The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-03-14
THE GREAT FRESHET.

Accounts continue to come in, of the dis
asters occasioned by the extraordinary rise
of the western waters. From the copious
details with which the papers from, that sec
ton are filed. we make the following ex-
tracts, in addition to the particulars already
published by US:
A poor man, who was employed 10 digging
Goals, having gone To work in the all ernoon,
leaving his wife and four children in small
cabin near the Monongahela river, above Pitts
burg, found on his return in The evening that
his dwelling had been carried off by abe flood
aud nothing has since been heard at his un-
fortunate family, it is supposed that tn ey have
all persisted. Two men are likewise stated to
have been drowned at Brownsville, and two
grewn persons and an infant at Allcg hsnytown
Warrentown, IA miles below Steubenville, is
sa!d to have been deprived of nearly one half Of
its buildings, about sixty in number Among
those carried away, was ware-hd nse contain
ing 800 barrels o. -four, which was afely odg
ed on Wheeling Island Another sc cunt states
that two.thirds of the buildings in this place,
including three are,houscs, have been swept
off.
a part of the village of Aberdeen, opposite
Maysville. was entirely submerge d. the roots
of the houses alone being above w'ater-and
many of the Inhabitants were compelled to
abandon their dwellings
! The pleasant villages of New Richmond,
Point Pleasant, Moscow, Neville, CHI 10 and Pal
| estinc, abave Cincinnati, have been literally de-
populated; and the editor of the o hio San gives
it as his opinion that the loss sus'ta' ned by the
citizens Of Brown county. exceeds 5000
The la, sest steam boats might, II is stated, IN
the Cincinnati papers, "have pssse from Vine
street down Second" where, at the intersection
OF Elm, the water was "upon the roof OF Mr.
Tatem's house." {" From Mill or eek TO Deer
Creek, a distance of two miles, ind from the
river up to lower Market and Pear streets, was
one continued sheet Of water, exc pting only
where the walls of the buildings Lid it from
the sight, varying in depth from ne to five
and twenty feet and upwards, ich, from
| Tuesday tae l4ih, to Tuesday thu, glst, was
| covered with boats, arks and RATS of every des
cription,' and it is believed that, " du ring the
three or four last days before the water began
TO reccde, not less than from, one hun ID red and
fifty to two hundred skifrs and boats were bull
within the city, for the purpose of moving
the persons and property of the inh a',itani'
TO places of security. Fire hundred ia miles
many of which have lost their all, are lid Il
have been obliged to abandon their DIV, II ings
and two or more persons are underst d Il
have been drowned, The total loss of prop erty
is estimated at between 100000 and 81 & co.,
900. Among the sufferers, we rcgrc; to ST 0tt
is the editor Of the Commercial Daily far err
tissr, whose counting room although in he
fourth story of a large brick building on tl't
bank of the river, was completely overf1owe ed,
and his papers, books, &C. seriously injurt d.
The publication of his paper was suspended for
two weeks-the height Of the water preventin g
all access to the printing office. The pnblica
lion of the american has also been suspended
from the same cause.
Shippingport, Portland, and New Albany,
were totally overfowed; but what is the
amount of damage at these places, we have no
means Of ascertaining.
Lawrenceburgh, in Indiana, was completely
inupdated-the water being said to have been
from ten to twenty feet deep over the greater
part of the town. No particulars of the dam
age sustained in this town have, however.
| reached US.