Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-06-06

Graphic story sf the Ds>aster.
Prrrssrs1a. Pa. June is J. Herron.
solicitor for the Tines left yohnstowu as
two O'Clock yesterday asternooa and has
just arrived in this city. Mr.. Herroa tells
n graphic story ss the Disaster that fell
on the mountain city. All OF Thursday
afternoon snd night rain poured dOwn In
deluze. The little mountain streams
svelled into torrents. pouring their
wsters into the COnemaugh river. that
passes directly through rhe center of thu
city. soon the banks os the river over
lowed and thu streets through the city
began TO disappear beneath the rapidly
Increasing current. Houses and bridges
from above the etry we're swept away By
the Hood aud added largely to the dam
age further down The water rose 80
rap-fly that many people could not e.
cape from their BONES. AMI ran ~ N.
upper stories. from which they we're res
cued by men riding horses and mules.
The scenes Of rescue we're most thrill
ing Joseph Ross, . tssmster, bad
tn charge pair Of mules He
mounted QUE Of them 60 aid soms people.
\ Ths mule tell into an excavas.oa carry-
ing Ross With il and he was drowned.
When left Il looked ss II one thousand
people were homeless. They we're gath
cred on the mountain sides looking sadly
NJ their homes hgrtsd in tho water. The
Cambria Iron works were flooded. throw
ing two thousand neu out Cs employment,
besides entaiiins = vast amo1ns Of dam
ase 10 the mill The sweeping away %
four or ave large briggs added
/ greatly ~ the horror " the scene.
Twelve carload. ot iron were run out
onto the Cambria bridge In Al attempt %
save that structure. The waters gath
cred strength. xnd swept bridges. cars
and iron away a. u th-y we're stravs.
/ But Qua bridge remains. aad u Ls badly
damaged Lumber vas swept down With
tho hood In vast quantities. ss IL esti-
mated that one million or more feet
passed through the town yesterday mora
ing The railroad dspoes were shroug-i
with victims Of the foosl Who wsr- res
/ cu-d ia skis. Piano boxes aad rass.
we're used for this purpose. Ali tho
trains on the PcansTlvznia sal Baltimore
6 Ohio railroads Are discoutinueI. the
trarks being submerged for miles.
AT two o'clock the water v.s still rts-
I ings and the peopl. we're panic stricken.
I There Is aO doubt bas that lse lo~s OF life
will be heavy. Three eiaxsns OF Pists-
I bzrgh are knowa to hare been drasnei
[ They occupied . house Just bslo~ the
dam. n short dig.ancs above yohnstown-
They we're Thomas Fsllon. J,mss Tight
and = telegraph operator, name unknown-
Terrible Lss.esA
PrrrsBrRsa. Pa. June Wv. " Hayes.
supervisor Ot the station OF the PennsyI-
vania railroad covered by tn. q ood. tels-
grsphed at ten o'clock last night to So
T -.
destruction Is terrible. The dump a.
Johustovu is gone between the bridge
and tower. West Os Johnstowu at soms
points the tracks are entirely carried
away. and road bed SOus. The river har
three-quarters OF mile above the bridge
Is nlled with buildings aud driNwosd.
forty feet high, and i. on fire burning
furiously, aud is entircly beyond control.
I can not estimate the amount OF damage.
walked over last night from John ,towu
10 Sang Hollow tsour milssl. Johnstown
is literally wiped out
| Superintendent Pitcairn. who Is At New
Florence, sixty-ive miles east OF Pitts-
burgh, teleSraphs that over Ons hundred
men. women aud children passed sang
Hollow eiinginy To debris. Seven we're
rescued at Sang Hollow. tvo at Csne-
maugs Furnacs aud two at New TIor-
e1ce. Only tortF-sevsn Of the one hgn-
dred and over passed New florence. Tho
loss OF life and property will be terrible.
Like . Tidal Wsves
BRApDocx, Pa, June i--relsgraph
wires are down or unvorkable twelve
miles from JohnstOwn- News rsceiv-d
here by the Pennsylvania railroad on /.
| etals corroborates tho statements that
Johnstown Is nearly wiped out. The sig
nal tower people at Sand PILLOW state
that up 10 eight o'clock they bad counted
il9 persons floating past on vrsckag-,
some alive and some dead They res
cued q boy, name unknown. who said hs
and his father, mother. brother and two
sisters were swept away with thsr house.
He was washed OF from the building.
but the others were in it when it was oar .
ried over the new stone railroad bridge at
JOhnstown- The house went to pieces
then, and he thiaks all sers drowned.
The alarm OF danger seems to have
| reached Johnstown about D. m The
railroad otieisss at once began carrying
people out OF town, some on reguar
trains, others on hasuiyimprovissd spe-
cials. superintendeat Pitcairn hap
pened to be in the vicinity and took
charge Of the work The water finally
came down like . tidal vave. sweeping
everything before IT.
On the West Br.neh OF me sasqas-
hanna
W ILLIAMsPoRr. Pa, May 3I.-The big
gest hood since the memorable one OF
1855 is now in progress on fhs vest
branch Of the Susquehanna river. Much
damage is reported from points north Of
here, but Communication OF all kinds IL
interfered with Laud-slidss are report
ed all along the Pennsyivania road north
OF here.
At Clearfeld the water Is rising az tbs
rate OF one and half feet per hour. A
half-dos-n bridges have been swept
away and the streets OF the town are
overfowed- The people are going about
In boats The booms at Caledonia aud
Curwensville have broken, and IL IL
feared that the Lock Haven boom will
break before morning and that the WILL
iarasport boom can not stand the strain
II this occurs
Logs valued sS.oo00oo depend on the
williamsport boom holding. The river
viii be twenty feet above lev-water
mark before morning. The rain Is fall
ing in torrents.
Driven to the Upper stortesL
BRADFORD. Pa. May 5L-Ths heavy
rains OF last night and this morning have
swollen Lima creek least aud west
branchesl. into rivers. Several streets
are under water. People living on Hilton
street were compelled TO move their ef-
fects to the upper stories The tracks OF
the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh rail-
way are flooded with a foot and a half Of