Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-04
Great Deluge in Ithica New York.
A laitar from, Ithico Naw VnrL Jo,oI

This town was yesterday visited by the
most destructive flood that ever came
upon it, from the many streams that pour
their waters into the basin of the Cayuga
| lake. The rain Of yesterday was deuge.
The waters of the Six Mile Creek, gathered
from the many hill sides brought with them
trees unsborn of roots or branches, sweep
ing away the log boom of the Giles saw
mill pond, about one mile above this village,
and bringing down by a rupture in the dam
the accumulated waters of the pond, rs well
as the large stock of logs secured by the
boom. The dam of the Halsey grist mill
gave way, and poured the confined waters
of this second mill pond into the already
swollen stream.
The waters with terrible energy swept
off the whole line of buildings upon the bank
of this creek, and flooded nearly the entire
town.
The stack Of chimneys and outside ar
rangcments for the large steam engine of
The llalsey grist mill was carried away
Their barn, already surrounded by water
tar out into the stream, was swept off with
its occupants, four horses aud four men,
The horses and the men, as they parted from
the building. struggled for the shore, and
the struggle was awfuly exciting among
such mighty whirl Of piled up waters =
Some of the men and horses were carried
with the fabrick, crump!ed into shapeless
mass, through the contracted arch of a stone
bridge, and took fearful plunge below, and,
strange to say man and horses passed
through unharmed One horse reached a
mile below, alive. One young man, Mat
thew Carpenter, has not been heard from
He is drowned, of course. Presently the
massive stone arch spanning the stream
gave way and the human beings pFecipitat-
ed many feet into The waters so mad with
confinement and frighiful in their rage, re.
newed the struggle for life they had just
seen their fellows make, and with an ear
nestness rs dreadful.
Mr.. Moses Reeves, daguerrean artist,
buoycd up by floating timber, was seen
to ride high above the surface with portions
OF his body, for distance, then, struck by
a log, he disappeared, and to his friends was
lost; bu, by strange good fortune he
states that he emerged some rods below,
clnging with death grasp to his float
Onward he hoatcd, among the wrecks of
buildings and furious surf. and saw fel-
low voyager in the same rapid current,
Mr.. David Coon, gunsmlh, who clutched
with him the float and hung with it until he
was struck of by floating timber. At
| eleven o'clock at night Mr. Reeves reached
dry land about one and n half miles below
his place off starring He states that two
o;Eier peraoas he saw so down. He never
, afterwards saw them.
During this time the extensive morocco
factory and tannery Of Samuel Stoddart, at
the east end of the arch bridge, and the
dwelling of James Clos, at the west end /;
portions of the Farms Hotel, WilcoX's live
Wy stable. and other smaller buildings in
in the vicinity the entire livery stables and
barns of James Cowles the hat shop and
buildings of j s. Ticker, portion of Mr..
| Esty's iannery, the tobacco factory of H. {. .
| Grant. the dlstiliery, some barns Of the
Forest City House, had tumbled with a
crash and been swept off by the food
| Piles of buildings rocked to pieces and logs
had formed barricades in front of dwellings,
on Cayugn street, where it runs parallel with
The creek. The stream becoming blocked
up branch forked out ploughing channel
among the dwellings, in the vicinity. whose
affrighted inmates hurried through the
rapids for dear life. A number Of men, wo-
men and children climbed Tor safety a tree
standing near the former bank Of the creek.
| Darkness closed in uponthem The plung
ing waters uprooted the tree. Alfescaped
toan island, and spent the night in safety in
the wreck Of Moore's sash and blind factory,
except Mr.. Hawly, brewer, who was swept
down the current. His wife heard his
farewell to her as he swept past his dwell
| ling in the darkness. The morning found
him far out upon the marsh, and this after.
noon the coroner holds bis inquest upon his
lifeless corpse.
Adown the main street of The village the
water rushed from the bursting banks of
the unruly creek full up TO the gambreI
joints of ofhorses. IL Itspreads out over large
portions Of the town. The plank of the
main street is corded up high. Here the
ancient soil of below the gravel is in furrows
exposed; there instead of furrows. a depo-
sill is made Of soil from some far of tanners
lands. Very many get noticed by some
marring stroke of this 9nfriendIy fiood.---
But Mr.. Stoddard, the Messrs. Halsey, the
Cayuga division of The Susquehanna Rail-
road losing considerable of their track
and the corporation, are the largest suf
| ferefs ,I
THE Hamiltot Banner tells an amusing
story about the non.ful6llment of predc-
tions by a sable clairvoyanl, touching the
late races in thatciiy, and shows how some
poor fool lost $500 by depending on a
wretched sorceress The woman too, it is
said lost $3.50 on the race, bat she managed
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