Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-23
WILMINGTON DEL SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1878.

With wood, is hlgh ana ury, Just hpoNe tho A"1hn'
The schooner America, from TappshAnnock, Va,
with cross-ties is high and dry Just above the
White. The schooner W. Il 3, Coeten. OF Orls-
field, is high and dry, just above the last tWo'
These three have suffered no other damage than
being stranded.
IN THE UPPER BREAoE,
Are three bafges, which choke it up. They are
the Mary Brady; OF Phiiadephia, win oosi, S.nls
barge il total loss the cargo may be saved
per laps y the Geo b. Burritt, OF New YORK, va
a bad condition and position she is loaded with
coal y and the A. O. Condre, which also is load
ed with coal, and is In very bad conoltion.
IN THE WEST MEADOW.
Lie the schoonsrs Mary Washington Of Balti-
more with sross,ties. from the Rappannook river
to Philadelphia. She was not insured, and is
badly damaged. The Capt. thinks that il the
water is let in upon the meadow again she may
possibly be fioated out She is split up herstem.
She lies just back of the PresbyteriAn Church.
about 600 yards from the Canal, To hoat her and
ali that are more than 800 yards fromthe Canal
will require the water to be raised into the Gel
lars, and up to the street OF the town.,
The Speed il par excellence 'the" wteck. Dur
ing the flood she was on her beam end, and her
tOI mast rigging is full of grass and weeds
scraped up while she was floating in from the
canal, She lies about 400 yards from the canal
Her decsis split from the hull clear around. her
buIwarks are gone and she is torn up generally.
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and was loaded with cross-ties and bound from
Nom'ni Cliff to Philadelphia.
The schooner Panama is nearly as bad as the
Speed; she halls from Baltimore, also, and had
crossties, she is on her beam ends bulwarks
torn off, and is washed about the bottom. She
was bound from the Rappahanhock to Philada.
The Alice F., of Millville N. j., with wood from
Chesapeake City to Millvile is high and dry 600
yards from the canal.
1he barge Il. Nelson Grier, from Liverpool,
NJ n ...ll- lsaua ali al
The barge Hamlet Of New York is total loss
being split from stem to stern part OF the car
go 1ldy be saved perhaps.
The schooner Annie Il Ann. OF Morristown, is
out of the canal. and badly damaged.
The barge Eldorado OF Hoopers Island, Md,
with crossties is stranded, 800 yards, from the
| canal.
NEAR THE UPPER BREACH
in the West Meadow, the following barges are
| out OF the canal, loaded with coal;
The Mathews, of New York, is broken in two,
/ and is high and dry.
The Late and EARLY, Of schuylkill Haven her
i stern is broken in, and she Ia high aud dry.
The Geo. W. Graft, of PhiAdelphia, is stove
i in on both sides, and is high and dry.
The Henry Deibert, of Landingdale, Pa, IL II
good .ndition, but high and dry.
The Mary Josephine, OF Port Carbon. Pa, is
hanging by'her ends and it is feared must break
The Lady Loretto, also of Port Carbon, VIM
Buckley owner, is high and dry, but otherwise ii
good condition.
in two. .
The E. W. McKesver. of Syracuse, N Y, il
in good condition, except high and dry.
ABOVE.
A mile or so above St. Georges, barge
loaded with pig iron, which we understood wal
another McWilliams, is in meadow high AM
dry.
wise in good condition.
LOSS OF LIFE.
1t is probable that at least one man wal
drowned About 800 yards below the locks Capt
Bowdle of the Ocean Bird was leshiDg over hi
taffrail and saw the dead body OF a man foa
past his vessel. IL was going very fast but b
was certain that it was . dAaa body although h
could not stop it.
THE DAMAGES.
Il is impos So ible to estimate the damage
present and pro spective to the Canal and othe
parties by reason of the breaches here. S
Georges people think about 81 ,000, 600. We al
inclined 10 think this pretty liberal and woul
: not set it at more than half that sum, exclusiV
of prospective earnings, which might perhap
+ be $50, 900 or $50 900 more.
The damage by reason of the break in the raj
| road is really more serious than anything elst
> | amounting to about 100000 day.
However this may be, the calamity IL unprec'
dented in the history Of this peninsula.
RRPAIRa.
Steam dredges are at work at the deep cut, Al
: work both on canal and railroad is being pusht
, ahead vigorously.
RATS.
:; There was large quantity Of lumber in Il
= canal, which collected at st. Georges. 1t cove
> eight or ten acres, in ALL
!; Nm. S. B. Barnum, of Baltimore, and Messr
IF.A. ~ G. Churchman, Of this city, own d
| most of the lumber; the former having eleve
and the latter forty-eight RATS.
i AN INDIVIDUAL LOSS.
Mr.. Mcmahon, of Baltimore, loses $35, 900
his barges, as he new estimates.
AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
i All this damage occurred in less time than
Q takes to read about it, and the scene must ha
been awfully grand. The crashing Of the til
bers, the cries for help, and the neglected resS
I 90 ,nar in daupar- -DraVar-Want IN. ago.