Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-16
TIE LATE STORM.

n.nInw TN THE cot-gTRY ROUND ABOUT WHINING
TON wIBEsPREAD DEvAsTATIoN - MILL DAMS
BROKEN, oULvERrs WASHED OUT, THE CANAL
INJURED, ONE PERSON DROWNED.
Our exchanges from down the State bring US
tbe particulars Of the casualties which have been
wrought by the late storms. The destruction
seems to have been even greater below US than
here. and mills have suffered severely. The full
amount Of the damage we are unable to esti-
mate, and willingly shrink from the undertaking.
Tho results have been serious, howe YER, az the
following review will show:
ABOUT MIDDLETowE.
The dam of Mr.. T. @. Murphey's mill was
badly broken in three places. The foun-
dstion wall OF his grist mill was undermined and
partly washed out, placing the mill in imminent
danger of total destruction, but, fortunately, by
the most arduous labor, the catastrophe was
ayerted. The amount Of damage is estimated
at nearly $1,000.
Mr.. AIlston Harman's dam was badly broken
and much damage done. necessitatng the stop
ping of the mill for time.
paired since the disaster to it last winter, this
vicinity is rendered nearly mill-less by these late
accidents, Messrs. Drummonds IL Bartons Mills
being the only ones left
DELAWARE CITY AND TIE CANAL.
noticeable feature of the storm at Della
ware City, on Tuesday night, was the binding
brilliancy of the lightning, and the sharp, quick
defamation of the thunder. Rain fell in torrents
| and for awhile the streets were flooded. In the
aountry much damage was done to roads, Dridg-
| as. culyerts, fencing, cornfelds, DO.
The Chesapeake and Delaware canal has sew
| eral breaks in the bank, between Delaware City
| and st. Georges, which will require week OF
| ten days to repair them The Pennsylvsnia and
/ Delaware railroad has washed away in several
plaoes which prevented the running OF trains
| for a few days. Our newark letter htatsh tha
| these are now all right.
IN CECIL COUNTY.
| Nearly all the mill dams and mill races on th'
creeks, in the neighborhood of Elkton. wer'
damaged more or less. Mr.. Baldwin's race wa
broken in two places and the head gates washe'
| ont in the aggregate considerable damage be
i ing DONE Mr.. Brewster's and MIR. Scotts mill
/ above. we're injured in the same manner, Mr.
BIS dam being conslderably dsmaged IN
creek rose at Mr.. Baldwins factory, twelve zee
ia one hour and fears were entertained for awhli
| that the bridge across the creek at that place
| would be carried away. The bridge at Mitchell
mill at the east end Of Elkton, was also elghtt
injured. The dam at Westamwen Iron WORKS
on the Big Elk, above Elkton, sustained som
damage by washing away OF the earth irol
about one Of the piers.
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Port Deposit was again partially submerged
Though not from the river, this time. Tine waite
raa in torrents down the declivities, flooding th
| streeta and sweeping away all within its reach.
nan Of 40 hogs belonging to Jesse Stebbing wa
| emptied in time only to save the porkers, bu
!. | another partv was less fortunate. His pig pc
was swept out into the river and landed on %
fat, but the hogs escaped. The walls along u
Al dam ntFaad QndEfe
in. Ia the rear of Jos. B. Pugh's residence
small rivulet runs down the bill and this swole
with the rain, had overiowed its banks, bur
open the back door Of the house and was pourlr
a stream through the hall and out at the froi
| door. large enough to run the largest mill IN u
State. The fence was carried into the street al
| a new bav window, partly built, had its found
lion entirely demolished, and the sidewalk v
washed away for some 20 or 80 yards. In adj
tion to this the yard in the rear OF the house, W
filled several feet deep .Wlth lInIhehse Eooh
stone and earth.
SAD DROWNING CASE NEAR oRUMPToN.
On Thursday morning, Miss Emma Lync
daughter of Clinton Lynch, Esq, of Kent cou
ty. Md, accompanied by Mrs. Reese, wife
William Reese, of Chesapeake City: was retuI
ing home from visit to Mr.. Perry Lynch's, a
in attempting to cross a small stream callt
| Godwin's rum near MallAlieu's Woolen mill.
Queen Annes county, which was greatly swoli
by the recent rains. her horse was swept on
fact by the force of the current; the carria
unset and both ladies' were precipitated into Il
10 water. Miss Lynch clung to the carriage wnl
had caught against some distractions, unit
: boat could be obtained from Crumpton. m
f. and a half distant, with which she was rescu
from her perilous and unpleasant position, hi
: ING been in the water an hour and thirty minut
but her companion went down with the cure
j. and was drowned. The horse was also drown'
n AN rNcIrENT IN THE WASHED AWAY cULvERr
~ THE p. W, b.
I The Elkton Democrat says that locomot
AlN came near being precipitated into the bre'
caused by the washing out of the Christii
Culyert, on tho P. W. Il B. r. r. An engin
upon an engine moving slowly along withou
train had detected the crumbling culvert
. knowing that a freight train north was due Ab
that time, hurried his fireman, youth fl
Hayre de Grace over the remains OF the
vert, to signal the approaching freight tri
Away ran the boy with ALL his speed, and M
ing the train he began to wave his improvit
aienAl But darkness was gathering thicl
the rain falling with binding intensity and
engineer of the train could not zee the signal
he was about psssing the DSy %bistI;n0 Mn 'nen
brakes" he immediaty reversed his engine, 4
did everything possible to stop before reach
the dead fall, but it was evident to
that the engine would not stop before
was on the bridge, and JUST Ss ne spPIoache
he stepped off. Sure enough the engine,
witbstanding it's backward motion, was pus
to the bridge and on it, and the engineer saw
struggling iron horse begin TO sink slowly dc
nth Al least two feet down it sunk the crumb
n track, and then as il with superhuman O.
= and consciousness Of peril, it gave the tral
sk hard knock back and, to the amazement OF
" engineer, began to recede from the chasm.
watched it moment doubling his senses,
finding that it would escape, he mounted it .
> and backed the train to Elkton, having \
probably the narrowest escape In the histol
railroading from a total wreck.
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