Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-23
SECOND EDITION.
THE ST. GEORGES RUIN.

THE ST. GEORGES RUIN.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WRECKED, VESSELS AND
THEIR CONDITION - THEIR NAMES, SITUATION,
10 oARaoEs, ARD INJURIES s--FuIL. DETAILS OF THE
DESTRUCTIVE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF Loss-
REPAIRs AND REooNsTRUcTTnN OF THE CANAL.
The locality Of the Great Storms worst re-
sults-St Georges and the Ilailfo"d bridge over
the Oanal--were again visited yesterday,by a req
resentstive of the COMMERCIAL, who obtained
the following additional information.
Atst Georges. the damage is greater even
than was reported in our edition OF yesterday.
In XII there have been eleven schooners and
eighteen barges hopeiessy wrecked, while 70
scnooners and 81 barges, tugs and one pro-
peller steamer, are stranded ana most OF tnem
more or less injured.
THE WRECKED scHooNERs.
or the schooners wrecked the worst are the
following F: The Jane @. Moshdn., an old vessel;
the Speed much better vessel; the Panama,
the Mary Washington and the Ldotntd Hopkins,
while among the barges are the Harry o.
| Trump, Hiram Mails, the Carrie, Judge Ldndts,
the Etiorddo, Hamlet Miierod, MatNe,o, Late
and EARLY, George w. Graft, Princeton and
| Mary Brady which suffered most 49,
10 understand the position and condition
stated below it is necessary to recaptulate some
| what frcm our report yesterday.
| Al St Georges the canal runs nearly East and
| West, the lower, or "Four-nile, level being on
/ the Eastern side OF the locks which are situated
/ inst at the point where the old state road
\ crosses the canal. This road rams nearly North
i aud South, and crosses q causeway some dozen
/ feet high over meadow on the north side OF
| the canal. This meadow has two branches, one
4 extending Northwardly and West of the town,
Il and the other extending Eastward along the
i btnk of the canal 1t is over the latter branch
Il tnat the eauseway il built. The meadow wan
4 separated from the canal which here forms
Il nfa acraa nv a rmDa Ikml mt average
4 ing perhaps nine feet high
1 Odite number Of vessels and barges were be-
4 low the locks, and escaped all serious damage,
except the delay which must necessarily occur
OF those above the loeB most OF the schooners,
| we're close by them, while the majority OF the
bArges were further on, in the direction OF Ches-
| apeake City.
4 was made, in the embankment between the ca
/ nal and the West Meade vs,oppo lite theibarges,
4 and simultaneously the boats began 10 go
4 through. Finally several barBes Jammed tins
opening full. In the meantime the surging OF M tne
| vessels nearer the locke, had there butted the
bank thin, and it broke near the bridge Here
the schooner Panama, which now lies total
wreck was the first vessel to go through, and she
was followed by others until Six schooners, and
| several barges had followed her. In all, seven
| scheoners and fifteen barges went through the
two openings, which in the aggregate measures
| 180 feet along the bank.
Immediately the causeway which divides the
I
State road passes slso gave way and sent a
part of the flood and more OF the craft into the
East Meadow
This filed that meadow 30 full that.the bank be-
| tween it and the canal gave way and the waters
| rushed into the lower level and hlllng that they
broke the canal bank, in two places OF great size
and several smaller ones, debouching the waters
from that level upon the meadows and
marshes between Delaware City and Port Pen n
The Canal Company expect to have force OF
200 men at work to-day, and until The da mage ia
! repaired. They hope to be able to hoAt ont all
the boats below the locks and in the canal IL )ou
n | 10 DAYS or TWO weeks. They also hope To, De
| able to send out those In the bed OF the canal
i above the locks. iE three Or four weeks.
i The money damage to the Canal Company
will exceed 800, 900 for repairs alone, and the.
will not escape from damage to the vessels
I | without a decision Of court first obtained.
Q WE REPORT THE DAMAGE TO vEssELs'
AS follows: The propeller Tuckahoe is ground
Q ed in the canal, near Summit Bridge Tw
steam tugs. owned by Messrs Brady & Co., o
| Delaware City, are also caught on the uppe
BELOW THE ST. GEORGES LOCKS,
On the level between that place and Delawar
: City. are the following, none Of which are seri
ously injured, all having escaped as explained
y above
It sehooners Robin Hood, Agnes, Repplier, Wi
9 liam Magee, and Roanoke, all Of Philadelphl
}. and generally loaded with bituminous coal tn
P. q R. R. R; No. 4s, with Ike cargo the e, ades
Shields, W. H. HARVARD, Mary Wagner
il Dover, Winnie Bradley, McWilliams,, Jr
Is | and Osceola, all loaded with coal, 9
Philadelphia; the schooners ooean blro s n WIZ Wy
more the schooners Express, with pine WOOD
= Salisbury, with lumber, and Rock with WOOD a
| of Crisheld Md. the schooner Express, OF Lau
, | raj with cross-ties ;the barges Frank MeWil
/ ~ with coal the RudOlDl New
| komet, of New Brunswck, N. j., with Goa
W All these are in the canal below the locks an
D. are not much damaged except that they ar
grounded These will be tloated out hrst'
M IN THE EAST MEADOWS AT ST. GEORGES.
.; Here there has been heavy loss, the vesse
being in some instances total wrecks, and all al
in exceedingly bad condition, owing to the di'
tapce at which most of them lie from the cana
- They are -,
This vessel is a total loss, her stem is broken OF
~, ,Ie and she is broken both lenSthwlse, and eros
.s wise her foremast is also lying over the sid
and her rigging badly damaged. She was an o |,
4 vessel and was in the coal trade, she lies at
ed point not accessible, and the condition OF h
cargo we could not ascertain, but judge that
ed is also gone.
Th- Nd loaded with tics, is stranded near Il
causeway. There was no one on board FRO
- whom we could learn the extent of her damag
but it was not great, except that she proOau
leaks considerably from being broken from h
own weight Much OF her deck load was lost.
. The barge Harry @. Trump, lies 200 yards fro
the water She is loaded with lumo er, and
high and dry,
II, The barge Clara Horner, of New York, is hi
and dry, also. She loaded with coal, a
.,., | lies about 100 yards from the canal.
isAi The barge Hiram Mills of Buffalo N. u,
: Bright captain, loaded with camel coal, is t
tai loss both of vessel and cargo. She is fail
Quilted Of everything she had in her, only d
RY broken shell deckless and sternless remainiL
the barge Flying Fish OF Philadephia load
with coal also lies high and dry near the Hiri
81 Mills.
IN THE CANAL ABOVE THE LOCKS
The barge Andrew Allison of Port Carbon viii
NE' lies high aud dry but the cargo can be save
Also the barge Carrie of Philadeiphia, Capta
Robert Tickner This vessel is broken in two a
has her cabin half full of water the achool
Layiuia Hopkins, of Yorktown Va, with Gro
ties has hole punched in her side and will L
lie badly as soon as the water comes up around
i. again the sch ooner Mary Mcdaniel of O.
field lies next loaded with wood. She has 8