The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-05


streets in few places have been torn w
little, We think any intelligent contractor
wonld be glad to take the contract to put
bridges, roadways aud streets in first rate
order for $4,000.
Misunderstood that there are minor losses
that cannot be reported for publicat ion, but
We think our estimates willWore than cover
all of them. Here is the = .....ra or
.......i q SUMMARY, ,.Is.
Business Losses, ,... $l25 900
Domestic Losses .'.... ....s.. -. 10000
Public Iasses (excepIing canal, railroads 81
and hydraulic) ...''.....''''.' $4,000
Grand total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $3.50, ,0OO
81. Hamilton and Vicinity.
The Cincinnati Times publishes the fol-
lowing description of the condition of af.
fairs in and near Hamilton up to Friday
evening
The water around Hamilton was three
feet higher than was ever before known
Oh the left bank of the river the houses
vera generally above high water mark,
though few suffered severely; but on the
opposite shore houses, mills, tan.yards, aud
other buildings suffered soverely-the
water reached the sCcond.story windows
of many of them--so that now, with the
subsiding waters, they present most dole
full spectacle.
The loss to the private citizens will be
very large, and will reach many thousands
OF dollars, though, as yet, no very correct
estimate on that score can be made. All
communication across the river between the
two parts Of town, except over the railroad
bridge, is cut of, and the trade Of tho town
is in about the ilattest condition one can
imagine, 4.i ST.. H.tt
The old bridge was solid structure
built nearly half u century since, when TIM
Der was less scarce and lumber less costly
tuan now; no pains were spared to give it
that quality so desirable, durability; and
to show how far the managers succeeded,
it ia only necessary to state that up to this
week it has defed the foods and drifts and
wear of nearly fifty years, aud was appar
emily as solid the day before it fell as the
day after it was completed .''' '4-
Norris it probable that it coull be sue
cumbed to tho food alone this time; but
trees and drift-wood innumerable, aud two
large bridges carried away from above,
struck it in the center, and 80 shattered it
that it creaked and shook but still it held
out till large sycamore tree came swinging
down the current, and struck one of it's
ends against the pier in the center of the
stream, and shattered it so badly that q few
hours after the structure fell and was swept
away by the current.
How the Connorsville Railroad bridge,
which was located but a little below the
wreck, escaped destruction, we cannot un.
derstand but it did escape, not only de-
struction, but serious injury.
The embankment between Hamilton and
the river, on the Dayton Road, WAS terribly
cut up. For several hundred feet it was
carried away; but with the usual energy
which characterizes Mr.. Mclean and his
ass slant, Mr.. Williams, the whole z p will
be filed by this afternoon. Over o hun
dred men were at work all last night, and
gravel aud rock trains were running con-
tinually. Some of the men were wadng in
water three or four feet deep at six o'clock
last night, but this morning all were on high
dry land ouce more, .,...t...
BY this gap, connection with Hamilton
was completely broken. An engine which
fortunately lay at little station this side
OF Creek, served the workmen north of
the break, and when recrossing for them
to go from it to Hamilton, they were com
PEELED to ride considerable distance in a
skif.
In the evening, the engine referred to
was run up to the Elk RIVER bridge, short
distance this side of Middletown. The
road, as far as the bridge, is in perfect con-
dition but that structure is 30 badly dam
aged that several days will be required to
repair it. However, trains will run regu-
larly along the road, commencing this after
noon, and transferring passengers and
freight over Elk River. ~"
Hundreds OF families along the bottom
haxy faH Thnan N
the land have the soil, and that alone, left
and can repair the injuries they have sus.
stained but the renters, and they are many,
have lost everything We heard OF great
many who, in the desire to accumulate a
handsome profit, invested the last dollar
they had in their summers crop, and now
it is completely destroyed.
One instance, of which we learned all the
particulars, will serve to illustrate the CON
dition of hundreds of families in the valley.
A German named Detsler last year rented a
large farm about two miles below Hamil
ton, and by dint of industry and energy he
raised handsome icrop of wheat--some
four hundred busheIs--all of which he had
stored away in sheds, ready TO be threshed
and upon which he relied eor money to bear
the expense of his summers labor, and to.
day not a grain Of it is left him. But this
was not all. lie had OH his farm one hun
dred aud fifty hogs, and many acres OF fine
corn with which to feed them but to-day
not one of the whole number of his swine
is alive, and his corn is utterly destroyed.
| leaving the unfortunate Detsler bankrupt.
But his lot is not harder than huudrsnds of
others.
Within sight of the railroad, above Ham
ilton, stood an old bridge known as "Ox.
bergers," because it led to mill owned
by man of that name. 1t has stood many
years, but was carried away by the flood
last Friday aud it was one of those which
struck the Hamilton bridge and aided in
| its destruction.
The Middletown wagdn-road bridge was
likewise carried away, and was one of the
aids in destroying the Hamilton structure.
/ 1t was heavy aud substantial work.
A large number of bridges over small
streams on both sides of tho Miami were
destroyed; and calyerts innumerable over
small branches are among the things that
were.
Tue INDIANS are troublesome on the
plains and threaten to become still more SO.