The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-13
a HuNDREDFoLD oUTDoNE.
Reade's Description of an English vii
lage Swept Away By Flood.
From the NetO York World.

From the NetO York World.
Charles Reade, in one of the chapters of
his novel, Put Yourself in His Place.
gives graphic description of the bursting
of dam situated above an English village
The dismay and terror of the villagers as
they saw the immense sheet of water com
ing down toward them found parallel in
little Pennsylvania village Friday after
noon. The great novelist writes:
Farmer Emden was standing at tie door
or his house, and in reply to Ramsome, told
him he had just come down from the ressr-
voir He had seen the crack and believed
it to be mere frost. He apprehended
no danger, and had sent his peo-
pie to bed. By and by
Ransome looked up and observed a thin
sheet of water beginning to stream over the
center OF the embankment and trickle
down; the quantity was nothing, but it
alarmed him. He thought it was better to
give false warning than withhold true
one; he ran to his horse, jumped on him
and galloped on, shouting as he went: SITS
comingl It's comingm He galloped through
Hatfield, shouting: Save yourselvesl
Save yoursslvesl" and the people poured
out and ran for high ground, shrieking
wildly; looking back, he saw the hills dotted
with what he took for sheep at first. but it
was the folk in their night clothes. He
galloped on to Damfask, still shouting as
he went. At the edge of the hamlet he
found cottage with no light in it; he dis
mounted and Numbered at the door: SIS
cape for your hves For your livesp
At the top of the hill he turned a mo-
ment and looked up the valley; soon he saw
lofty white wall running down on the
Hatfield mill. 1t struck the mill and left
nothing visible but the roof, surrounded by
white foam. Another moment and he dis
| tinctly saw the mill swim a yard or two.
| then disappear and leave no trace; and on
came the white wall, Kissing and thunder
| ing Ransome uttered cry of horror, and
| galloped madly forward to save what lives
he might. Whenever he passed house he
shrieked his warning, but he never drew
rein.
ALTOONA bridge the devastation was hor-
| r1ble. The flood had bombarded a row of
| fifty houses and demolished them so utterly
that only one arch of one cellar remained /:
the very foundations were torn up. and
huge holes of incredible breath and depth
bored by the furious eddies. And now the
| day began to dawn.
There was nothing to be done and Ran
some went back to Hillsborough. Day
break realized his worst fears; between
| Poma bridge and the first suburb of Hills
borough the place was like a battlefield,
not that many had been drowned on the
| spot but that drowned all up the valley by
the flood at its highest, they had been
brought down and deposited in the thick
| layer of mud left by the abating waters.
Some were cruelty gashed and mangled by
| the hard objects with which they had come
in contact. Others wore a peaceful ex-
preston and had color in their cheeks.
One drew tears from both these valiant
men. 1t was lovely little girl, with her
hands before her face to keep out the sight
| of death. Here and there hand or a
| CHASTITY face appearing above the mud
| showed how may must be hidden alto
| gether, and Ransome hurried home to get
| more assistance to disinter the dead