The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-22

The American rrrari 90 fatal tHHrdalians
fseniu. siit ih,. flooding 81 8J huu-rs 5u
Nee Orleans. un NIt H. ~t9. aud great pm
s.s'ipH s-d I,.-- nt st- ta j8a~ 4 lss51.
there ssts Is .tr,ss Htai tu ibs L-Hizb aui
Delaware RIVER Atl th- ta,ua au iae H..
hi.h between Naarh CaauA snI White Haven
r.tvs way. aai the water r4-hr-i aa. cassy-uR
before 3 bridge aui hui.i.aes 4 lfas. lno
( h,,-, u-r,, ius'. and paBY % the boobies scrs
newer recovered. The memorable M.ii River
DISASTER. uvsg Northampton, Mas, Mag H..
{ ls7E resulted iB gss destruction oi iour
sillarr. and lav .r.s 81 over 3'ti igrs Ihss
as the hrs, great disaster pj Us kiut SEE gbls
+ country Eafrka. N-T., sa,s swept hF = wAtrr.
spout ia JAY Of the same wear aud abosi
ghirty persons psrshea-
A fainrinui broke with terrible violence
( over pjt,>aurg aad Allegheny City about eight
+ O. clock Sunday evening. July -. les+. and.
So ar as loss o' liis pa- concerned. resulted tH
the greatest calamity tia, had VISITED lHe sity
up a. that tame There was np sIa4. bai
{ steady IaWupaaria- al imasrn-r solgues ot
z water. Psi'sburg itself escaped sIth great loss
{ az property only. hu,, in addition 10 immense
I property losses he Allegheny Civ 22D % her
inhabitants in the iuu living districts werr over
{ sh,lmsd aud drowned Us she torrents thai
poured down through the rayiaes aud creeks
I That scanned The Seyynlh Tsnth and ElesyHth
xarls at The eity, aud swept an entire settle
ment an the Wales I'd Hairhcrs Run down
I into tur Allegheny.
When the rain began falling haj l.Jlie az.
pr-heD-iou was culeris.Hrd. bias those who
Z lived near the head 81! fHr valley stated that
I suddenly q SEEMED a. IS Fhs heavens opened
and the EatrT came dttsu H, 70 discharged
/ froul immense pipes Fhe valley was al oaes
I filled with a raging tovreni, aud frame dwell.
( iuE- Siahl,-s. stores aHt slaughter houses we're
F swept hkr driiauui tnwH ie the uyey. Many
/ little children had already been pat 10 bed for
I the night aai grown people Nrre preparing
I for rcf.u-e, tsF The evening hal been stormy.
{ aud all ui them @err ne-rjaks1 Iu pltchy dark
ness Onlv hi,lt could be- done ga the way Of
I rescue. i,r ever, man had himself 10 look
( after. aud that night ONLY sixty bodies 81 the
/ dead we're recovered Bu' by evening Of the
I next day 2lG had been taken tr1m the banks
/ Ut ib, rivers where they acre stranded by the
I rrrssiug Ibod,. ard for nearly week after
/ wards corpse. Ssre found.
What VAS probably the most widespread
( and devastating humiliation that ever occurred
/ ia America visited the Mississippi Valley in
1 February. So. when than mighty river burst
/ all bounds and spread over the country 0n
I both sides from -. Louis 20 the Calf Of Mex
I co, making u some places an inland sea over
a Nuh3lth htii'0 VIM hNt 'AN ''NN ~ '''N
/ was trivial in comparison with that az Johns
/ town. although the destruction Of property
4 was very great
The Jahustown disaster occurred in the
! afternoon of Mas 81. 1859. About len miles
above Juhust0Wu dam across South Fork
/ Greek. it'lr above It's Junction with Cone
mnugh Creek, gave way, aud the wafer rushed
( down the narrow valley with the speed OF a
race horse. sweeping away most of the villages
! familiarity kaown as Juhustown City. having
/ "A total population o. 5000. Tn" wreckuge
/ was checked by "a stone bridge, and piled high.
1 Many houses containing imprisoned families
were hurled upon the mass, which caught tire
/ from an overturned stove, and hundreds of
/ men, woman and children, pinned in the
wreckagc. were burned Ca death The loss
/ Of life ia the valley reached total of >, 500.
/ Ninety nine entire families were DESTROYED