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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting European news. (search)
the river were three and four yards deep in water. Great numbers of men are now engaged getting dead bodies out of houses where they have been drowned in bed. Others are being gathered in from gardens into which they have floated. Excitement in the town cannot be described. Business is at a standstill. Extent of mischief cannot be ascertained; hundreds of lives are sacrificed. The dam was a new one. The immense volume of water is still pursuing its course of destruction. Rotherham, Doncaster and many other towns will suffer ere the river Trent receives the excess of water which has been set at liberty. Dead.[from the Sheffield telegraph, March 14.] From the large quantity of trees and brushwood brought down the river the victims, who were for the most part drowned while escaping from their beds, are found bruised and quite nude if nude those may be called who have received, instead of the night dresses the driftwood has removed, a thin clothing of clay. Some of the d