The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-07
THE DAILY UNION.
THE FREsaFr IN TIE POTOMAC.

| HEAVY FAIL OF RAR.--ifIGH WATER -uhEAi
DESTRUCTION on rRorERrr, &e.--on Friday eve
ming, Oct 3Oth, gentle fall Of rain commenced de-
scending, which continued on up to Monday morn
ing, at times very fast, the wind during the whole
time blowing perfect gale About O'Clock on
| Monday il commenced coming down IN torrents,
and 80 continued during the whole day, and which
has caused the waters 10 rise To fearful height, de
stroying an immense amount OF property We here
annex particulars Of its rayages so far as we have
yet learned.
AT Keedysyille, three miles from here, the brdg,
over the Antletan, on the pike between Sharpsburg
| and this place, was swept entirely away. Another
large stone bridge al the same place was partly car
RED off The dam Of Mr. Watson's mill was en-
tlrely destroyed Another bridge half mile below
was also destroyed. Spring-houses, wash-houses
hog-pens, fences, &c, were swept of, Indeed
nothing escaped that II came IN contact wth 30 ylo
lent the current. The water rose us high as Il
the second story Of several houses Ia this place. and
IN one instance il with difficulty that life wa
saved The furniture got out and was dashed q
atoms among the drift. The water was never
known to overflow TO such AN extent In this place
before. IL reached the second story OF Mr.. Jones's
woollen factory and done him much damage. Hi'
| carding machine in the second story was under wa
ter, Il is estimated that not less than nifty wagon
| loads of good rails went down the creek.
| The damage done in and about heedysyle viii
amount TO between 81, 200 and 81 900.
In this place the water flowed freely, and OUT
streets could easily have been naygatedi no damage
done over and above few cellars filled. small
stream near this place was swollen 10 an enormous
height and which destroyed Mr. Davis's mill dan
near town. Mr.. RateliG had one hundred bushels
of fine apples that was lying IN his meadow carried
of. A number Of persons about half mile down
the stream were buslly engaged in catching them
with 6sh.nets, handkerchief, &C., as they aoated
along. @ ....
The Antieisn has not been as high since 1923
...H Loo And hnm uta an
far. This obscure stream looked quite lmpor-
tant the Potomac
The Potomac, we learn, was also higher than il
has been formany years, aud VIC fear that the canal
is much injured.
In every direction through the country we hear Of
trees being uprooted, fencing wished away, and
in many places great destruction has been done
to farmers in washing grain and inundaIlng corn
fields.
A number Of bridges about Rohrersville, six miles
from this place, was washed away.
We have frequently had occasion TO notice
fresbes the past summer, but they are all eclpsed by
this one
The WilIiamsport (Md.) Banner Of yesterday
says
"The very heavy and almost incessant rains that
have fallen during the past four days, up to Monday
evening last, have raised the waters in our district
ofcountry to an unusual height. During Friday,
time the rain came down in torrents, which, by
Tuesday noon, had swollen the Potomac and Como
cocheague to alarming height-in fact lttle short
of the height of the unparalleled eshets Of 1910, or
that OF September, ls43. Old Potomac got into a
foaming rsge-on went its irresistible floods in swift
whirling eddies, carrying down up.rooted trees,
huge logs fencing hay-stscks, corn-shocks, straw,
&c. &c. The Conococheague bridge has boeH I'M
capped and somewhat damaged, The bottoms all
along the course of the Potomac, which we're sown
in wheat have been ruined. It's yet impossible to
report the damage done the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, as the waters, at the time of writing this
tiCle, TUESDAY EVENING" maintain considerable
heght-though fears entertained that it has been
vastly injured"
The FRESHET.-We regret to learn that conside-
rable damage has been sustained, in many neigh
boring places, in consequence of the late freshet.
Among other disasters, we learn that the mill of
Messrs. J. J. Wheat & Brother, few miles from
town, ha, been considerably injured, the dam wash
ed away, &c. We are also informed that portion
of the long bridge, thirty or forty feet 10 length,
hss been washed away, and the draw settled down.
In Georgetown the water is said to nave overlooked
the town as high up Water street. We are hap
py to state that damage has been sustained in our
own town, nor do we hear of any to the canal.
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