REPORT OF THE CITIZENS EXECUTI
REPORT OF THE CITIZENS EXECUTI

Author: Citizens' Executive Relief Committee of

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-28

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781372644870

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Report of the Citizens' Executive Relief Committee of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Flood, of July 26th, 1874 (Classic Reprint)
Report of the Citizens' Executive Relief Committee of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Flood, of July 26th, 1874 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Pittsburgh Executive Relief Committee

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-09

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781333537241

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Excerpt from Report of the Citizens' Executive Relief Committee of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Flood, of July 26th, 1874 At Bailey's Run resided a poor widow with a son, her sole support. Their house was carried away by the ood and her son drowned. On Monday morning, ascertaining the cer tainty of her son's death. She exclaimed, My heart is broken I see my child in the clouds l and immediately dropped dead. Archie Arnold, of Madison Avenue, aged twenty-two years, bravely entered the ood to save a neighbor's children, but perished with them. Two children were taken out alive from the immense pile bf debris on East Street. One of them, a little boy, was almost unrecognizable as a human being, but still alive. The other, a little girl, was found in the attic of a house which had been moved and wrecked by the ood. She was greatly exhausted, but not otherwise injured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."