Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-29
rRE PITTSBURG DELUGE.
Ihr1l1fng Incidents of the DfsaSfp


TRE PIrTSBURG DELUGE.
Thrilling Incidents Of the Disaster.
A correspondent Of the New York Tribune,
writing from Pittsburg on Monday, gives an
account OF the appalling storm there on Sun
Gay, In which 2l9 lives were lost and -, 900, 900
worth Of property destroyed. From his account
IL appears that about \ O'Clock on SUNDAY
evening two great black clouds came up from
opposite points OF the compass, one to the south
vest and one 10 the northeast. They rose slow
~ until they met IN mid air, directly over the
city, when there was terrible electrical dis
play, the lightning nashes being unusually fire.
quent and vivid, and the thu nder crashes in
cessant For few minutes previous a few
heavy drops OF rain had been pattering down,
out when the two giants met in their death en-
brace IL seemed as though q river had been I'M
chained in the heavens, and was falling bodily
to the earth Velow. For half an hour it did not
rain. There was no distinguishable drops a.
the term lie generally understood. IL was the
descent OF q torrent, like a river leaping over a
precipice. In three minutes after this terrible
water-spout had burst more than 100 b um an
beings were swept away. Down Madison ave-
nue, Allegheny, came the food in its most awful
OestructySness, sweeping away more than 81
dwelling houses, and causing the death OF 20
persons in that immediate vicinity. At Woods
lun, on the Ohio, 10 were swallowed up in the
twlnknng or an eye, and at Saw-miu run, on
the south bank Of the Monongahela, 25 more
were suddenly engulfed. The three rivers have
been full of the dead all day, while the water
ways leading thereto have yielded up q harvest
that sickens cororers and undertakers.
AFFECTING INCIDENTS.
Alderman Bolster OF the eth ward Of Allegheny,
who was submerged with his family-hls vie
being on a sick bed-with a sUperhuman effort
gathered up his wife and five children and
started TO run out of his house that was being
swept away. His little boy Charley, who was
perched on his shoulders, hearing the cry of A
little babe who dwelt in the next house, and o.
which be was greatly attached, leaped from his
fathers shoulder, and this morning was found
with his little limbs clasping his baby loves
" 1 va nd
tears OF the ten thousaSd women who looked a:
this pretty incident was one OF the sweetss;
tributes to hero;sm that was ever witnessed.
Tonight they lay side by side at Sampson &
Noigt's undertakers, the prettiest corpses OF all
The many who have lost their lives, and over
whose little collins thousands OF the first ladies
the blessed rain.
Then there is another incident at Woods run
that almost battles description and staggers be
lief Mr.. John Brady, his wife and four chill
dren, lived in little shanty at the foot of a
bluh that was sheer 100 feet high. over this
biuf ran small gas pipe to supply house
above. When the Hood came and struck their
house, Mrs. Brady seized the babe at her breast,
leaped cut of the back window, and seizipg the
gas pipe, sailor-hke, dragged herself ard her
infant 10 the hill above. Her husband and the
other three children were drowned, and carried
down to the confluence of Woods run and the
Ohio river. On O'Hara street, Rudolph Artz,
his wife and six children, resided. While Mr..
Artz was trying 70 pacify his family about the
storm, the Hood broke, and he was forced to see
his FAMILY dug out of the debris to-day and laid,
seven Of them, in q long row in the undertaker's
establishment. One man, who was picking up
bits OF broken hardware, said be had lost moth
ing except his house and wife and two children,
and was trying TO pick up something to begin
housekeeping with. He was a stalwart man.
but so demented with his losses that hundreds
Of ladies who heard him fell into hysterical
weeping.
on Center street a party Who appeared with
skift discovered a man hanging on the roof of
mouse. The water on the street at that time
was some fifteen feet high. They took the skif
and told him TO drop, the distance being slight,
as The skin was nearly on a level with the sec
ond- story windows. The man jumped and was
saved. be then informed the men in the ski Il
that his family. consisting eff his wife and thr &c
or four children, were in the house. He got on
The roof, jumped from that to another roof.
When he reached Center street the house was
swept away, and the family persisted, together
with the children OF another family. making IN
all 10 souls.
with clothes-line 10 his house, fearing some
OF them would rush away ia their alarm and be
lost The house and the entire family were
saved.
WHOLE FAMILY PERISH.
From the Pittsbarg Dispatch OF Yesterday we
take the following: On MeLsughIin's run an
ebtne IamlIy named McCleat, consisting Of
man, wife and five children, were swept away
by the furious torrent and lost. An old cOlored
man living Oh Painters run was swept away I'm
dwelling Of MT. Thorn, on whisky run. was
swept away, and he and his wife borne down
the stream. Mr.. Thorn held tenaciously to his
better half, and was putting forth heroic efforts
{" save her, when bis head struck violently
against some DRIFT wood which had fastened
upon the bank Of the stream almost knocking
him insensible and compelling him 20 relin-
uish his grasp and turning him around in an
eddy, while IL carried Mrs. L. out into the cur
rent. The unfortunate woman could not be
reached by persons who were standing on the
bank, and she was carried rapidly to her death.
Mr.. Thorn was taken out and saved. Two
boys, SON Of Joseph Hooper and a SON OF Geo
Albeitz, who was stopping with Mr.. Hoover,
were lost at Glass house, on q branch Of the
CHARTERS. Mr.. Hoover, who before rescuinq
his wife and small child from the house, which
the waters were rapidly filling and threaten
ing TO take away, asked the two boys TO stay in
the house until ne returned, but they became
frightened and went out into the stream TO be
eeen no more. When Mr.. Hoover returned he
instantly became aware Of what had happened
during his absence, but the inevitable decree
had gone forth and his frantic efforts were
powerless TO effect its recall"
RECOVERY OF MORE BODIES.
kilograms from Pfttsburg last night say: -
The bodies OF Mre. Brithner and Ida McVay
was recovered about noen, and q body has been
floating at the ferry landing which is supposed
ter's valley further reports have been received
On Laughlins run the body of Mrs. Cheat was
found yesterday MOI ming with the scalp torn
on and one arm gone. Half q mile above
Bridgevflle, VIM. Stratton. whose wife and Ave
children were drowned, was found in the ton
not how. Another death, that Of Isaac Reamer
a coal miner. on Pointers run, is reported.
ANoTHRR TRAPEzIsr Fatally IxruRxp.
Hanion, the acrobat spd traPezist, while per-,
forming at the Arcade, In jersey Civ LAT
night fall twenty i've feat and sfrucE nj. -.