The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-23

siboooo over $500 900 bushes of wheat having been
destroyed The rise Of the Wheeling creek The llth
was never before equalsd. ASOve rssiepha The Kemp
neid railroad bridge totally ssept away, and the
country round was completely Inundated
FLOODS AND STORMS IN INDIANA.
On the lin inst the wabash river with fghtful
rapidly after the previous oopsus rains, end the river
bottoms were completely inundated. Tho Wsa and Wild
cat creeks 70 be mighty rivers. and the railroads
leading over them washed away Bat little
planted previous to the food and whole farms becoming
submerged siarss amount Of grain In barns Wa lost
THE STORMS IN MARY LAND.
The wonderful rain storm Of the 18th inst flooded Bal
umore. No less than twenty turnpike bridges in he VI
cny were swept sway, md three persons were dro
cd. The neigh5orng stream Of Gsoynes Falls, Schre
ders Run, Herrpgs Run, Rock Run and the Patapsco,
and all tributary streams, were greatly swollen, carry
ing away immense smount Of property, in bridges,
dams, pierr, buildings and crops was the most de-
ftructve food that in for twenty
one years.
FREsuBrS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The memorable of the nth inst did considerable
damage In the vicinity Of Philadelphia. In the rural por
tons Of the city crops sustained great damage.
Along the Delaware the lower wharvcs were over
flowed, doing some little damage, but along the
Schuylkil the injuries were extensive. Nearly &C.
ven feet Of water poured over the dam ss Fair
mount carrying with much valuable property, and all
the wbasves below submerged. In the vicinity Of
Aansyunk the Ridge turnpike overnowed, and
raj thousand dollars worth OF property destroyed
DAMAGES TO RAILROADS AND CANALS.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad has . number Of
breaks in the embankment the tressel work Of Mil
creek bridge greatly injured. The damages ai the
Whitewater canal have already been alluded to above
Sod lie there In n
damage TO track alone 10 estimated at 81, 500.
The Little Miami Railroad has had the bridge ct Dnck
creek disodged by food and 7ersl lard slides little
further on, but the damages have been temporarily
paired
The Hamilton and Dayton road had the ressel work Of
the bridge at Cummngsvue, and part of the embank-
men. under one track near Carthage, carried away.
On the CoviDgton and Lexington road large land slide
occurred eighteen miles from Covington.
On the Cincinnati. Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis road
the main portions OF bridge Guiford carried
away The damages this and other bridges have
repaired.
The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Gainesville road was
INSTRUCTED by land slide near GAINESVILLE.
On the Alton and 81. Louis Railroad train blown
OF the track by tornado at Lexington and two hundred
and fifty feet of the road between Alton Terre Haute
had been washed away.
The Ptsburg and steubenvie road was oostructed by
land slide Ut Georgetown.
On the lafayette and Indianapolis road . train was
thrown OF the track, and engineer and fireman killed
by several culvers being carried away by the food Of
the Wabash
The Toledo, Wabash and Western railroads. over weA
creek Indiana entirely swept away doing damaee
10 the amount of $4,000.
The Chicago and Quincy Railroad suffered from the
washing away or culverts near Quincy.
is impossible to estimate the damages 10 the Wabash
and Eric canal at WaIcct FIVE hundred feet OF the en-
bankment gone. The State bridge also gone and
there large breaks at Atca Dauphin Logansport
ard Wabash.
ESTIMATED DESTRUCTION or PROPERTY.
The diversified nature Of the devastation and the vast
extent Of country which IL covers, renders
estimate Of the damsee next to impossible We can,
however, approximate TO . result, as follows
Cotton crop, 400 900 bales $40 0o00 900
0rhip crotss.. lO,0oO0OO
Sugar crop SO COO hogsheads. ........... 100000
Towns, buildings, bridges, mills, levees and
farming stock... .......-....- oVoO,0U
Rallroaos and canAs.. 200
TOTAL. ~ 100000
This but rough estimate. We feel certain no wever
that 30 far exaggersting the aggregate Losses
tanned down, figures fall short OF The reality
And these ossts though not generally felt by imam
cal and commercial classes now will undoubtedly leave
their impressions upon fnanclers, stockholders, banks
merchants and all Interested in the profits losses Of
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