannery. ard
II. L. James woolen mill, in which nesrly
half of the operatives we're lost. The bodies
re- osered are horribly mangled and MANY
Of them stripped of every particle Of cloth
ing. Nearly all were identified BY friends.
THE SCENE OF DISASTER
hiss been visited by hundreds of people this
afternoon. hut it il doubtful if any trains are
to run from Springfield TO accommodate
hundreds who we're hoping to come out here
from that city.
Springfield, Mass May 1.-THE latest
figures of the los Of life by the breaking Of
the Williamsburg reservoir, make total OF
IA, divided as follows between the three
places: Williamsburg. GO; Leeds, 40; Hay
denville, So. There figures only represent
penons whose los il positively known,
though the hodies Of all are not not yet re-
covered. BO1ies are constantly being found
and, in some cases, those OF persons who
were not supposed to be lost, 10 that it
seems perfectly safe to say that the loss Of
life will exceed $50, il, indeed, it does not
more nearly approach no.
THE TOTAL Loss
must far exceed 81. OOO, 600, and will prc.
baby come to 81, OO0,C eco. The following
IN general estimate Of loses bv places: In
| Williamsburgh-W. H. Avonies' Touring
mills. swept away. $40, 900; H. L. James
mill, damaged and left standing Without wa
ter-power, $50. 900; houses. barns. etc. gone,
500
| At Skinnervil.s-Willism SINNERS silk
factory and Twelve tenement houser des-
trOyed, $3.50 900; other houses and barns
$4,000.
At Haydenville-Hayd den Gore & Co. =
brass works, savings bank. buildings ard
tenements swept away, $3.50. 900; Hayden
| Tobacco Company, mill carlisd of, $1,000;
Hayden Foundry and Machine Company's
| works, damaged, S., COO; other houses and
stores, $50, 900; Gas Works. So, 900.
At Leeds-Nonotuck Silk Company's dam
broken and several buildings and houses car
ried away $4,000; George P. Warner
button factory destroyed aAd three tenemen,s,
SlOO. 600; other houses. barns, etc. $40, 900.
At NOrthampton-Emery Wheel Com
pany, damaged, $1,000.
| AT FLORENCE.
| The Florence Manufacturing Company
brush factory, damage to stock. So 600; Nor
otuck Silk Company's silk mill, partially
torn away, ard stock damaged, 5000.
| The damage TO the Town Of Williams
burg BY the loss Of bridges, great desiruc
tion Of road, and complete ruin Of its best
meadow-lsnds. is at present incalualabie, but
il ia such a. to seriously cripple the town.
Three iron bridges were carried away. In
the village of Williamsburg, one wooden and
two iron bridges; in tie village Of Leeds, one
bridge; and in the village Of Florence, one
iron and two wooden bridges were swept
away.