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Thfre are siu'hs unheaved, tbere are tears
nn wept,
Tlieie are Ititos unstrung, there ar harps nu-8vvcit;
There are griefs uuknown, there are thoughts
j untold,
1 There are hearts b;at warm, when they seem
j but fold;
There are loves uulost when they seem so
dead;
Thurc are wounds uuKeen, that have often
j bled,
For the soul feels most, when in silenee deep,
; It lives uuueard as the winds iu their bleep.
' There are sorrows very dark that o'ercloud
our way
j And that shade the heart in our life's glad
1 day;
There are joys ttntelt, there are bopos unfed,
There are pledges hushed, tbere are vows
Uiinaid,
There are tl owers dead among the blooming
leaves,
There are treasures lost among tho golden
sheaves;
There are memories sweet, and we love thorn
I , "ell,
j Uut the eyegrowsdim in their current swell.
j There are frieiid.-hips gone, like the dew of
' morn,
j There are smiles now turned to the coldest
worn;
j There are dreams we loved, iu the days gone
YS hen the suu was warm, and so bright our
ky,
That are past like spray oh the ocean's
breast,
When the storms has ceased, aud her waters
rest,
And the heart gro.vs sad, that its loves hare
fled.
That its hopes are gone, and its garlands
dead.
There are scenes we knew that are faded
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deavored to awaken the children -who worn
imprisoned in the upper story of the d 'veil
ing. Tho roar of the torrent drowned
their voices and they were unable to make
themselves heard. Ho and his brother
the time, and the run was booming on at
an unusual height.
One of the most remarkable incidents of
the sweep of the -water was changed, the j w as in the upper part of the bouse when
floods having forced a channel through to ' the danger came upon it, and all the rest
the river. Then the wrecks of bouses, of the familv lehw. snddenlv
a. run s not:.
the flood tvas the taking out of two chil- i board piles, and household goods began to did the flood como that almost in a moment
dren alive from the debris on Earl street.
then picked up clumps of earth and threw j One of them was a boy aged about ten
them at the window, but just then tho j years. He was found at the bottom of a
bouse was swept away and disappeared iu j pilo of rubbish near Vista street. lie was
tho flood,' and the three children were ; hardly recognized as a human being. A
crushed to death in its crumbling ruins. : lady took possession of him, aud after hav
Their mangled bodies were found about ins him washed and dressed took him to a
130 yards below the scene of the heroic ef
foits for their rescue.
ANOTIIKH THKII.LIXO INCIDENT
was the miraculous escape of the watch-
physician. It is said that ho bad an arm
broken in two places. He was badly
bruised otherwise and much exhausted,
but it is believed he w ill recover. The other
man of the glue works. He thought the j child was a little girl. She was found in
, Hood was a small aflatr, and started up
btairs to get beyond tho reach of it just as
there was about a foot of water in the
lower story. He had scarcely reached the
second story when the stairs gave way
.' and he was compelled to jump down to a
coal bouse which stood iu the vicinity of
j the boilers. Out of this he crawled through
an aperture while the water was up to bis
chin. Fortunately be secured a plank,
and with that he made for the shore, w hich
be reached in safety.
! The sudden rise of the water in Butch
er's Hun is well illustrated by some inci-
' the attic of a house that had been washed
from its foundations and was partly w reck
ed. She was much exhausted, but not
tiurt otherwise, and it is believed that she
will also survive. t?ho was kindly cared
or by a charitable lady.
A RATING MANIAC
A short distance up Sawmill run, on the
left bank, was a small frame house occu
pied by a family named Ferguson. At the
time of tho storm there was no one in the
house but the mother, who was lying sick,
aud ber daughter, a young lady. The
tremendous current swept the house from
dents related by a German family w ho re- its foundation. Tho neighbors could dis
sido in a stone dwelling opposite Haveler's j tinctly bear their cries for assistance, but
glue works. The husband told the wife - tbe angry torrent would hot permit even
to go to the cellar to obtain some kindlings J the most venturesome to attempt their
for the cooking stove, as he desired to go j rescue. Tho mother was drowned, and the
to work early Monday morning. The wife ! daughter was found tho following raorn-
l sie,-7 porfe t hi tone I here are gathered wreath aud a shaded placed the wood iu the stove, but by the : lug clinging to a small tree in the vicinity,
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time she bad completed her work tho ; a raving maniac, having become complete
water had reached the lhmr. She inform- j 'J distracted at the heartrending cries of
ed her husband of the fact, and suggested ; u?r Pr mother for help,
that thoy had better vacate the house as i At Sodom, live miles above Castle Shan
the flood threatened to destroy it. Tho ' non there resided a family of five persons
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While wa linger here from our home above.
Vet we smile to think; that our griefs will
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And our hearts rejofee in an endles peace.
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THKII.MNO INCIDtNTS OF THE PITTSBURG
PLLIT.K MIItACL'LOL'S KSCATK-S AND
H Kit A l;K A ULK ADVE.MT' K KS.
The Pittsburg Chronicle, in au editorial
aiticle published ou the third day after the
overwhelming calamity, speaks of the fact
that no list of injured has appeared, which
it considers one of the most remarkable
circumstances of the great disaster. The
lists, as published, read almost invariably
"Dead and Missing." In
THE TERKIBLK RCSIIING TORRENT
which swept down tho numerous runs
tLcre was no middle grouud, and for those
who came in its course there was only ono
ch jiuee, "sink or swim." Uuliko a rail
road accident, the flood leaves no list of
maimed or wounded, and al'ng its raging
pathway the only issue is life and death.
Mr. A. W. Cole, otic of the members of
the firm of C. llaveler & Co., whoso glue
works were entirely wrecked, says that
when the flood of waters began to descend
no one had any idea that it would reach
the ereat proportions which it assumed.
Mr. Cole, who stood during the storm out- ,
tide of his dwelling, just in the rear of tho
bill at the upper end of the gluo works, j
says that the bill bad tho appearance of
immense sheets of water, as outlined on tho
opposite hill when lighted up by contiuu- 1
ous flaabos of lightning. When the great
flood of water rushed down tho run he
likened the sound produced to the roaiing
of Niagara Falls. Mr. Cole describes the
incidents attending the destruction of tho
dwelling occupied by August lienkauf and
bed into water knee deep, and with tho
help of his wife got the children out of an
upper story window on the high ground in
the rear. After they had accomplished
this, the husband returned to tho bed-room
to get some clothing out of a wardrobe,
but iu the mean time tho water reached
such a height as to upset it, and he found
it impossible to get tho article ha wanted,
being compelled hastily to vacate the apart
ment. A FAMILY OF SIX DROWNED.
The Ertning G'AroiiVfcbastbe following:
From Ben. Mangold, a German, living a
short distance from the Scbanapperts,
whose bouse proved the tomb of a family
of six, wo learned the particulars of this
sad episode iu the history of the Butcher's
Hun tragedy. Scbanapperts" s bouse stood
immediately below the oil refinery tf Hald
sbip & Co., and was struck by tho flood
with force enough to carry it completely
from its foundation 011 Madison avenue
and hurl it down the torrent. Mangold,
hearing shriek upon shriek rend the air,
lxked out from an upter wi ndow. The
doomed house careened along within a
stone's throw. At the upper windows
stood poor Scbanapperts and his wife, each
holding aloft a child over the raging water
was carried away, and the whole family
perished. Tuesday evening tho bodies of
the father and son were recovered, but no
traces had then been found of the remaining
members of the family. A mau and wife
and five children, residing near tho above
mentioned family, were also carried away
by the torrent, and the father, with the
smallest child in his arms, floated over four
miles. Just when there was hope of safe
ty and rescue for both, a log struck the in
fant on tho head, killing it almost instant
ly. Tho remains of the little one were
then released, and the father, relieved of
bis burden, bucceeded in saving his own
life.
STORY OF TATTON'S ROW.
Up Little Saw Mill Hun are tho coal
mines of Bell Hartley. A coal railroad
leads to the mines, and on the track a large
number of cais were standing at the time
of the storm. A little below the track was
situated what is called Patton's Row. It
consisted of four houses in one block, oc
cupied by four families. Those families
were Thomas Hunter, bis wife, two daugh
ters and one son ; James Britton, bis wife
and son; Isaiah Thorp, his wife, three sons
and a daughter ; Patrick McVey, bis wife
and two dau-rhters eighteen souls in all
and shrieking, "God Almighty help us!" I The swelling water of tbe s-trcmu soon
swept tho coat cars Irom the track, and
they came thundering down, one after
another, aud struck the doomed bouses of
Fatton Bow with a concussion like a hun
dred sledge hammers. At tbe same time
the water commenced to rise in the houses
at the rate of a foot every minute. The
swiftness of the current and tho darkness
of tho night cut oft' all hope of escape. Tho
fathers and mothers gathered their littlo
ones into tho upper stories, and hardly bad
the piercing cries for help rang over the
I roar of tho flood, when a mighty crash
! came, and the entire building was swept
j away w ith the force of the remorseless tor
! reut. Not one soul out of the eighteen
' survived to tell the tale of the horrors of
j that night. Even the foundations of the
I building have disappeared. It would be
"God save us !"' In a few seconds tho
bnildiitfr reuohc.l the Dend where the flood
turned south at the foot of Buena Vista
street. Here it struck against a slaughter
house and dissolved like a pilo of snow in
the boiling water. The shrieks were
silent and only the crash and grinding of
timbers were heard.
MIRACULOUS FSCATE.
The Branigan family Hve on O'llara
street, and occupy the last house saved on !
tho left going down the street. The fam- j
ily consists of Mr. aud Mrs. Branigan and
four children. A neighbor, Patrick Mc
Manus, was alone iu the house when the
w ater tore up tho back wall on the ground
floor and dashed toward the front of tho
room on O'JIara street. Had the couple
not speedily opened this door aud broken
the drowning of littlo Emma, aged threo J 0llt tho glass the whole family would have hard to conceive of a more complete oblit-
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; A WOMAN SATED AND HEt CHILDREN LOST.
I When tbe flood began Mr. Henkauf was
! visiting a brother on Spring Garden Hun.
' Mrs. lienkauf went to her front door to
ascertain the extent of tho flood. Upon
opening it the water rushed in in a great
volume, and was noon several feet deep.
A number of articles of furniture were
jammed up against the door leading to tho
second story, wbero tho childreu were.
been drowned like so many rats. Across
one window was tbe iron bar used for sc
1 curing the shutters. Swiftly tho water
lose uutil it stood five feet in the room,
eration of four homes than tho fate of the
floods brought upon those of Patton How.
It was perhaps a merciful Providence that
thus swept away the entire families with
with a current like a mill race setting the destruction of all their earthly posses-
through the apartment. Mr. and Mrs.
Branigan instinctively seized each a child
and clung to this bar with tbe grip of des- j
pair while tho cold, muddy torrent swept
over them. For four hours these two
hung to that providentially placed bar,
sions, leaving no members behind to mourn
over the desolation wrought by the inarch
of the flood.
kxamfi.es of heroism.
Among the many heroic acts reported
are the exertions of Frederick Schultz, w ho
sweep down, and victims clinging to them
or struggling in the surging waters could
be seen by flashes of lightning. On one
occasion the body of a woman was seen on
a pilo of lumber. Mr. Schultz made a
grasp as the pile swept by and secured the
body. Several similar incidents occurred;
but notwithstanding tho efforts of tho he
roic crew they were not able to rescue a
single one alive. When the waters bad
abated tho crew were couijiletely exhaust
ed, and for a time it was feared that two
of them would not recover.
But very little has been said as jet of
the heroism aud bravery displayed by old
and young in their attempts to rescue help
less women aud children in the darkness of
that awful night. In times of great dan
ger, when the lives of men, women, and
children are alike in peril, it is natural for
the strong to forget their own position and
think only of safety for the weak. Iu tho
' present instance it has proven literally so.
The first sacrifice was that of W. H.
Humbert, familiarly called Willie Hum
bert, a young man of great promise, aged
2o yeais. He resided in Ohio street, secure
and far from danger. Hearing of the flood
be hurried to tho scene, and tho first that
caught his eye was the form of policeman
Hess struggling in the water. The young
man plunged iu, and with the aid of a plank
rescued him, pulling biru in through a
window in the house of Peter Bolster. If
they bad stayed there they would have cs-
caped. The windows giving way and the
water flowing in so fast they had scarcely
time to reach tho upper stoiy when they
missed little August, Sp.iire Bolster's live- j
year-old son. Humbert ran below, and
catching a glimpse of tho boy's struggling
form without, he sprang through a w indow
and grasped the child. lie began to sink,
and Hess, seeing his companion's danger,
sprang out to save him ; but the water
swept him off his feet and both, w ith t lie
child, disappeared beneath the walls of a
floating building.
Perhaps among all those who were em
ployed in the noble work of saving lives
none were so successful as six young nieu
of the Duqtiesoc Boat Club, w hose names
are Geo. Shott, John Straub, Frank Bren
non, Fiauk Gremart, and Chas. Metz. la
their stanchly-built skiff, the Baby Anne,
they rowed around rescuing struggling vic
tims wherever they could sec them.
One heroic act, w hich stands prominent
among tho rest, was the rescuing of a Mrs.
lloerr and her two children. Tho lady re
sided in that ill-fated portion of the town
near Centre street, where so many lives
were lost. The children were twins, aged
five months. Early iu the evening one of
them had taken sick, and fearing it would
die, the husband started for a minister to
have it baptized. While he was gone the
flood came, a:td tho water rushing in the
two-story frame house containing his wife
and children, turned it over paitly ou its
side. Realizing her grat danger, the w ife
with her darlings ascended to tho attic.
While clinging under a cornice of the roof,
holding on fast to ber children, tho Baby
Annie came along. The young men tried
to reach her, but the height wastoo great.
A liniment more and llify would have
lcrished. Iu an instant Straub and Brcn
nan had mounted tho roof of an adjoining
building, and a moment afterward had the
mother and babes ia their arms. They
were carefully lowered into the skiff, and
in a lew moments safely Joilgcl in the
bouse of a neighbor. The joy of the poor
mother was doomed to be short-lived, for
one of her infants died the next. day.
An incident of more than usual interest
took place near the top of the hill, between
Butcher's and Spring Garden Huns. A
family by the name of Oilman, consisting
of husband, wife and six children, occupied
a small frame house in this vicinity. WLen
the fury of the storm burst upon them,
awaking them from their peaceful slum-
the house was swept from its foundation
and floated away. Those in the lower
part of the house n.ade their escape in
some manner, but had not a moment in
which to attempt the rescue of the old
man up stairs and Mr. Bauti floated away
with the building. He groped bis way to
the window and sat dow n there and as
the building floated along he shouted out
of the window, in the hope that some
friends might be w ithin hearing : "GihkI
bye ; I'm going down the liver aud shail
never return."
The family of Mr. Thomas Buo were
gathered in the upper room of his house,
which stood directly in the track of the
torrent. Their house stood lirm and they
were safe. They beard tho voice of Mr.
Baun approaching in the darkness, and
called to know whose it was. He respond
ed, and told where he was sitting. A few
moments afterwards the floating bouse
struck the corner of Mr. Kite's house, and
swung around so that tho window at
which the old man sat was against the
window at which were Mr. Buo and some
of bis familv. They seized tho blind man
My father bad a small and l e?.t:tifal d g
who rejoiced in the name rf Fide:. t!o
differed from other good dogs only i - Wi'g
better than otheis, and in rn:ir..:Vv..g
something that resembled rtlii- ii s"-..si-bi'iity,
or a peculiar attachment toit ! i us
places, people and service, f le a:re'..!t J
family worship with a punctuality and i g
ulai ity that theoiher iiiemlers of the h-.u-e-hold
might well have imitated, and ceit-in-ly
did not surpass. If a stiangf ; w.'re
present at:d much company visi:td .-ur
hoase tho dog's attention to Lim was
regulated by bis taking the lead or nrt iu
the religious r.Oiin if the h.n-'vbo.d.
If the visitor, at my father's rconet, con
ducted the woiship the dog at once ait .. li
ed himself to bis person, and whew he
departed tbe dog escorted him out of tb
village: sometimes go'lS hotrte wtMi urn
to k nigilxt ing town, and making b' .ii a
visit of a few days. If tlie viUor Old :irt
pei form any religions service in the ho -.p,
the dog took no notice of him while :hit,
and sutTVicd him to depart unattended r.:fl
ei idently uaregrettcd.
Such a dog was, of course, m hnbi -tal
attendant on the public services f the
church ou the Sabbath. It lequired et ra-
and immediately pulled him through tho j ordinary care to keep him at home
two windows. An instant later the Baun
house was crushed to atoms, and that iu
stant, had it not been for this apparent
maiacle, would have been fatal to Mr.
Bauu.
AFLOAT IN A CRADLE.
The crew of the steamer Storm repoited
Tuesday that a child bad been found in a
ht in a room, be dashed throit"h a wivd r
' and was at church before the family. Ho
was once shut up in an outhouse thnt I zd
no floor. He dug vat under the Fill of tho
door, and was at church before the 1 st
psalm was sung. In church be ocevt
the upper stop of the pulpit wilhiu which
his master ministered. He lay quiet tlar-
cradlo floating in the Ohio river, at the bead ivS lue service unless other dogs be' nr
misbehaved, in which ense ho left bis st at,
and after quietiug tho ditmb. nice rest:-, ed
it. Ho wa equally devottd to the wctLIy
prayer meeting which was he'd fi oui lw..so
to house, the app'iiniiu' nt 1 t it:g announc
ed on the Sabbath. He letnembjix-d il.o
evening and the lace, ai.d was always
present. As it was not rg'oor.ble to h:.ve
a dog at an evening meeting at a piiw.te
j bouse, he was confined at home. The next
! week lie went carl".", before the f.imilv 1 ad
of Montgomery Island, thirty-two miles
below the city. It was recovered by Mr.
Allen, the father of Joseph Allen, the well
known river pilot, near the bead of the
Island, and to the surprise of everybody
was alive and kicking. This is certainly
the most miraculous circumstance that has
occurred during the flood .and would scarce
ly be believed unless vouched for by the
crew of the steamer, who uniformly state
that they had the storv from Mr. Allen's
own lips, who, as well as themselves, were ! thought to shut him up, aud waited for
unaware of the circumstances which Con- ' tnc hour d the people. He k'-.ew tho
signed ibis waif to the care of one of the
farmers of the Ohio Vallev.
Thinos Worth Knowino. Sound trav
els at the rate of 1,14'- feet per second in
the air, 4,900 in the water, 11,0'H) iu cast
iron, 17,000 in steel, 1?,ohi ia gUs
from 4,".:i6 to 17,00'J in wood.
Mercury freezes at 5S degrees Fahren
heit and becomes a solid mass, malleable
under the hammer.
The greatest height at which visible
clouds ever exist does not exceed ten miles.
Air is about S1G times lighter than com
mon water.
The pressure of tho atmosphere upon
every square foot of the eat th amounts to
4.1G0 1bs. An ordinary size man, sup los
ing his surface to be 14 square feet, sustains
the enormous pressure of P.0.341"! lbs.
Heat rarities air to such an extent that
it can be made to occupy 5,.j'.K) times the
space it did be fore.
The violence of tho expansion of water
when freezing is sr.Cicent to cleave a globe
of copjer of such thickness to require a
force of SS.OO'J jou:uis lo produce a like
effect.
During tho conversion of ice into water
140 degrees of beat arc absorbed.
Water, when converted into steam, in
creases in bulk 1?,000 times.
One hundred pounds of dead sea water
contains 40 pounds ofjsalt.
The mean auuual depth of raiu that falls
at the equator is 90 inches.
Assuming the temperature of the interior
of the earth to increase uniformly at the
rate of 1 degree for every 43 feet, at tho
depth of CO miles the degree of beat would
be sufficient to fuse all known substances.
The explosive force of closely confined
gunpowder is six and one
names of the families where the mectii gs
were held, and where they lived, and could
have gone to any one of thcui on au enaad
t as casilv and corri-ctlv as a child. And
the only knowledge he bad of the p'.ox cf
meeting he got as the otLeis did. bv Le ir-
ing tho notice on
day. These habi's
of tl e d"g were not the fruit of education.
On the c mtrary, pa:u were t.:?en to c
vem him from indulging his religion- . .-
feit
lie did not manifest a fond:
for other meet-Tigs, or for any iudivid.n'.s
out of the family circlo except thoo wLom
; he recognized by their habits of praying,
I as the people in whom bo was especially
interested.
My father was wor.t t" i elate rrany other
anecdotes of this rcmaikable animal, and
the relation of them always caused his eyes
to fill with teais. Ho bad a strong im
pression that tLcro was something very
mysteiious about this propensity of toe
dog, and being himself a sternly ortbod x
divine, bo never ventured to express the
opinion that th? d'"g had moral conceptions.
But I alwavs thought ho bolieved so.
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A Disgraceful Goat. There is an old
goat owned on Lewis street which lias re
ceived a gteat deal eif tiaiuing from the
boj s. East fou i th of July they discovert d
that if they stuck a lire cracker in th? end
of a cane and held it at Wiiiiam, be woi-"d
lower his head aud go for them, and tl py
have practiced the trick so much, that the
j goat will tackle any human being who
jHjints a stick at him. Yesterday noon be
was loafing near tho corner of Third ai.d
Lewis bf reels, when a coiT-ulcut citizen
came up and stopped to talk to a friend.
the t-idewalk,
ed bis cane
closely confined j Xh(.y iiaH)ell0,i to spk .f the
half tons to the ! vhen tho corpulent citizen pointe
and were all rescued. McMaiius, who resides on iten street, high aoove tno reacu
;ii. ti.o .m:iininrr ehild nishd tr. 1 1, ' of t he flood. Iten street runs from the hill
She f-itind she was unable to get up tbo ; stlCet, was swept into an alley and on to j to OTIara street. Schultz beard the pierc-
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staircase, and then tried to get to tho rear j tbe roof of a shed, where they also were
of tho house, if possible, to save tbo sleep- i saved.
in" ones by the upstairs windows. She j Ono singular feature of tho flood has not
tried in vain toron.se them. As she passed ; been alluded to. So far as we are able to
out of tho front door the side facing the ascertain only one person who escaped
Alle "heuy river fell out, carrying her with i flom the flood was injured. The dead all
it. She was swept down the run about ; j,ole marks of bruises and mangling, but
one hundred yards, and caught on the top notwithstanding the toppling of bouses and
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She clambered over tins a distance oi miy
feet, and bad to wade from that point to
the shore, a distance of about twenty yards,
in water waist deep. Her calls for assist-
! ance were responded to by several men
who happened to bo in tho vicinity, ana
who did what they could to enable ber to ,
reach the shore. Sho is in delicate healtn,
and the courage the displayed was remark
able. During tho timo that she was being
swept away Mr. A. V. Cole with his broth
er Isaac went to the rear of tbe bouse by
means of a private l.mo leading past it,
and shouting at the top of their voices eii-
who escaped from the wreck came out un
hurt. HOW THREE CHILDREN ESCAPED.
About 12 o'clock ou Sunday night, after
the water had subsided from the streets,
Mr. Walters, while sitting in his house in
Butcher's Hun, heard the cries of a child,
aud going to the window raised it just as
tbe form ofa boy floated past in the current.
Mr. Walters reached out through the open
window, and grasping the boy dragged
him into the house, and thus saved his
life. This was the boy Hoover, aud he is
tho only one saved out of a family of five.
The water was iu Mr. Walter's house at
ing screams of the drowning victims at his
home, and lushing out attempted to make
his way through the water to O'llara street.
Finding that impossible be swam down to
Centre street, aud made bis way down
nearly to Ohio street, where be found a
skiff. Notwithstanding the swift current
ho made bis way up to Centre street and
Spring Garden avenue, aud with the assist
ance of two or three other men who got iuo
the skiff succeeded in recovering eleven
bodies. Hisdescription of the scenes which
transpired during tho night were thrilling
in the extreme. He it was who discovered
the body of Officer Hess, who wasdrovvued
on Chestnut street. The victim was cling
ing to the corner of the house, and it was
found necessary to drag the body away by
main force, so tight was the death grip.
Tbe boat iu which they were riding was
caught ia a terrible maelstrom and was
whirled about with such violence that the
occupants were forced to lio down in tho
bottom to savo themselves. Fortunately
bers, no time for escape was left them.
Terror stricken, the drowning of all was is f 1 degrees Fahrenheit
imminent. Louis Steuernagel, the German
warehouseman of J. M. Carson & Co., of
this city, who lives at a elistancc of twenty
yards from the Offmans, bethought him
self of their danger. The waters were
rushing in a torrent, but undismayed he
went to the work of rescue, accompanied
by a young German, Julius Mintz, a rela
tive, recently arrived. Spite of the danger,
often thrown from their feet by the force
of the waters, they succeeded in making
four trips, each time returning with a hu
man life. The darkness was intense, and
they were often compelled to arrest their
footsteps to await the vivid flashes of light
ning to discern their destination.
There were many other acts of heroism,
but the heroes do not all survive to tell of
their perilous deeds. The grave has claim-
eel the greater part of them, and the joys
of those rescued aro embittered with the
knowledge that their saviors were lost.
ANOTHER MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
This from tbe Commercial : If there are
anj' miracles in these days tho rescue of
Mr. Baun, an elelerly man living at Wood's
Hun, may be safely classed under that cat
egory. He is totally blind, and so, of j
course, would be supposed to have but a A returning emigrant wagon passed
small chance of coming alive out of such a through Cedar Falls, Iowa, last week, Lear
terrible ordeal as that through which the ( ing tho expressive and euphonious legend,
dwellers at Wood's Huu bael to pass. Ha "D n the tbe grasshoppers."
bqu.iie nieu. I toward the qoat and said, "That' the woi st
The greatest artificial cold ever produced j ioce of sidewalk in this town." The troat
ttatcr obstructs about one-ha.f e.f the it camc iC ,Wcred his bead, made six
perpendicular rays of the sun in 17 feet, : ,,, i:ln-T;S ai)J i.is Loati Ktrrtck the
and three-fourths iu 34 feet, and less than
one-thousandth part reaches the depth of
200 feet ; hence the bottom of deep water
is in total darkness.
Inclination vs. Durv. A correspond
ent of the Lewistown Cazctte relates an
Audioscoggin legend, which has piobably
been mellowed by time, though the narra
tor says he cemld give the names, if ho
choose, as he knew the parties well iu his
boyhooel. It appears that on a clear, cold,
quiet morning, some fifty years ago, a fam
ily were seated around the table taking
their breakfast when a rap was heart! at
the door, and, as the custom then was, the
outsitler was bidden to "come in," when a
man past middle life entered, ami after
the usual salutation, seated himself in a
chair. He was a neighbor, living some
half a mile distant
j corpulent citizen on the btlt. The rr.an
j went over into a mass of old tin, dilapidated
butter kegs and abandoned hoop nkirts,
and the goat turned a sommersault tbe oth
er way, w hile the slim cit izen threw stones
at a boy seated on a eloorstcp who was
laughing tears as big as cbesnnts and cry
ing enit: "Olil it's nuff to kill a fellorf"
Dt troil Frit Prf.
The Small Boy. If there is any char
acter in real hfo calculated to excite admi
ration it is the "Small Iky" who is fomver
getting into trouble by speaking out his
sentiments. The last wise saj ing recorded
cf him is one which is said to Lave ben
uttereel at a Sunday School festivaL A
teacher, wishing to improve tho occasion,
said to the boys. "Have you enjoyed these
berries to-day?" "Yes r," "yes sir,"
He was asked to sit : came up from all sides, with untnistakab!
up and eat some breakfast, but he answer- heai tiness. ''Well, children, if you had
ed, "I don't suppose I ought to stop, for : seen these berries growing in my garden,
our house is on fire, and they sent me to
tell you."
and had slipped in through the gate with
out my leave and picked them from the
vines w-ould they have tasted as pood as
they lo now?"' "No, sir," w as the prompt
reply. "Why not?" "Because." -aid a
wide-awake boy, "then weshouldu't bav
had sugar and cream w iiii'eui.
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