Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-25
TIVE FLOOD At ELLtCorr CITY.
fhty fers"ns Drowned rwrnty-ei.ht
Houses WASHED Ava

De Hts says.rhe great flood IN the Pa
apsco river ~ flitcot ttty ws< uuprecs dent
sna 10y trncilNe OF liyes snd properly
and Howard county sides Of the river has e@eg1
cut on ey the raging torrent and - rxnx
bridges have been deStroyed tia, railway .ravrt
has boen suspended. Within the rccollccuo.
of the Oldest inhsbitsuts the rise OF v-ater ~.
never reached within ten feet Of Whist AZ did to-
csy.
GambriIl's lower Paiapsco -four mil h,S
en- entirely swept away. aud with n tpra
inen-one named VIM. Stcel sud the other =
Snyder. Mr.. St@el was Afterwards seen ciiaS-
ing TO q log, and a. h. Ssid was saved Gam
brilI's upper mill HIS b~en partially DESTROYED.
The extensive grsple cotton mill OF Beniamin
Oxford. which - said to have cost sI60.i vi l.
total rum. In IL Mr. Mctauley, a night watch
man, lost has life. Gray's large grsnite couO..
factory has been Considerably dSmaged The
house OF Mr.. E"one, the superintendent Of he
works, snd The gardeners house are gone, but
their i9milisS were say.d.
The entire row of houses between the torn
PIKE bridge sud the PattrSco Mills are aii
swept away Dr. z. II. Ovi ig's new house
was forced by the water across tee alley which
divides ~ from Tsimer's row and b,s yffa ana
slN Children climbed 10 the roof OF Mr. wm
Fountains dwelling, there only 10 await de-
s,Tncu, q. In tew minutes the mood carried
on he house Of Mr.. fouptsin, who IL the head
miller at Gsmbri,l's Mill, himself. wife and
daughter. the wife aud six children OF Ilr
Owings. who had there sought prote ction. aud
four colored servants. Mr.. VIM. Parlrtdge =
mechanic, sixty years old, with his wife and
graud-daughter are lost. Among Others whom
he cruel wa ers have carried AWAY with Their
house. are william Patterson. " lie aud son.
Mrs. Farrer sud her Two rrard-chiIdren, Fan
ME and Emma Duysil; VIM. Reese, a wheel.
Wright, vile, son sDd dssghter. DR.. Osipcs
was Gu the opposire side OF the river ait.r his
house bad gone, wss told has family was in the
adjoining one, and. standing there, saw 10 90
driven 90 destruction, urahle - give tue least
assistance. He hiss only two cbildrea lelt. who
We're away from home. The storcs Of q ,oree
George L. Bradley and Joseph III. Ieysher
with all their goods, are gone. Mr.. Lev sber
succeeded in saving bis books
TIE body of q lsdy was rescued from the wa
Ter al lllchcsler. She was not quite dead. ard
every ehcrf made 20 revive her, bat very liitle
honrs OF Per recovery were enterlafnPd. The
large railroad hr ige AZ lllchester g. an entire
wreck; AND in tact all TIE bridges over tn4
Patapsco as ar IS the Relay House are de-
Sroyed.
The Avalon Nail ard Iron Works, near ina
Relay House, have beer swept away. No lives
are sunrO-Cd 20 have bepa lost The Union
Company cotton mill, hale mile above Ella
colt City, is sand 10 have been very b div dam
eyed srd much cotton lost Tiber creek. which
hfs been generally very high IN time OF a fiaof
Wa, on ms occasion, not much swollen.
The telegraph wirgs are broken. aud the
trsIE which me rom Baltimore this morn
ing Was kept az EliiNoit civ al day some
idea OF The immense force II the waf'T .nsy -
formed lrom T's rapidly washing sway The
walls OF TIRE Grsni'e Mills, part CT which Were
twenty zee, 'fick