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hurled against TIE brick buildings. Their

hurled against the brick buildings Thei
bodies have not been recovered
The man and woman on the hill though
of friend. Mrs. Carrie Foltz. who hac
a confectionery store little above the
level Of the valley. Deziel ran to save
her and met another young man, Charli,
Barrows. helping her up the slope. Mrs
Folta had been taking an afternoon nap
She grabbed up n wrapper and to-day tha
garment ia her wardrobe
| There were countless cases Of clos,
escapes. The wave that hit Main street
destroyed line OF business places such
as any town of 1900 has for its people
On one side was n shoe shop. a dentist =
establishment. a billiard room. a tailor
shop. the Goodyear Hotel. barber
shop, jewelry store. a hardware store
a grocery store and the bank. Oppo-
site was the Commercial Hotel. a
restaurant. another grocery. a drug
store. two haberdasheries. meat market
an undertaking establishment. and the
inevitable moving picture show. labelled
T"Dreamland." They don't have matinees
at the film place. so no one was caught
there.
To-day the broken walls Of the estern
end and the shattered sides Of the bank,
where the post Office was situated. were
all that stood alone in the waste The
rest were covered with the great heaps
OF boards and plaster.
| BILL ROBINSON IN THE RAPIDS.
| In one Of the furnished rooms above
the candy store Bill Robinson, night
watchman of the pulp mills was getting
his day s rest. He heard the roar and went
to his window that faced away from the
dam. As he leaned out the impact struck
the building at the back Bill was thrown
straight over the building opposite
and landed in the full depth Of the water
beyond. He was fshed out half drowned
but the only injuries he had were broken
jaw and shoulder dislocated.
| The force Of the food struck Main At rect
at exactly 2:2s A clock that was picked
up outside Larkin's shoe store had
stopped at that minute Just before this
Tom Lawler who kept bar at the Com
mercial House. came to the door TO see
| where the fire was. He gathered an idea
Of the real disaster from tho noise that
came from above Lawlers house was
only few doors away and ho threw OF
his apron and made for it. He grabbed
up his II months old baby, called TO his
wife and she ran out with another child
3 years old They wers caught just
where the current swerved from the
course Of Freeman Run and we're borne
to the opposite hillside. Lawler held his
| bal atV Enl<n
through his wife's. She held the other
childs hand
I The four we're found 200 yards down the
valley lying just out OF reach Of the water
The wife was dead and so was the little
girl: but Lawler had kept hold of the baby
The tiny little person was still breathing
when the rescuers came and many mothers
have kept il alive The fathers injuries
were the most severe Of any Of those who
are now in the Northern Pennsylvania
Hospital,
SAVED By A FEATHER BED.
A girl named Madge Nelson, whose
father and mother were drowned. saved
herself because she went back into the
house to get coat. While she was on the
upper floor the house about her broke into
three pieces She threw her arms about a
feather bed and was found perfectly con-
scious half mile below
Joe Mckinney's three-year-old boy wae
carried out of the house by his mothe,
and they were caught up together The
mother held her boy above the water
and she was dead when they found her
But the youngster looked up at the men
who grasped his arm and said:
rs that thing coming again? My
mamma couldn't hold me any longer
| She couldn't walk any further"
| The Rev. Father p. W. O'Brien ran
into the street when he saw the tossinR Q
pulp wood bearing down upon him. He
gained the hill. but he saw his house
swirled $50 feet down stream and brushed
against the hill. 1t was not very sub
stantial when it came to rest. but the
| priest took in many who were without
places of refuge. He said mass this
morning in a house on hill where $50
| men and women came in the dawn to
gather about him, The church OF st.
Augustine. OF which Father O'Brien was
rector. was completely demolished So
were the Methodist and Presbyterian
churches and meeting place Of the Holy
Rollers. The Swedish Lutheran Church,
in the lower part of the town. was the
only house OF worship left standing.
THE FIRES START UP.
Immediately after the bulk OF the
water passed Pickering fires began to
appear long the waste of the Buffalo
and Susauehanna shops. Torches that
were used in work about the engine rooms
were lighted and fires were burning in
some of the furnaces. When the water
broke off the natural gas pipes the spread
of the flames was immediate. Over the
wood upon the surface of the water the
fire danced and in a second the kindling
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