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MO.VDAV,• • • •• • • •Awful CalamitjOnAUGUST 11. shorts of Pappoose, engaged in searching forthe dead, andjn surveying the wrecks of houses, bridges, fences, c.; The large trees which stood near the mouthlast night, (10th mst.,) he most tcrnble ; „f ercek are torn up by the roots and cast calamity, in its destruction ot life and property, i„to the Mississippi, while piles of timber lum-!hat ha« ever visited tins community, was oc* ber, drift, A.c., on every hand attest the resist-rasioned by a sudden and unprecedented fresh- less fury of the flood, et on Pappoose creek, an ordinarily irisignifi-cif-t sfreatiij which runs about centrally thro’ttiis city.We retired about Id o’clock, with tmt the dijlitcst api'rehensions of an jiiiusual storm.«About 1? o’clock it began to rairi.and from thatRiclinian . Fnlliarn’s new brick building, bythe bridge on Second street, we believe, is uninjured.Freeman’s Furniture Warehouse, just below’ the bridge, just stands and that Ua!!.. Pbis calamity calls, more than ever, upon ............. 1 “““‘s 'o„r lil,erul „,d pul,lie spirited citizc,,,, t„ cLo,t«.npa..,eJ l,y tearful llaslies ..I eleetr.cly, „p Jeafeui.li: bursts ot thuuder. ; „ijTie slrea... above nau.e I rose w.tli fatal ra- ,|a.„.jes, as soon a, the wauts of the people nb-j idity. to a height unknown in the memory of e^,i„te|y demand.«bite-mei.. becoming a bread and furious tor- We have here, too, a lesson on the folly of enit. .^weeping away houses, fences, and bridg- tkmporary improvementscs Iteforeit. One dwelling near kiuhti. strkkt ■ K.f,een thousand dollars of public money ha-totally ; bee,, swept, by this and fbrmer freshets, into theMississippi. Fifteen thousand dollars, which.I1I}Iiiicrowned in a stablCj froi;i whicli it was impos-nhfeto re«cuc him—one horse escaped however from the same stable.trcapinc with their lives—losing; a jrr^at por-tion of their furniture, c., and one borse if ^ bad been exjrended in puttinrlt;ip pe7ma-iient and durable cul\erts aiul Inidtjes, would to-day, despite the floods, furnish the citizenswith good and secure thoroult;;hfares, where now .Vear Sixth street, a small frame, occupied by ^ t|,^y entirely cut off. We trust this siiici-indusfrious widow woman, wlio sup,lo,fed Jal policy will be stopped at once, and thatand thrlt;M? small chibiren !-y her own public hberality will enable the authorities tovcrtions, was surrounded by the llood-on the do what is dune well, and secure it against theseiouer side sixty feet in w idth, and four or five caualties.tee! deep—on the other thirty or forty feet wide. | - -aijti fifteen feet deep. 'I'he cries of the uiifor-^*jnate woman, who seems to have slept in un-.cor.sciouness until all escape was cut ofl*, arous'd a feu of lier nearest nei^hbftrs, but they could .tnivier her no assistance. She had got out of *.!ie wimlew, and was uppusctl.in the darkness,:o I'e on the roof with her children, and her •creams and the cues of her habes, heard in ■ he glK)in, amid-t the roar of the flood, were !.eart-ro:.‘di:jg to tlie powerless sjectators.A lar;re tree torn up from its roots, and frag-i.efits of building-i and drift wocmI, swept down vidivio!encc against lier frail home. It stood J he 'hock—but it is inferred that at this junc-:.:e the poor womaii, loosing her |rescnce of riif.d, and unable to hear vvliat was said from :r.ehore. attcinjted to stem the flood, and es--re with her babes. This act was her dcs-: *c!ion. All perished—the moti er and three Idren. Her body was foumi when light [»ar:ially buried in huge drift-wood, at end of the house of Mr. Swem, on Fifth, a : :nd and thirty yards below her dwelling.—IAt'Aetiaie we w:itc. (7, .v. M..)lhe bodies of, lfc» children have, none of tliein been found — 'N:r Fiflh .*itjeet, some fiv-e or six flwellingsIand the people drn en out—but no ' vt' were lost. Stables, fences and gardensI'erf de'troved.T:;^':ul\ert and a jiart of titc embankment r. (Vdftrand Fourth was swept away. The 'xeoccurred at the cros.sing of Tidrd and \.lt;‘amorerand on Second street, leaving .at each Mice impassible chasms in tlie artificial em-and cutting ofl* all communication,xcert on foot, between the north and south \-actions of thecitv'- Cros.'sinir vv as done at thei\'itti of Pajiimse in a skill, early this morn- *4■■‘CPj6 cmbankinont a:;d darn, on Svcaniore at .rtL i'partiallv gone, leaving a chasm fif-^' • ♦ O ^ Cf jnfvt wh!e and twenty deep. II:.r fmbankinenl on the Avenue at Tlard-st, *Itiully gone, leaving it in an impassibleUoii.•^1*TiiI1IT:.c fuutidatioiis just coinjfleted of three or ;r iarge building' on tlic corner of tlie Ave-■ v.i riiird, are de.^troveil. I'* ft ♦ ^ IlefricK opposite the American stable, was 'rrniKjded by the flood, and the earth in front■ * i' corner tenement, was washed away to of .‘iiv or eight feet. Mr. McAuIay,ill of’Ciipied it, vacated it in the midst of the* 'un with his family, but did not attcmi*! tohilt; household fixtures. 'Iibfc Jaui near PurcelFs, on Third and Spruce, ’m; completely away, and considerable dam-’*‘doneto fences, kc.. in that quarter.Hie houses standing in the flat between Sec-a!;d Third, just above Sycamore, were :t(i. The inhabitants e-caped from the 1st ''7 of the hou'ie on Third, lliiuugh the rear'ndows, and took shelter with the family in2*tory.—their bedding, furniture, A:c., areinjured by tlic flofKl.The tainily in the frame, near Stxond, arous-•ft fl ‘ / neighbors, by their cries, and the wo-children were rescued by being borne ^^7v land on the shoulders of men. If tliis• .*ilond in the current, the inmates•’-'thave perished, as no man could statid inthe depth of four feet—as it was all their ^■ ‘H-hold furniture is wet and injured.^^ ernade an examination of the various dam**‘Wt,ridges, in company with the Hon. Mayor,^-light, this morning. Crossing Papoose ^ Xiif, at the mouth, we went with much to Mad creek, expecting to find bridge, ' anu all gone. The water liad poured over | ^ ^'aole face of the flat, doing much damage ^ rnvate property. In the vicinity of the j ^‘innmerable small fishes were floundering ’‘ e mud, left there by the receeding flood.^ l^ridge and dike stood fast—tlie bridge, '^ pflelhe mo.lt;t untoward circumstances. To aMofibhment, a huge raft of square timber ^ mat^e fast by two strong cabless to thebelow—and not less than tv%*otrf€f1saw-logs were jammed under and a-t the bridge on the upper side,^ Hie Works on .Mad Creek, the embankment liisted s, and that across third lielow the j j ^ *nue, alone remain, of all the work which J done on the several streams and ra-One half of the citizens are; lt;^oinmunication except on foot, |the business part of the city. $10,000will ‘^ *'^pair the damage done to the public works Thig, together with the loss of four hu-Hes^ and much private property, makes ^ loisfortunes the heaviest and direst i ^uiitVj which has ever befallen any western ^^of our population, .P«^rsons, men, women and chil- J''*'re to be seen this morning along theC C
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Muscatine Iowa Democratic Enquirer
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 16, 1851
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