The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-05

bodies were received aud cared for
including Miss Mary Connolly. Mis-;
Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs. Fuchs, Johr
Fuchs, Mr.. Hubert and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Sleeper, and three children
Jacob Winckle, Archibald Arnold
Conrad GeinzIer and wife, jacob
Gloker and two children, Henry
Ponckauf and one child, Henry Leo
pold, wife and four children, Jacob
Snappe, and two bodies, infants not
identified.
1t is stated that an elegantly at
tired lady, accompanied by a little
girl, took refuge from the rain in an
archway between two houses, on
O,Hara street. The crash came,
tumbling the houses into ruins, and
the water bore the bodies of the two
away, to be recovered and classed
among the unclaimed and unknown
dead.
1t would require a large volume to
contain the many incidents related of
the food, and it is not within the
range of possibilities to gather
in a single article in a daily journal.
1t is not probable that the full histo-
nv of the great disaster will eve be
written.
At Woods Run Ninth ward, AL
legheny, the work of destruction was
also effected to the most sorrowful ex-
tent. Here, as elsewhere, houses
were wrecked and lives were sacri-
feed. The principal part of the harm
done was between the railroad eros
sing and the point crossed by the
Beaver road.
About halt a mile above the rail-
road are the houses of two mill hands
named Patrick Farley, and Frisby
Denning. Farley seeing the danger
of the families, succeeded in fasten-
ing one end of a rope to his
house, and the other end TO a tree on
the bill side, and by means of this be
rescued all the members Of both fami-
lies.
A short distance below Farley'S
house the stream takes a sudden
bend and near this left its original
bed and was DETECTED against some
small frame houses standing in the
contracted valley. First was the
home of John German. 1t was lifted
bodily, and crashed aginst the next
house below it, that of Flames Forden,
a laborer in Levitt, Oliver & Phillips
mills. These two buildings were
dashed from their foundations and
were eareening down the tide for
nearly n thousand feet, bringing up
with a fearful shock against Wilson
&Trimbles store, which was forced
nine feet from its site, but which
still held together and arrested the
progress Of the two houses.
Forden and his wife and three
children, and German and his two
children were in the houses and all
persisted.
Mrs. German saved herself by
hold of an exposed gas pipe
on the bill side, and by the aid of it
clambering to a place of safety.
The bodies Of James Forden and
wife were found first in G.. B.
Ecdert's yard, some distance away.
One of Forden's children was found
south of the railroad track, and yes
morning the bodies of two of
Forden's little ones were discovered,
the infant boy, about ten months of
age, at the bridge, and the
other little boy aged about
ten years, far out on wilkins
avenue. Those still missing are
John German and a little child, and
Forden's two children, a boy and Il
girl.
James Flanagan, brother OF Mrs.
when he saw the flood COM
rushed into save his sister, but
4 blow upon the head sent him head
into the torrent, and he foated
some 500feet, finally climbing out by
means of a tree.
Luke Dillon and family, consisting
Of three girls and two boys, barely
escaped with their lives.