Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-30
THE FLOOD I'M THE PArAPsco.

Interesting Pareteulars-A Scene Of Rain
Damage West Of EIlicstt City-Mr. J.
G: G. Kennedy, Of this City, q sufferer
The Damage at Eiysville-At Sykesville
-Destructfen Of Railroad Bridges and
Telegraph Lines-Damage to Crops, &c.
Correspondence Of the Star.l
.N1AR SYKEevILLE, ND, July %.
Edifcr Sesr:-The entire valley Of the Pataps.
co presents one scene Of ruin. Immense struc-
lures OF granite, used for mauufs curing pur.
poses, have melted away before the torrent
Dwellings, shops, barns, fences, trees, and
gardens have been carried away By the flood,
and many lives have been sacrificed. The de.
siruetion~ as-tar- west as Ellicott's Mills, Cor
city.) tas been described in the papers. The
first place on the railroad west, is the old
Fountainyale place, occupied by the family Of
MT. J. q. @. kennedy, Of washington, as a
summer residence. An immense oak tree,
which struck the house twelve feet from the
ground, carried away the upper and lower
CONSIDERABLY. fhe shruSbery IS covered with
several feet Of sand, and the water carried of
2lcOC feet Of lumber and IL tons OF bone fer
hlizers. All crops and fen ces on the low ground
are swept on, aud in many places the soil it,
self. More than thousand beautiful trees are
torn mp by the roots. Mr.. Kennedy left WASH
Ipgton the morning after the flood, unconscious
of Its occurrence until he arrived at the Relay,
where be witnessed some of ats effects, and
heard exas gerated rumors Of its ravages. After
walk Of eight miles, over rocks and stones,
the railway track being mostly destroyed. he
their roof until the water reached the house,
when, in terrible rain. they fed TO the high
ground. The house is q century old, and was
never before surrounded by water. The river
filled the lower story and reached q height of
four feet IN that above-spilling and mixing
hings generally, and causing considerable loss.
AT Elysville the loss is dreadful. 0arey's fine
throe.story brick house is q ruin, the large back
Dull0lnL swept entirolv awav- Silver. rOStlv
furniture, carriages, buggies, china and glass
ware; contents of cotton factory and store:
barn, well filled; large stock Of goods, tenant
houses, two carriages, buggy, carts, and wa
CONS destroyed, and beautiful grounds ruined;
entire loss, S20OO03. At Sykesville, hotel
and store washed entirely away. Tyson's
of. All Of the railroad bridges for twenty
miles gone, aud not a section OF the road
uninjured. Houses swept off at every point on
the tn stream, and every growing thing torn out
family Of Mr.. Carey were saved by escaping
on drift wood into trees. On the little Patux-
emit the destruction OF crops is immense. Mr..
Brozena. who purchased a part OF the Carol
Manor, for SIPS, 900, had more than 300 acres of
crops submerged. The destruction Of proper.
ty in all this region is terrific, and many fami-
lies lost houses, clothing and provisions In ad-
ditlon to their crops. Many Of the roads are
quite impossible, and every bridge for 20 miles
on the Patapsco take n away. There was not
one telegraph pole left standing from Wood.
SUCK 10 EiIlcOtt Clty NO lives, as far as
known, were lost west Of Ellicott City, but the
value of buildings. crops, fences, machinery,
railroads, telegraph lines, &c, &c, Is incaicu-
liable. No such flood, nor anything approx
mating 1t has ever occurred since the settlement
Of the country. Great strips of old forest trees
are swept clean, and the line Of the railroad
9nd rlyer presents remarkable scene of de-
struction. Notwithstanding the great energy
of Mr.. Garrett it will take several months to
restore the railrosd to its recent condition In
addition to the losses the depreciation of prop
erty has b en- such that it will require years to
overcome it. We are endeavoring to restore a
temporary telegraphic communication along
the line of the railroad, and to do we attach to
trees, fence rails. and any object that will keep
the wires from the ground. OPERATOR.