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On July 17th there sailed for Equope from New York on the steamer “City of Chicago,” one Griffiths Williams, with his wife and four children.
The center of interest was the youngest member of the family, little Moses Williams, then about six weeks old. His little life began in the flood itself, which at the very time was sweeping away so many thousands of lives, in the attic of a building where the parents had taken refuge. It was while death was all about and threatening his parents that little Moses drew his first breath.
“He doesn't look any the worse for it now,” said a reporter who saw the party off, “and it was probably fright that made him so bald. He is remarkably bright and healthy looking, and on the steamer everybody wanted to pet and talk to him. Being naturally of a retiring disposition he seemed to object to the unusual attention bestowed upon him, and he finally resented so much familiarity, and screamed and kicked lustily in his mother's arms.”
Mr. Williams, a robust and sturdy young man, who was employed at the Cambria Iron Works at the time of the flood, in speaking of the disaster, said:
“Houses were being crushed to shapeless masses on every side, and the shrieks and screams of drowning men, women, and children
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