Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-08-01
Destructive Flood i'm Maryland.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE


intermission, it began at about nine o'clock
TO pour in torrents, and up to this hour
1.-TWO r. NJ has continued to fall necessarily.
That portion of the city adjacent to Jones'
Falls is inundated, and travel is entirely
suspended in that vicinity. Frederick and
Harrison streets are completely flooded, also
the Marsh Market Space. The Maryland
Institute is surrounded by a sheet of rush.
ing, foaming water, that is carrying every.
thing like hogheads, barrels, bales of hay,
ETC., with it. The floors of the stores on
the streets named are under water, and the
merchants have been compelled to remove
their goods to the upper stories.
The loss will be very heavy, but cannot
now be estimated No loss of life has yet
been reported.
BALTIMORE, July ELS p. M.-The water
commenced rising few minutes before one
o'clock, and rose at the rate of two inches
per minute, and has continued to rise up to
this hour. Calvert street is flooded to Lex
ington, within few feet of Monument
Square. North street is flooded almost its
entire length to depth of four to eight feet.
Holiday street to Fayette street is flooded,
Ford's Theatre being entirely surrounded
10y water, which is passing down Holiday
aud Baltimore streets. Gay, Frederick and
Harrison streets are entirely submerged
The water on Jones Falls is several feet
above the bridges, and it is not known
whether they have been swept away. On
many of the wharves near the Falls the wa
ter is several feet deep. A city passenger
car was swept from the track on Gay street
down Harrison street, with number of
passengers in it. The widest rumors pre-.
vail in regard to the numbers drowned,
some estimating the number at seven others
say all were saved but one, Mr.. Ward, q
printer. A large number of dray horses and
some drivers are lost. There is no commu.
nica.ion between the eastern and western
parts of the city. The water is sweeping
everything before it. There is no commu-
nicatiuu north by telegraph. The food is
the greatest every known here.
BALTIMORE, July 24--l0 o'clock p. NJ
The flood to-day subsidized as suddenly as it
arose. Shortly after Z. NJ, the water was
carried Off within the banks of Jones Falls.
AT this hour, the damage cannot be proxi-
mately estimated. but none of the estimates
place it below S3,000,0O0. Hundreds of
stores were submerged, and many hogsheads
of molasses on the wharves and sugar in the
warehouses, were entirely destroyed. a
number of buildings and stores were under.
mined and damaged.
Denmead's foundry and Bently's iron
works were partially swept away.
The gas works supplying the eastern part
of the city were submerged, and that sec
ton is without gas to night.
Some of the water mains are reported to
have been carried away.
The loss of life in the city has not been
asccrtaincd, but four persons were drowned.
Mr.. Ward, who was reported drowned, was
saved, and is well.
The trains to Washington are running,
the damage to the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road being comparatively small.
On the Northern Central road the damage
is greater, and it is reported that the trains
will not run for several days.
The Potapsco rose higher by many feet
than ever known before, and swept away all
the houses on the low streets, contiguous to
its banks, in the town, including Gambril's
celebrated FIGURING Mills, together with the
mill bridge, the county bridge, and injured
the granite cotton factory considerably. The
house of DR.. Owens, in which was his wife
and six children, was carried off and oil
drowned. Eight or ten other persons were
also drowned. Five men were seen on the
roof of the Patapsco mill when the founda-
tion had nearly given way. Five houses at
| Elysville were carried off and two or three
persons drowned. 1t was heartrending to
behold the distress of the sufferers here.
The discoveries to morrow will give us
the details of this great calamity. All who
can are rendering assistance. ! have just
learned that the Granite Mills, at EllicOtt
City, fell from the pressure of the flood, anl!
sixty of the operatives perished. The de-
struction at this place is much more terrible
than first represented. Many of those above
mentioned as lost in Granite Mills were
women.
LATER.
BALTIMORE, July 25.-The losses by the
flood yesterday will foot up several millions
of dollars. The following firms are among
the sufferers Read & Co.'S tannery, SEQ
600; Denmead &c Sons machine shop $4,000
Armstrong ~ Cos soap and candle manufac-
tory, partially destroyed; Woods, Weeks &
Co.'S sugar refinery, $4,000; Fisher Bros,
importers lose SIG, 900 in sugar and molas-
ses Bently, Larrabee e Co.'S iron foundry
gave way, and the west walls fell, causing a
heavy loss. Many private houses were more
or less damaged. Also, Wartield & Co. S
Monument Flour Mills. A large quantity
of sugar and molasses on the docks was
washed away, and many wharves were de-
str0yed. Nine bridges over Jones' Falls on
different streets were swept away.
At Ellicot City the destruction oflife and
property was very great. About thirty
houses were swept away, some of them con
tanning whole families, who were carried
with the current and drowned. Several
bodies have been recovered to day at and
near the Relay House.
The following are reported drowned at
Ellicot City:-William Patterson wife and
son; Mrs. Farren and her two children
Fanny and Emmy Duval VIM. Reese, wife,
son and daughter; the family of DR.. Owens,
and number Of Others, names not given.
The losses on property at Ellicot City are
as follows :-Grambrilrs lower Patapsco
Flour Mill was entirely swept away, and
the upper mill partially destroyed. The
Granite Cotton Mill of Ben. Deford which
cost $lG0,000 is a total ruin. Gray's large
cotton factory was also much damaged. The
Union Company's cotton mill, half mile
above Elicot City, was badly damaged and
much cotton lost. The stores OF George G
Bradley and Joseph II. Lcyster, with all
their goods, were swept away. The Avail
Ion mari and iron works, near the Relay
House, were destroyed. Several days mus
alansp bpfnra nm accnrotn estimate of thf