The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-06

railroad bridges were undermined and
carried away on Saturday night.
A new wharf, the name Of which we
were unable to learn, gave way and
went down the river, carrying with it a
schooner. y ; .
About O'Clock yesterday afternoon
boat ferrying on Main street between
Hamilton's hat store and McPhail's drug
store, and containing five colored per-
sons, two of whom were females, wa7
upset, and the contents were spilled
in the water four feet deep. Nobody
was drowned.
We had to do without ice yesterday,
the ice'hcuses being submerged on Sa-
turday. It was q great privntion 10
others beeides Sons OF Temperance.
All the floor Of the York River freight
shed was raised by water. The track
was covered to depth of foot or more
in the tunnel near Pine and Main streets,
and couple of engines and some cars
were not gotten out of town in time to
avoid being flooded.
On Saturday evening our streets IN the
vicinity of the food and Libby's and
Gambie's Hiil were thronged with sight
seers. It was sight worth seeing, and
few who saw it will ever forget it,
At o'clock yesterday afternoon the
water had fallen from around the York
River depot, so as to allow them to clean
up, and we suppose the trains will leave
to-day ns usual. The water ut that time
was still all along the dock on some cross
streets nearly up to Cary street.
TIE TIDE REcEDEs..
The water was ut its heightat 10 o'clock
on Saturday night. There was no per-
ceptible rise after that hour, and at
abont midnight there were mary evil
denccs of fall. It continued to decline
during the night, and at 10 o'clock in the
morning had fallen four feet. At noon,
the water was about as high rs it was at
the snmo time on Saturday. Thereafter,
the fall was very rapid. and last night
vehicles could pass without any difficult
ty, and pedestrians could wade anywhere
on the parts of Main and Franklin
streets that had been flooded. The river
was not entirely confined to it's limits,
and was indeed higher than it is in an
ordinary fresh.
THE LOSSES.
AS tho tide receded, our reporters
were enabled to obtain more details ms
to the loss sustained by business houses,
but even the losers we're not prepared to
give any reliable estimates Of their da-
images.
MANCHESTER.
On the Manchester side of the James,
the ravnges of the flood have been pro.
portionatcly disastrous. Early Saturday
morning, it became evident that a most
serious fresh was to be apprehendcd, and
preparations were made at all the manu-.
featuring establishments to remove nl
that was perishable or movable. Crowd:
gathered around Mayo's aad the Dan.
vile bridges and lined the banks, watch.
ing the fell destroyer. About lOl5 q.
m., portion of the Southern division
Of Mayo's bridge was carried away, and
abont an hour after, gallantly breasting
| tho storm, the remainder was forced to
succumh. Everything on Sharp's and
Talbott's islands were swept away, and
Belcher's narrowly escaped.
| HOUSES UNDER WATER.
| Later in the day the water continued
rising rapidly, and soon that part of the
town known as the "Lower Bowery"-
all Tint portion North of Third and East
OF Hull streets-was deluged, in some
places up to the second stories of the
dwelling. The inhabitants. as we'll as
those i'll Marks Field, around the neigh
borhood of the Cool Spring, were max.
ing precipitate flight, after moving wha,
furniture they could to the upper por
tions of the houses. The cottages were
secured ms we'll rs possible, and left to
the mercy of the dcvouring element
A wagon engaged in moving Mr.. r
Puryear was caught in the flood, and the
horses only saved by cutting them loose
and leaving the wagon and goods. A
ferry, with headquarters ut Third anG
Hull streets, conveyed the people and
some few necessary articles to places ot
safety.
LOSSES OF THE FACTORIES.
At the bucket factory of Allen & Co.
the destruction was fenrful-a large
quantity of stock, buckets. &C., being
swept away. A new frame building
erected to accommodate their increasing
trade, was turned over and completely
wreckd. Their damage cannot be esti
mated.
The foundry of Bard's heirs, ut the
other end cf the Manchester Canal, was
also considerably damaged. They were
probably the next heaviest sufferers
losing patterns aud stock, in addition tc
the great damage to machinery.