The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-02-14

foRr IiEposlr. The rise Of the water and
the rush Of ice at Port Deposit on Monday
has caused great loss of property there
Up till this morning. |fridav.) no mail
has been received here from that town, dur
ing the week, and consequently we have no
letters frosa our attentive correspondents
there. On Thursday We went to Pcrryvl!o,
intending TO 60 up the river, bu, found no
means Of conveyance.
While there we gathered the following
particulars. A large number Of the small
houses between the Min Street and the river
haze been thrown from their foundations,
many Of them entirely demolished and their
inhabitants dtivento the hills. The dwell
ing Of Henry Douty has been carried con-
siderable distance from where it stood.
The bark mill and tannery of Mr.. James
l.. Maxwell has been seriously damaged
The large chimney, or "stuck:' at hia engine
house, fell upon his steam engine and boiler,
destroying both. Lie also los. quantity of
ground bark.
The buildings Of Messrs Carson and Steel,
at the upper end Of the village, are damaged
Rowlana's warehouse had the end stove in:
ard in it and other warehouses, much grain,
salt, Sc, has been damaged and destroyed.
The Main street is blocked up with ice,
lumber aud broken buildings, until it is i'm.
o sable.
A vessel OH the stocks at TIccAart's wharf,
has been driven up aga;nc. house near by,
doing it considerable damage.
The water rase so high that it was two
feet deep on the floor Of the Bank; il was up
ON the street hy the store of j. W. .tbra-
hams, and az the Methodist parsonage, the
preacher was taken out Of the second Story
window into q boat it is also said to have
been p on the door Ct A. Shows Sl'r.
The loss TO the town we heard estimated
Sariously at 500, 900: $4,000 AMI 5000.
600. 49,
Part OF he old bird &c west of Kerr's
Island was thrown down ana carried some
two or three miles below Perryv,lle: it stands
above the ice like ''long, low black sclloon-
En-" Several spans, between the town and
The islands are. also, down, lying among the
ice IA " to be carried of when the ice gives
way t'bw. The falling of the bridge cut
the teleglaphic communication, as the wires
passed over it. Men were at work putting
wire over on the ice bet ween perryville and
Havre de Grace.
At the Ferry the r. r. Company boat
vas y ing in the ice in the middle Of the river
where she had been fast since noon on We'd
nesday. Tho water there was said to be-
twelve feet above its ordinary cvtl, 1t being
damned up by the accumulation Of. ice on
The fats below.
Passengers weFe crossing or the ice, and
lnFn were carrying baggage over on poles
Tnere was n proposition to lay track
across, ard it was supposed it uoall te done
10 day.
OTHER PARr;crEAGs. From gentleman.
who had been at Port on Wednesday. We
learn the following additional particulars -
In short terms all the: side OF the street next
til. river is in runs.
The water vas foot and half deep in
the second story of the house occupied by
Messrs. A. Snow and J. c. Ford, and the
end Of it knocked cat by the ice. The kitch-
en- was swept away from the house Ct VIM.
McCulougi,, and the honse damaged
Tones Warehouse was moved from its foun-
dalton. Tie steamboat Gipsey is on one side
and her hull damaged; the Port Deposit is
wheeled around wilh her stern in the stream ..
and is in danger Rinchart's lumber ward,
warehouse and oHicc at Bell's Ferry, dilecily
across the river, are, all swept away.
give are permitted to COPY the following
letter, dated on Wednesday:
Within the past Sc hours, our enterprsing
little Town has Undergone most heart sick
enng change, such a dne as probably does
not olive within the memory Of the oldest
inhabi:ant.". The eye in its survey Of the
entire length of our village, is entertained
Win i'Vthi9is, out plStaitu ue'pia'ioh' ~ ouu
den rise Of the river, with q consequent in
cr,ase'in the force Of the current, carrying
with it large bodies Of ice, has crushed or
swept of everything that opposed its passage.
The Bridge has been carried away, and am
told there is now no communication between
Kcrr'S Island and the town. bat BY boats,
even the Old Stone Warehouse. whose vcner-
able form for so many years has stood de.
iiant Of each pitilcss storm, has at length
yielded, and now shows immense openings in
its west aud north walls: very many Of the
smaller dwellings, have been oycrthrown, ard
their inmates compelled to ask shelter of
their less injured neighbors; the Lumber
yards, apparently, are nothing but the de-
rnolisled remnants Of uncard for property.
Some Of the cilizens have lost their all, while
tanh ono has been more or less injured. Such
a Waterloo lcene presume you never wit
nczsed. 4 number Of faDrilies haze been
'.iysnHnav and noseit but nnbmn6, d, Vim