Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-30

Tho body was recovered to-day. The
glue works were destroyed next.
August Ryckof's dwelling was car \
ried away with the occupants, and two
children persisted.
Attic intersection of Madison Az
enue and East streets, building was
struck by the flood and carried away,
and all the inmates, six in number,
were drowned. The torrent swept
down to low lands 200 feet in width,
and everything yielded to it like sand,
the houses being literally turned up
side down. The house Of AldermaA
Bolston was destroyed and one child
and the next family escaped.
Upon the same street, a family named
Fuchs. consisting Of Jacob Fuchs,
wife and one child, and Joseph Fuchs,
q brother Of. Mrs. Fuchs; in another
house almost adjoining, the rcsidence
OF Jacob Mason, wife and two chill
dren, all the family except one child
was lost. The bodies of three were
found this morning. On Chestnut
street and Spring Garden Avenue the
houses withstood the flood. About
seventy houses were destroyed In all
this district, and it is thought that
many bodies remain in the debris.
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Eight bedies have been recovered herc.
Some twenty.five persons arc misaina
supposed 70 be drowned. s., - go
iIDS1cHr.--Few Additional nartic.
ulars have bean obtained. The moe
carefully nrenared figures make nm
total loss 81 life 2l9. The prODertv
Destroyer and damaged cannot d
even az iIhafeS apnroximatelv. Il.
Al meafin0, II citizens Of Ala.
Rhenv CIV to.niuht the ieadinr mr.
pledged $1,000 for the relief or thc
suffefers. Va meeting has beeu called
for the same IN Pittsburr to.morrow.
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NEW York. July 27-The NIoss.ex.
animation Appeared in the Nonday
morning i,sDers. II ia very len9thy.
making Ten columns Of closely. mini.
ed maftAr. More minute particulara
are given of the yarious lpofnta shown
in the statcment. t'.'. h, IN \ ',s,''.
The Brookiyn, Argus publiahea :
card from Mr. Triton IN which he saw
that the Beecher inyestioatinr COM
mittee have niyen the world 4 lot al
irrelevant festimony Of hie and said
no word about the most importe nd
part. VII: that the criminalitv whIcl
my sworn etatement charrede upon
Rev. Henry ward Beocher snd his re-.
iigionS victim. was Conferred ID me
not only 81 herself but by M. Beech.
er, and that furthermore it vas CON.
tossed ~ her and him to Mr. Moul.
ton, as friend or counsellor or both.
and still. further that M. Noulton'e
Office g mediator for four yeers be.
tween Mr.. Beecher and MYSELF WI
based on one sole fact this pre.existina
criminality between Nj. Beechcr md
Mrs. Tilton. The statement I made
to the COMMITTEES, with nv utmost
pls,nness 81 speech. / furthormore
stated 70 the committee that III.
Beecher's apology 10 me. instead 81
growing ont Of any circumstances con-
cernipg Mrs. woodruff. wa commu-
nicated TO me ~ Mr. Beecher nesrly
six months befttrc ever met him Or
saw Mrs. Woodhull. The omission Of
these facts from the committees report
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