New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-25

age was wrought The massive culvcrt on Red
woods Save. was destroyed Substantial retaining
wall which had been only recently competed, AT q
cost Of about f.. 800. at the foot OF the mn on
which the AlmshOuse stands. was swept away ~ an
instant and soon the terraces into which Tue hll-
side had been laid out crumoed ana sliu aMaG pHe
after another until the advancing Hood was W!tHll
forty feet Of the foundations OF the building. nI'"
fear was felt lest this fine struci urc, Wulch Is Oh
stone and brick and cost 100000. would collap'
over the heads Of the - paupcTs and iuualco VINO
are inmates there. The place Is ueed Doth its I"
city pOOrh0use and Is county luhallc a9i lu' H.
Fortunately the watc- rercled almost as sublthly
a u had risen. end the calamity was aVerteL -
small bridge connecting the AlmShouse Win INC
City Hospital Was ruined and communcalloh cul
Oft The Almshonse and hospital bindings can NV NV
be approached from the city only Dy eHOu''V"'
path, deep in mud, through the teiis'
DEATH OF MARLIN RIOS ITER-
The mountain torrent swept down toward the
Passalc River. and after having destroyed every
bridge on tie line Of tie brook except that at Ham
burg-aye.-which being high cscaped-and the
Totowa-aye. culyert, recently rebuilt, completed
its destroying work by sweeping away the old
wooden Dudgc 40 VIVA, y known as Molly AM :;
TINS name is corruption Of the name or an old
Dutch resident OF the nelglborhood where
the brook enters the Passaic. y man named Nelly
was standing on Tins bridge Whyn IL Ntnl GOV II
and was swept into the rlYer, put ne managed
TO reach the shore. Near this point oil /
Martin hOssllcr met "a terrible deatn. W nen the
torrent came down be- wa, IN his wagon the road
COWS, which we're in adjoining field and winch
he feared would Ice drowned. lie was warned 10
flee 10 place of "a ETY., but did mo- heed the adj
wee, anu the flood struck his wagon. ana carried
man, horse and vehicle of the road and against TIE
fence between u and the uyrr. Here ne might
st have escaped, but he tried 10 save MS horse,
and while attempting 10 guide the rearing animal
10 a place of saietY the fence gave way and the
wagon was rOl e. over IntO the boiling torrent and
toward the river When ~ came up again the spec
tators saw Nh ROs,I.cr still clnglug 10 the vehicle.
itc was finally swept INTO The TVerand disappeared
/ be vehicle was seen gong over the cataract but
nothing has been seen of the unfortunate man 3
body. 81. kos>itcr was about seventy years old
ana ha4 lived fOT some time On small farm near
where ne Wct MS death. lie was Tor thlriy-lNc
year, gardener TO l.. B0udIuot Colt, of the family
O that name ideutIurd with tie early manutact. r
ing history of Paterson. lis son. Richard ROsstcr
Secretary OF the society for Establishing UseIul
Manufactures.
At ia-saic City on Saturday great damage was
done aiOu the VcT the lower hurs OF the mills be-
ing flooded. Al night Inomas *. atsOn, an eA-
CouucimIn OF Pa-,d4c and member OF % bl. aching
LTu, Aad an c2cIIug experience. Inc race"a y oi
tnc Dicacuery was - swollen that be tired a.
ID Ilc. urt OF prulcucc to open the nOOdgate oil the
dam, and Win rope tied around his waist hud
tuIcr I.cu at the otucr end. hr MADE Ills descent
over tge structure. Inc rush o waters carried hllh
away. aud IL was all that the tnrre mtu coud do lO
hJlu A.n l-dl.~t tIe current lie Was Auai5 IT'S
cucI. almost drowned aud BADLY bruised.