Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25

SYNOPSIS OF PkEN lOOD
CHAPTERS /. ANr IL-Mrs. slaepottom; whose
Captain Pennycomequick, who mad taken the
name by special license are SUING togetner con-
mons and eXtravagant tastes she nnQs II dlthcult
10 live on the $500 annually wnlch Is ner income.
sihle fortune that may be theirs on the death of
wealthy relative JeEemlSn feinnyeomeq nliek le
haye lust entertained at dinner but who is dis
gusted with their oyerdone professions OF interest
ellsworth one Of two sisters. the elder one having
LETT his roof TO marry French manufacturer.
Mr. Pennvcomequick gradually becomes drawn
toward the fstherless Salome, and something Of a
fcnderer feeling springs within his breast. 4
reference to Salome and himself reveals to him
his heart, aud, as he meets her in his own home
after the Sidebottom banquet he dare not meet
CHAPTERS III. AND IV.-Jeremiah Pennycome-
quick, unable to declare his love for his niece.
leaves his house at midnight for composing
draught Of fresh night air" As he walks by the
by man on horseback, who told him to '.itet
back, &C Holroyd Reservoir had burst" The
old man enters the hut of the locksman on the
embankment, the only shelter from certain death,
which seems at hand.
Jeremiah encounters the full force and volume of
the food, which bears down all obstacles, pianos.
pigs, a women's corpse with dead child in her
arms everything impelled against the tottering
walls Of the hut. He is Joined by another terrlned
hslfmaniscal waV that he mad lost his bullock
which he might have sold the day before. Jere-
overcoat. As the hut slowly but surely crumbles
away, Jeremiah reaches a tree top TO whlch ne
clings.. His fellow sufferer declines to leave tne
hut, and as the tree passes Jeremiah sees the hut
dissolve like lump of sugar in boiling water ana
disappear.
CHAPTER VII-TARING POSSESSION.
The valley of the Keld for many miles above
and below Mergatroyd presented a piteous
spectacle when day dawned. The water had
abated but was drained away. The fields were
still submerged. Factories stood as stranded
hulls amid shallow lagoons, and were mac
cessible, their fires extinguished their mechan-
ism arrested their stores spoiled. The houses
in the folds" were deserted, or were being
cleared of their inhabitants.+ From the
windows of some of these houses men and wo-
men were leaning and shouting for help. They
had been caught by the water, which
invaded the lower story, locally called
the "ha'ase," when asleep in the bed
rooms overhead, and now, hungry,
and cold and imprisoned, they clamored for
release. Boats were scarce. Such as had been
possessed by manufacturers and others had
been kept blythe rIver, and these had been broken
from their moorings and carried away. Rats
were extemporized out of doors and planks;
and as the water was shallow and still in the
folds they served better then keels. One old
woman had got into peggy. tub and
launched herself IN It. TO get STRANDED II the
midst of wide expanse of water, and from
her vessel she screamed to be helped, and dared
not venture to move lest slts should upset her
tub and be shot out
Not many lives, apparently, had been lost in
the parish of Mergatroyd. Mr.. Pennycome-
Quick was missing and the man at the locks
with his wife had not been seen, and their
cottage was still inaccessible But great mis-
chief had been wrought by the water. Not
only had the stores in the mills been damaged,
and the machinery injured by water and grit
getting into it, and boilers exploded by the
shock. but also because the swirl of the tor
rent had disturbed the sub-soil OF gravel and
undermined the walls. Flssures formed with
explosions like the reports of guns; one chin
ney that had leaned before was now SO inclined
and overbalanced that its fall was inevitable
and was hourly expected.
sFor the enlightenment of the uninitiated it will
be as well to describe Fold. About some mills
are wards and the inclosing walls of these yards
form the backs OF cottages facing inward on the
mill which are occupied By operatives working in
the factory.