The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. s. The heavy rain of
Sunday damaged property to a considerable ex-
tent in this city and the surrounding country,
particularly near water-courses. The Northern
railroad train due at daylight arrived at 9 A. NJ.
The rain was unprecedented for its violence.
The canal banks were overllowed, and the lower
stories of houses adjacent flooded. The foot
bridges over the canal and elsewhere in the city
were washed away, and several new houses
damaged owing to undermining by the water.
The sewers were also I'M ured, and in several
cases the ground caved in. Phe effects of the
storm are seen in all directions. About midnight
the whole reserve of the Seventh precinct was
called out to go to the assistance of families in
Purdy's court, near Pennsylvania avenue and
First street, the water having overfowed into
the court, and to rescue some of the women aud
children the officers were obliged to wade up to
their necks. The families were carried to places
of safety and in one or two instances the re-
moval was extremely hazardous
None of the houses were lloated off, but some
few articles of furniture were carried away in
the flood. The shanties bordering on the Tiber
back of the railroad station, were overfown, put
the inmates, mostly colored people, got away
with their furniture. Three collins were washed
down the Tiber, and lodged near Adams Ex-
press Office, opposite the station, which pro-
badly were washed away from some burial
place.
The storm in Georgetown was heavy, and the
damage to property considerable The bridges
over Kock creek were swept away, also fences,
frame shanties, and everything of q floating
nature on its banks. The limekilns were en-
tirely submerged The proprietOrs lost large
quantities of lime. The buildings at one of the
kilns caught fire from the Stacked lime.
The canal company's mud machine, and the
machine belonging to the Government, were
swept down the creek and over the dam into the
river. A large iron boiler which was on the
scow belonging to the foundry was washed some
distance down, and passing under the lower end
of X street bridge, struck the iron stringer on
the north side, and bent it nwards some inches.
1t took away about fifteen feet of the bricks and
railing on the wharf used by the Maryland
Mining Company. This morning colored man,
sexton at Christ Church, Georgetown, while en-
gagged in catching drift-wOod at the paper mill
bridge, accidentally fell in and was swept down
the current There was much damage in George
town, owing to the rise in the Potomac river.
Merchants on Water street to-day removed
their goods out of the reach of the water in
case the flood from the upper Potomac should
be heavy.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal broke, Just
above the cabin of John Calvert, and the steam
packet that started up this morning was obliged
| to return to Georgetown.
The steamer Pioneer. Captain Cathcart, ran
| ashore above the aqueduct bridge and is leaking
| badly. There is a coal boat running on the
| Philadelphia line. .
Badensburg was again inundated last night
the Eastern branch rising higher than ever before
| known, and in some parts of the burg the upper
stories of houses were flooded and bridges i'm
passable. The New York trains due here at an
early hour did not arrive until nine o'clock A.
NJ, in consequence of few feet of the track of
the road near the Gunpowder bridge having been
washed away, and detention in Baltimore, be-
cause of the Pratt street bridge being thought
unsafe. The engineer discovered the gap near
Gunpowder just in time to prevent serious ac-
cident, and the damage was soon repaired.