Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-19
MASSACHUSETTS,.

Boston, Is. a committee of the legisla-
ture to investigate and report upon the Mill
River disaster, with view to extend the nee
essary aid, started on their mission at ) p. NJ.
to. day.
Mayor Cobb has called an informal meeting
Of citizens at City Hall, tomorrow morning,
to decide measures for relief.
Gov. Talbot, who returned from the scene
of the dlsaater to-day, says that the immedi-
| ate wants of the most destitute are being
supplied by Springfield and other towns in
the vicinity, but that more permanent and
systematic relief is demanded. Besides the
three or four hundred families rendered
homeless, large numbers CT operatives are
thrown out of employment, with the loss of
everything, except the scant clothing on their
persons.
Springfield, IS.
\ fuller investigation only confirms the
substantial accuracy of the estimate of the
number lost by the reservoir disaster, fur
| nished TO the associated press last night. The
| Springfield Republican, latest revised lists
| make the total number of lost l4j, distribut-
ed as follows, between the villages Skin
| nersville, 4 Williamsburg, 60; Haydens-
vile, so; Leeds, 81. The detailed lists for
the four villages are as follows:
At Williamsburg, Miss Livingston S. Bart
| lett, Viola B. Collyer, T. j. Hitchcock, VIM
| II. Adams, widow VIM. Snow, Willie Tilton,
Mrs. VIM. Sarter, Il. j. Lauchone, Mrs. f.
NJ. Chandler and daughter May, jeremiah
Ward, widow Electa Knight, Mrs. Patrick
Scully and two children, widow May Brennan
| Alex Roberts, wife and two children, Mary A
Niece, Mrs. George Z. Lamb f. c. Hub
bard, Mrs. Merrick Wood and child of Chico
pee, Michael Burke ard three children of j.
Burke. Fred X. Bird, James Stevens, Mrs.
W. ID. Adams and son, Eliza Dominique,
widow Downing, Henry Birmingham, wife
and three children, Mrs. E. G. kingley, Mrs.
E, ID. kingley and two children, DR.. L. NJ
johnson, wife and three children, widow
johnson, Frank Murray and wife. John At
kinson, Spencer Bartlett and wife, George
Ashley, Mrs. George L. Lamb, Frank Train
and wife.G0 in all.
At Skinnersville: Mrs. Jerome Hillman,
Mrs. Jacob Hill, Eli Bryant, Robbie Hayden.
| AT Haydenville: Mrs. Morris and her
| daughter, johanna Williams, Francis Brodeur
John Kaplinger, Hogan, Edward Macler, Mrs
| Mosier, Mrs. Wilson and three children, Mrs
| Posey and three children, Mrs. Messie and .
| children, Mrs. Bonsit, and child, Stephen
| Keller and wife and daughter, 9 children of
| Edwin Thaycr, 3 children of Samuel Miller
| Michael Burke, and Archibald Lanconbie- so
| in all.
Leeds-Mrs. Patrick, Charles Patrick, Ju-
liza Patrick, Jerry Patrick, Mrs. Dunlea,
| aged so; Mrs Robert Fitzgerald, aged 81,
Anna Fitzgerald, aged :, Lottie, Bertha and
| Tommy Fitzgerald, Jerry Dundan, aged 8, 2
children of John Clancy, Andrew Hennessey.
his mother, wife and daughter Ella, Mrs.
Louise Brownett and children, Mrs. James
| Fennessey and children. Eliza Carpenter,
| Mary Rowse, Patrick s. O'Neil, Alodander
| Lancy, Ralph Isham, aged 2G, Ira Dunning,
, Lox.
Harmon and children, Mrs. Hurley, 60,
Mrs. O'Shaughn Mrs. Sarah J. Ryan
| and child, Mrs. Jane Cozau and c. Cozan, %.
| Grace Cozan, Is, Conory, II, Eyelne Sher-
| wood, Mary Woodward, Mrs Mary Bagley,
Capt. I. f. Waugh, 3G--tota, ii.
| Carefully revised estimates fix the total
| loss at 81 900 900, of which the manufactur-
ers and mill owners sustain $3.50, 900, The
| towns of Williamsburg and northampton lose
Sl50,000, for the repair of bridges and the
| highways and the operatives and individuals,
not less than $3.50, 900 or 100000 The re-
| lief committee has been organized and is ac
| lively at work in all the neighboring vii
| lagos.
| A general relief committee was organized at
| town meeting at northampton this evening
which W i'll take charge of and distribute all
outside contributions.
| The selectmen of Williamsburg will petit
| ton the legislature for exemption from State
and county taxes this year and for leave to
change the valuation of the town from May
| to June /.
OF the whole number lost, the bodies of / 10
! have been recovered, II of the missing being
| from IIaydensvile and is in Leeds. Possibly
unknown strangers and travellers may have
persisted in the flood aud the search for bodies
will be resumed tomorrow with more vigor
| and system than before The total number,
however, will scarcely exceed $50.
| INDIANA.