American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-11-06
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tern section Of the Suite. The Cumberland Al
leghanian of Wednesday says:
From Friday night last until Monday morn
ing, we had damp, drizzly weather, with occa'
sional showers, and on Monday morning, for
several hours, the rain came down in torrents,
The water in Wills creek rose rapidly, and by
8 O'Clock had reached as high point as the
fteshet of June last The North Branch of the
| Potomac also lose to an unusual height, and
the union of the two waters, caused a flooding
OF the lower part Of the town, snch, as we are
assured, has not been witnessed for many years.
Many dwellings, were completely surrounded by
water, and hundreds Of cellars filled.
The damage to property, it is supposed, is
not as great as was occasIoned by the June
freshet; butithe aggregate loss must be consid-
erabe The Exchange Hotel building of Mr..
Geo. Hoblitzell, occupied by Mr.. John Black,
was completely surrounded by water, and the
foundation undermined-th house giving sew
Gral inches.
The Mt. Savage and the Md. Mining Com
pany's railroads, both sustained some injury,
in the washing away of embankments, &c
but nothing serious. Some corn and con-
siderable fencing were swept from the bottoms
on the river.
He DdltlIuOI6 CdIe uue H6IC OH NOIudy
evening at O'clock did not arrive until Tues
day morning at Sand we learn that the rail-
road was overlooked at various points. The
bridges were all safe; and the extent of the da-
mage TO the road, if any, could not be ascer
tanned untl the waters assuaged.
We regret to learn from the Civilian, that
Mr.. Peter Smith lost all, or a great part of his
crop of corn, from the island below town, by
the rise OF the waters of the Potomac.
The damage in the region around Harper
Ferry, has also been severe. The Charestown,
Va. Free Press of yesterday, says:
The Potomac and Shenandoah rivers were
rising rapidly on Tuesday afternoon, and gen
tleman who has lived all his life near the Poto-
mac, states that it was within two feet of the
highest water mark, when he left, and was then
rapidly rising, at the rate of a foot an hour.
P. S. The waters of the Shenandoah and Po-
tomac are doing great deal of injury at Har-
per's Ferry, Families have been driven from
their homes, which are almost completely mum
dated.
The water is knee deep in portion of She
nandoah street, and some five or six feet in the
kitchen Of Capt. Abel, Of the U. S. Hotel.
day night; the water was within foot of the
railroad bridge, and still slowly rising-about
two inches an hour. Great fears are entertain
ed for its safety
We learn fl ON passengers in the Cumberland
train, that the small water courses further up
the Potomac are higher than ever before known
and when we take into consideration that the
water is yet TO pass down, it may we'll strength
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at Harper's Ferry.
We have not heard of any loss of life.
Further Particulars Great Destruction. BY
last nights Western mail we have an extra
from the Boonsboro Odd Fellow, with the fol.
lowing account of the damage done in that
vicinity:
At Keedysvile, three miles from here, the
bridge over the Antietam on the pike between
Sharpsburg and this place, was swept entirely
away. Another large stone bridge at the same
place was partly carried off The dam at Mr..
Watson's mill was entirely destroyed. Anoth.
or bridge half a mile below was also destroyed
Spring houses, Wash.houses, Hog pens, fen
ces, SIC. was swept off. Indeed nothing escap-
ed that it came in contact with, so violent was
the current The water rose as high as to the
second story of several houses in this place and
in one instance it was with difficulty that life
was saved The furniture got out and was dash
ed to atoms among the drift. The water was
never known to overflow to such an extent in
this place before. 1t reached the second story
of Mr.. Jones' Woolen Factory and done him
much damage. HIS carding machine in the Sc
cond story was under water. 1t is estimated
that not less than SO wagons loads Of good rails
went down the creek.
The damage done in and about Keedysvile
will amount to between $1,000 and $4,000.
In this place the water flowed freely and our
streets could easily. have been navqated; no
damage done over and above few cellars filled
A small stream near this place was swollen to
an enormous height, and which destroyed MIR.
Davis ml-dam, near town. Mr.. Ratclf had
100 bushels Of fine apples that was lying in his
meadow carried off A number of persons about
half mile down the stream were busly en-
gagged in catching them with f,h-nets, hand.
kerchels, &c. as they hoa,ed along.
The Antietam has not been as high since
1923, and was never known TO transcend its
bounds so far. This obscure stream looked
quite as important as the Potomac.
The Potomac, we learn, was also higher
than it has been for many years, and we fear
that the Canal is much injured.
In every direction through the country we
hear of trees being uprooted, fencing washed
away, and in many places great destruction has
been done to farmers in washing out grain and
inundating corn-6elds.
A number of bridges about Rohrersville, sz
miles from this place, was washed away.
We have frequently had occasion to notice
freshets the past summer, but they are all eclips
ed by this one.
We understand, says the Georgetown Advo
cate, there have been several cuts made in the
embankment of the Canal, between this and
Harpers Ferry, for the purpose of letting of
the water and saving the entertainments, which
are entirely overaown in many places. There