The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-22
MISCELLANY.
THE PITTsBURG DELUGE.

THE PITTSBURG DELUGE.
Incidents of the Flood i'm the Narrow
Valleys OF Western Pennsylvania
Escapes. +sS
We CLEAN from the Pittsburg and ALLIE
ghany City papers the following incidents
OF the disastrous flood of Sunday night,
July 26:
AS might be inferred, a flood like this.
bringing with it so much devastation and
terrible loss of life, is replete with Incl
dents and events many of them thrilling
and heart rending in the extreme. Every
where on the scene, which was viewed by
thousands of people, men, women, and
children, diEgent inquiry was made for
lost friends and acquaintances, and ankle
ty was depicted on all features. Rumors
of all sorts were current as to the num-
Der of dead bodies found, persons lost,
and remains recovered. - Inquiry, too.
revealed the fact that many who We're
thought to be lost were found, and others,
who, it was thought, had escaped the
mighty deluge, were engulfed in the rapid
roll of waters. Parents were looking all
day for their children, which may never
be found, and children were ,assanxieusly
searching forparents which were no doubt
drowned. Faces of the dead recovered
were scanned eagerly by anxieus thou
sands, and the sundertakers' offices were
all day besieged by the anxious multi
tudes. Is se4asf7 53 ssa
THE SCENE AT THE scHooL-HoUsE
in the Thirty fifth ward was, perhaps, the
saddest of all. -Four victims of the catas
trophe lay here in their last long sleep.
Near the door, covered with a sheet, as
We're all the rest, lay the body of strong
ly built man, who evidently struggled
hard before he yielded TO the grim de-
stroyer. His name was Thomas BrittOn.
At the other end ssof the room, with his
face sadly disfiglred by the timbers and
stones which had struck him. lay his son,
a youth about II or IA years of age, named
Willie Britton. By his (Willie'sl side was
the body ola little girl with long, golden
hair, looking as calmly beautiful as if she
had just fallen asleep. Her name was
er and threeRbFothers are stillamissing,
and are doubtless also drowned. - Nearer.
the door lay the, body of Mrs. Thrap. Her
husband and four children are still missing.
Never as long as fife lasts shall we forget
the little sehool-house of the sFhfrty-fifth
ward. srfaa.} Hss@ ssst aa as+.ss
SPRING GARDEN RUN.
On Spring Garden Run the storm was
not nearly so disastrous as across the hill
on Butchers Run. Yet here it was bad
enough in every way. For more than a
mile evidences of the fierce flood are yisi-.
BILE in the shape of wrecked buildings,
bursted sewers, etc. But two lives are
known to have been lost here-those of
Michael Schoelter and his infant child. aged
5months. Mr. Schoelter's house is situated
on the side of the hill, on the right of the
hill going out, and was perfectly secure
from the effects of the water. But he,
hearing the cry of the panic-stricken
neiohbors, became similarly affected, and
snatching his child from its cradle, rushed
into the street, onlysto be carried by the
rushing tide intoa broken sewer at short
distance below, there to meet an aqueous
death. His little son Henry, aged 8 years,
followed after his father. but was more
fortunate.e The current carried him
against 5neighbor's house, and with pres
ence of mind remarkable in one so young,
he caught the door-knob and held on tight
ly, all the while crying Justify for help.
Mr.. Augustus Taner, owner of the house,
opened the door, and young Sehoelfer was
rescued and taken to the upper story.
MANY EXCITING EPISODES
are told by the inhabitants of this section.
son and his family at No. 80 Spring Gar
den avenue, was pulled out b yropes, and
thus hoisted to anupper story OF a taller
residence adjoining. A boat belonging to
and manned by members of the Howard
Boat Club was instrumental in saving
number of lives of those unable to escape
before the floodeameiII its greatest foree.
About a mile out on the run man
named William Peats tied bis family-a
wife and seven children with q clothes
line in a room, fearing that some Of them
in their alarm, would rush frantically away
and be lost. The house was saved, and
with it the entire family.
A frightful loss of life was brought about
in single house~right to the rear of Cen
ter street, near the junction of Spring Car
den avenue. Nobody seemed TO know the
persons. There Were perhaps two or three
families living in the house. At least this
is the op Mon of some who live. in the
neighborhood. The first parties who ap-
peared on Center street with skif dis
covered a man hanging OF to the roof OF
house, ON the right hand side toward and
near Spring Garden avenue. At that time
tie water on the street was some fifteen
feet high. They took the slzif under the
place where the man was hanging and told
him to drop, the height being but small.
as the sliff was nearly on level with the
second story windows. The man jumped