The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-04-22

iihg the oead IN the nelghborlng VIII
lage of Szoregh. at first the num-
Der of boats was quite insufficient
TO save the Inhabitants, many of
whom the danger bell tolled out of
their sleep. When boats enough
came the soldiers had hard work to
Row through all the lumber tossing
about on the waters, and to induce
the frightened people to allow
themselves to be saved, as the
gEeater part of them refused to get
of their house tops into tho boats
without their poor property, which
puld not be saved under such Cir
Nmstances. h"Better die all of us
than live without our beds and our
coffee pots T. was what they all
said. A very happy circumstance
was that the embankment Of the
Southern Railway remained intact,
SO that help ,; could continually be
got at Temesvar and the rescued
gould be sent away in that dlrec-
ton. In the first hours this could
not be thought of. The desperate
people clung to the dikes, climbed
up trees. filled the few stone houses
to overAowing.
~ MANfwERE FROZEN TO DkATH
in tho first nights, the wind blowing
mercilessly tleir scanty, wet cloth
ing. Twenty were found frozen to
| death and twenty-three went mad
from terror and have been sent to
the madhouso in Pesth. The brave
men who risked ther lives thousand
times to bring help we're witnesses
of the most heartrending scenes.
Sometimes as they approached a
house>top or a tree to which drown
inglpecple cl,lng, these GOULD hold
on no longer, and dropping into the
water were drowned before the boats
could reach them. An old man in
the centre of a mound of piled up
rubbish was heard calling desperate-
ly for help, but it was impossible to
approach him, and he persisted. A
white haired grandmother was seen
diving for something. She found it
at last her drowned grandcbild,
which she held up towards Heaven,
laug hing hoarsely, mad woman's
laugh An expedition from Pesth,
headed by a member of Parliament,
Arriyed three days afer { 9
catastrophe, and he tells us tlut
even then he was a witness of the
most dreadful scenes. A small
raft ter was by them, when none man
espied small baby on it, tied to q
divaD. The expedition was quick
i,enapsh' in br.nail 6 the poor Ii tl3 one
lhtoysafety, but Its nave not been pl>
rents found and are most likely
dfoWned Then woman signaled to
them from a roof. When they ap-
preached they thought she had faint
cd. She seemed lifeless, so that they
had 70 bear her into the boat. She was
not bore ten minutes when feeble
wall betrayed the awful fact that she
had given birth to child-a boyit.
turned out to be. All those people
we're taken to the station yard
high in water, and some were sent
away to neighboring towns and
villages.
THOUSANDS FOUND SHELTER
in railway cars which came from all
parts, but the greater part remained
in the open mir, where The cold and
wet has made many of them i'll,
especially, Of course, the women and
children. At first, among the other
evils that tormented the poor,
stricken inhabitants of Szergeain,
was hunger, for of course with so
many lives to save, victuals could
not be thought of. But very soon
whole trains full of bread, cheese,
meat and wine came from Temesvar
and Pesth, and brought relief. The
railway companies send everything
gratis, and now large quantities Of
clothes are daily being carried to
the Southern station. Subscriptions
were opened the very next day and
have had fine RESULTS. Thus the
Pesther -Lloyd, a German Hunga-
rian paper, received $4,000 Aorins
and the Ne,te Erie .Presse, of Wen
ma, $4,000 forins, although it is the
organ least friendly to Hungary.
Berlin has sent Is, 900 marks and all
the institutions in the country,
societies, unions and the like, have
sent large sums. The Emperor, in
his own and the Empresb' name,
gave $4,000 forins and went to
Szegedin in person to- assure the
inhabitants that every thing within
human power would be done for
than Tha E,ororor,. ,,,o n ~ ,,x,oJ ~