The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-13
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
TERRIBLE FLOODS.
Great Loss ofMfe and prouert,


Loudor, Ont, IA special SAYS: The
rain Of the night before lasted over eight
hours, almost continuously, With tre-
mend0us violence. Alb. ut 8 am. the
river rose rapidly, il undating West
London; nearly every one in the village.
which numbers about 2 coo, had to take
refuge on he hou-e tops. MANY were
drowned, houses were washed over az II
built Of pssteboaId and carried off down
the river. The wafer was never before
known to resch such height. q full list
Of the fatalities cannot be vet given
Only one bridge in the vicinity oi Lon.
don is fl f'r travel. Three @ four are
totally csEried sRsy and the others
damaged. Both the railway bridge, are
badly sprung and traffic is suspended on
the Crest Western Railway. Men are
working hard to save the remaining
bridges In the n9iRh5orbood rivule 3
were swollen to torrents ana indicated
terrible damage. ,ihe fall on the
streets was so heavy 81 to undermine
them, and houses we're carried down the
river with people screaming on the roofs
and inside. One house lodged agsinst
some trees a mile be'oS the CITY. 4 boat
followed. attracted by the scresms: they
we're drawn away By persons on the
roof tops, whom they rescued first. When
they again went to the house there was
no sound. the family is supposed 10 be
drowned. The facts are not yet known.
The list of the drowned will reach per-
hsps thirty. The London West is still
under water. 1t is impossible to get
detailed account. The Advertiser gives
the following description of the view
froom the roof Of the courthouse: From
$50 to 10 a.rn. the view ia that OF A lake
mile across in each direction, in which
stands doZens OF trees and houses
Branches of trees hang in yellow water
and roofs of houses and upper parts of
their walls show above it. The surface
of the lake is streWed with boards, tim
Der and debris of all kinds. The whole
Of Kensington makes part of this lake.
No Sign of life is visible in the doomed
village except men in row boats ps, sing
from house to house. Houses which are
LEFT standing are half submerged in
wster. One stands in the middle Of the
street where il Was fosted and stranded
in the early morning. The water in the
south branch, which is nearly I'D to the
roadway OF Westminster bridge, PUSHES
impe!uously into the lake cA.ryi.g down
large quantities of brushWo0I, boards
and timber. Yellow Lake ia OverbunS BY
sleepy mist, above which the clouds hang
hsavy ard dark, threatening to renew
their work Of devastation. AS one
watches the gloomy spectacle, ghostly
objects floating under the Westminster
bridge, with crows npOn IL. Thew srark
and scream a boAtman oil the lake
with one skiH goes to where the river
rushes into the lake but cannot atem the
current. The boat waits and meets o
floating object; one Of the men in the
coat seizss it and fer down the stream
hauls ashore the corpse Of man. The
situation is thus: elk bodies were taken
cut OF the river tonight, these berg,
Mrs. Hopkins, Hre. Coostsnce. 10 rs.
Hutchinson and three OF the TFGey fam
lily. The litt Will yet ba swel,pd. TIE
destituti0n Is vide spread; 81 a nesting
tonight, seven hundred dollars were
subscribed for relief.
There is nothirg new TO report in re-
gard TO the food. The water has rub
aided, and gangs OF men are bu clear
ing out housed, and endeavorinR to make
such IS are not carried away habtable.
Active relief measures are on foot, and
all OF tha distressed are temporarily pro-
vided for, either in private houses or Of
the expense of the city. No more bodies
have been recovered, but many who
we're missing have not yet turned up.
The properly destroyed by the food il
valued al bali million dollars.