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Washington street, ^vas also drowned, together with his seven children on
LiHUSt street.
Jt)hn Dihert, the banker, would not leave ihs house, near the corner of
Main an.i Market streets, and was killed. Mrs. Uihert war, not seriousU iiijured.
The spacious residence ^\as obliterated. (Jliicr nieiiibeis of tlie t.iniily
lost V. ere a dauL'luer. the wife of Walter .S. \\\mv, r. and their child, and
Blanche, little daui;hter of Mrs. John H. Dihert. One year before Mr.
Weaver's store was burned out ; in May it was flooded out and death added
to liis losses. The Diberts had rooms htted up at Cierniantown. which they
proposed to occup\ during the summer.
widely known and descr\edly esteemed.
Mr. Dibert was a prominent citizen,
The bank was originally conducted
by three partners, one of wh(>m died last year. The removal of the senior
member of the firm by the llooti led the survivor— Mr. Roberts- to put the bank
into liquidation. .\ brother of Mr. Dibert had torn down the building opposite
the bank, corner Main and Franklin streets, to replace it with a substantial
brick block. He took sick from the flood and died. In the old building J.
O.
A. Benschoof. whom young and old knew and patronized for his good humor,
kept a news-room and book-store for years, vacating on .Ipril ist. The postofiice
stands in the rear of this lot. fronting on Franklin street. Next to it
Alvar .\kers and his partner. .Mr. Bauman. had started a new block for their
store, with offices abo\e. It had progressed to the second story when theileluge
cut down Mr, .\kers and interrupted the plan which contemplated an