Show AT SHEFFIELD FiELD BRICE CALAMITY OALA Miry TWO AND FIFTY LOST at a little before nid night THES ht on oil friday last the great reser air of tile the sheffield Slie ffield water company hundred acice in extent and which one held more laore than ihan a 1 million cub cubic i c feet fee t of water suddenly burst its embankment ind and 1 swept down the narrow gorge formed by the loxle loley y an and a stannington ington hafl ig into sheffield itself almost before warning could ho he gian tile the volume me of water began 0 inkling h n 11 down the ailcy cy sweeping f funa land and houses forges forces and factories like chaff before it never probably before lias has an accident of the same kind hind occurred so ruinous in its wholesale destruction of pio property perty so lamentably fatal in the loss of chife eife the enormous mass burst dofan doan the te hillside with a din like the heaviest thunder and the unhappy cot tors in the valley ivere drowned instantaneously in their houses bioni which alicy had not tile slightest chance I 1 of escape the full fur fury of the flood spent itself on the district lying be bc tween the junction of the loyloy and the mirelin and the Neep send bridge ro scene of devastation there is awful solid and substantial buildings workshops rows of houses bridges everything 0 that opposed the course of the hood flood yielded before its overwhelming might but tile the loss of property incalculable as it is at present sinks into insignificance when compared with tile the awful loss of human life between hillsborough and matin malin bridges e stood several long rows 0 of f C cottage ot houses inhabited by the wor workmen knien d atthe the mills and forges on oil tile the adjacent streams with their families with a few exceptions tile the flood demolished all these rows of dwellings in many instances even their foundations are obliterated the enormous enor enormous moui volume of water debouching debou ching from the alie gorge of loxley valley seems mohave toli ave divided itself into tw two osti streams ams which swept with resistless foice over the hamlets of malin bridge and hillsborough leaving hillsborough and tural turning down toward Ow lerton the destra destruction appeared to be on an equally aw fill scale almost every house that remained in a habitable condition was used as a dead house on tile the sheffield side of the stream seven or ciba eight bodies were re coveted the force of the current may bj ba estimated by the fact that the massive wall bounding the barracks on the lower side was swept away the sentry at tile the gate had the narrowest possible escape tile the flood coming cl upon him with lightning alid suddenness denness in the town of sheffield itself the destruction lias has been almost greater than in the valley but thele fortunately it has been attended with comparatively little loss of life A dispatch from sheffield dated sunday evening march says SE every ve additional inquiry made into the circumstances of this appalling 0 calamity shows that it has been much more disastrous than was at first anticipated it is now estimated that the loss of life will exceed two hundred and fifty and th that at the value of property destroyed exceeds half a million from bradfield where the reservoir burst down dowl the course of the rivers for twelve or fourteen miles the country is s laid waste london times march uth |