The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

IRELAND

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY .EVENING.
THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
The latest. news from Cork announce the entire
appearance of the west of the city to be one of
devastation Along the roads and-the, streets the
ground resembles a sea strand, and large holes
have been torn up here and there, which remain
filled with water. The parlours and kitchens -of
the houSes were inundated, and the adjacent fields
till remain flooded to the depth of seven or eight
feet... Trees lie along, torn up by the roots, and
large walls overthrown, and the masonry scattered

abCiut. The houses at the corner of iho Carrig-
rohane road were submerged to such a degree
that the inhabitants had to forsake them, and nar-

rowly escaped destruction in doing so.

Several

mills in the vicinity have been obliged to cease
working, and the road to. Ballincollig is altogether

tupassible. The gaol bridge is also unfit for use,
.nd the only wonder is that it was not totally de-
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iolished. At Mardyke, a twenty ton barge was
eposited in one of the gardens by the flood.
When the flood was at its height, Mr. Joyce, the

governor of the county gaol, came to Mr. C-unning-
ham, steward of the Queen's College, and begged
of him to get out his boat, in order to rescue a
family consisting of a lady and several children
whQ were in extreme peril in one of the houses on
Western Terrace. The boat was accordingly pro-
cured, not without considerable difficulty. It was
found necessary to attach ropes to it, towed by
three turnkeys of the gaol, named Stephensoti,
Burns, and Flynn. In dragging the boat to the

house in which the family-mreie, the three men
were in the water up to their arm pits. The lady
was then lifted on men's shoulders into the boat,
and iconveyed to the Queen's College; and the
children were conveyed in the arms of the turn-
keys to the boat, and thence to the same building.
Mrs. Quill, and Mrs. Wilson were also carried .;to
the College. A great number of children who had
been overtaken by the flood, were compelled to
clamber on the top of the wall bounding the
Western road, from which position they called
loudly for assistance. They were lifted into the
boat and placed safely in the. College, not, hOw-
ever, without several upsets, from one of which a
Child had a narrow escape of being drowned. There
were also two cows in a yard at the rear of Western
Terrace, which were also placed in the boat, abd
pushed into the windo3v into the parlour of one of
the houses on the terrace, and thence upstairs,
in which they remained until the waters had sub-
sided.

South Gate Bridge, and the Lee Bridge, are
also so injured as to be considered unsafe. : .
At Fair Hill, three men threshing in a barn were
-swept away, and have not been since heard ;of.
Several persons are missing, who, it is supposed,
perished at the accident on Patrick's Bridge.
A gentleman who was standing near Parliament
bridge on Thursday, states he saw a raft floating
down the stream, on which were five persons, tlvo
men and three women. They have not, however,
been since heard of.
During the extreme height of the floods a woman
was at the slip at Gillabbey washing some clothes,
near the Bishop's Palace: She states that she saw
two females carried down along the flood, and they
were followed shortly afterwards by several articles
of house furniture. .

At Mallow the bodies of three persons lost in the
flood have been discovered. Inquests were held
on. Thursday, and a verdict returned of "accidental
death from the flood." A fourth person is still
missing. At Kanturk, two similar inquests were
held. Lives are also supposed to be lost in Mill-
street, and Macroon, and on the waters subsiding,
an immense amount of dead cattle, sheep, and
horses were discovered.

The Killarney junction railway has suffei-ed-
damage to the value of several thousand pounds.
Willerstown, County of Waterford, was flooded
by the Blackwater, and bridges, cattle, corn, and
hay destroyed. The same river flooded Lismore in
a similar manner, carrying away five arches of 'the