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Show parative" safety tiieTa dy who woi.Id nut go, arid her husoaiid, H.tchcd tiiis iii id monster of angry waters p, ow it; roa I of destruction down the canyon, and trembled for Mann nestled a, the foot of the hills, in the wry mouth of the gorge. Three thousand teet of slabs were swept before it like shingles end occasionally occas-ionally white flashes ot them appear-e appear-e l in the dark rolling tide. In speaking of it afterward the pentlcmari to whom the aothor is indebted for this description. ( Mr. Fred Alder,) said the beauty, gratid- . uer and tenor of such a scene, ton id never be accurately described. ; and that it was worth a great deal ! to witness such a s'orm, .This sturni occured on the 19th of Anvils!, an ! was the father of the fir-a disa.-.troiis ilood that visited Mjti'i, an account of the ravages which it perpetrated, having been given to the puldic by the p.toersof that date. j ST )1 M I N TH E V.'A 3 ATCM . ; W,:t:r. r.l lh; kr-.lsTFK i The party at the saw mill had spent a most agreeable outing, ihe day were fervidly warm, the nignts jdelightiulty cool, a id no lover of 1 nature c iuld ever tire of looking up the l!g slopes crowded with the j niaie.itir saw-timber, gjtheiing the j varied, and lovely 'lowers that I bloom iii such rich, unsullied pro-I pro-I fusion" high up on our mountains, at that season of the y. xr; or nfli-ttn-: ititr to statelv son;:.-, of praha or 1 the solemn dirges played by tiie e 0 : shifting idle nim.r.Urn breezes. ! Five minutes walk and .te was in ' the mid ,t of tra'ckhts's solitude., ten! j minutes walk and it was e::Y to im-' im-' agin - that ou k ere t';e unlv !ivi;j brine on the f jce of the earth, for 'all of human sight cr sounds. 1 ,ie sawmill, where the pleasure seekers were h.m .rd, was nV.-p in a. narrow canyon or rather ravine, ana the parallel bills (tit oil the view ; both north and south to a great ex- . tent, save the sight of their own rock- , ribbed grandeur; bat to the ea.it rose the bare cliftV. of yet loftier j mountain ;, while to the west were zig.ag downward .dopes of the Can- : yon leading to the plains below. It had been a remarkably still day; and a barvmeler would, no doubt, have ..liow.i a very light ; atmosphere, but the skv was cloudless. cloud-less. iJeep in the gulch v..' had no ex- ' tended view of I he heaven-;, and ' the sun shine down mi tu brightly, : uiitil a sionu from the south -we ?t J upon us. Dark as midnight, .' moving swiftly and silently, save 1 fcr an occasional hoarse voire of thunder from its gloomy intend: . with clear, cut ed..'e,the cloud 1. ov- , ed with great "rapidity t-cv o I us, j its seemingly solid surface lit up 1 . now and then with a broad spectra! sheet of blue lightning. Ahniiit before we had time to re- j , ; asue wnat was aoout to happen, rue ; cloud rolled over us, and we were in the mid t of that grand display of : nature, a thunder storm io the Wa-sa'ch. Wa-sa'ch. d he clotid, for it seemed ; to be but one.was fully charged with electricity, and as it covered us as the billows of the sea might roll over the coral reefs, its weight hung upoa t;s like water logged clothes. Titerain seemed to be made all around us, and not to fail, butsiiiip-ly butsiiiip-ly to condense. The darkness was I almost tangible, and the thunder ! surrounded us on all sides, and under jour feet the solid earth was shaken, j Great trees were caught by the fit-jful fit-jful blasts and hurled headlong, and : the crash of their fall mingled with I the rush ofivater and cannonading "'n i'iHuumi' .n&kw LirfllUtUJii. : curled an.! rithed in a thousand ! sinuous rushes along the very earth ! and the mountain seemed to have j withdrawn from us, and left ds in I a wo 1 Id of water. ' In three minutes the hill-sides I were flowing in many rivukts, and :the mill-yard, although very'inuch 1 sloped, were six inches undeV water, j The storm passed over us going j north-cast, the rain bee .me less ' dense, the clouds lifted a little, the thunder sounded further oil, and we could hear the lightning striking here and there on cliffs higher up. We survived the flood, although the summer shelter we called houses had presented no impediment to ! either falling rain or running streams, A huge lire was immediately start j ed in the yard, where the drenched company, who were in fact nearly drow ned, could dry their saturated j clothing. There was no end to the merri- i merit that crystaiized into good na-t na-t tired jokes, nor to the congratulation congratula-tion bandied about that the storm j had been short. Our respite, however, was brief, ; for upon our alarmed ears fell a j successions of sounds such as we had never heard beore, and for which we could assign no cause. If an army of demons had been marching upon us destroying everything every-thing in their path, the sounds could hardly have been more appalling. Some of the sounds were like agonised agon-ised human cries, choked in the utterance, heavy blows and hoarse sounds of rage from gigantic' throats; shrieks and groans of the same titanic meaiare. arid as a background back-ground to these, a sullen roar that can ted with it a conscious power and terror indescribable in human language. lan-guage. j Nearer and more near tsme the i mighty tumult, growing louder and j more threatening, and to our strained strain-ed atid apprehensive attention the crushing and grinding of rock and tree, the rolling of huge boulders bould-ers over and over with deafening report, re-port, the overthrow of mighty trees caving of banks ami rush of water formed an awe inspiring panorama of sound. By this time, five minutes perhaps, per-haps, the first of the flood appeared some little distance otf.headed by a vast battering rain of uprooted trees. It traveled very slowly, for the writhing,, groaning' twisting : timbers formed an almost impregn-1 impregn-1 able barrier. j As soon as we divined what it was, 1 the women and younger members of the party were sent to the hill for safety. With one exception they obeyed with alacrity the injunction to go higher; that exception was a lady who stood by her husband, j saying if he stayed she would stay , also, if there was danger she would shart it, for if he were killed she did I not wish to be left alive. The head of timbers was forty j jeet d eep, and from a j lace of com- |