" There were three bridges below, one called Tompkins' Bridge, valued at 1400 dollars, the bridge at the Wire Mill, cost 1200 dollars, and the Quaker Bridge over which Tompkins Bridge was the New York and Albany stages pass, valued at 1500 dollars. carried away before the dam went, as were also it is believed, the other two bridges. about one Brayton, the son of one of the dam contractors, perceiving " Mr. Albert

o'clock, the danger to the people below the dam on the opposite side, by the continued rise of the water at the dam, and believing that must give way, with praiseworthy it

attention and foresight, hurried down to give the alarm, and when he arrived at Tompkins'

Bridge, a distance of a mile, he found the bridge gone, and was not able to get across. He then went to a house for a horn, which he blew, and which was heard by the persons intended to be alarmed and who lived on the opposite side but not understanding it, ;

to come they took no measures for their safety, until still later, when the water began down in torrents. Two people at Baileys' Mills occupied themselves so long in removing their property, that they could not get with safety to the main land, and repaired to

MEMOIR OF THE a small clump of trees in the channel which, lamentable to say, were afterwards swept ;

away, and no doubt these two persons were drowned. One of the laborers, lately on the works was also drowned. No dwelling house above the dam was carried away. John