The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-20
SPRING FLOODS.
Further Particulars of the Damag eS
Along the Susquehanna and Delaware.

PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, March 19-The food
here is fearful The water is from 5 to Is feet
deep in the streets. Nothing like 1t was ever
seen here before. Nearly the whole town is
flooded and there is great destruction of prop
erty. Fortunately no lives have been lost so
far. The railroad depot is full of water as we'll
as the telegraph office. which was abandoned
last night In a boat The operator continues
the service from his house.
BALTIMORE, March 19.-At Havre de Grace
the ice has gorged about five miles below the
town. The wharveS there are all flooded and
whole piles of lumber have been swept from
them, which large number of men are en-
gagged in saving. The street next to the river,
above the bridge is completely blocked with
ice wood and lumber. The water is about ten
inches deep in the street, but is falling slowly
The canal tow path at the upper end of the
town is covered with ice. The ice is at present
stationary. There is no communication with
Port Deposit by telegraph from here.
HARRISBURG, March ia telegraph man
who returned here from cambridge at an early
hour this morning reports great amount of
damage done by the Ice and high water yester-
day in that vicinity. A warehouse containing
5000 bushels of corn was swept away, the depot
forced across the track on a hill, the telegraph
Office completely demOlish ed, four canal boats
and frame house forced on the track, and six
or seven badly injured. The track from Col
Inns station to Chickies is covered with from
eight to ten feet eft ice in many places for a
distance of mile or more, and telegraph lines
destroyed for eight or ten miles.
A family on an island above cambridge was
forced to the roof of their residence, the water
having risen to the second story. They remain
ed on the roof until the water receded and
were saved. On another island the family
took TO the barn for safety, fearing the house
would move. The barn was forced for dis
lance of 100 yards or more. The family were
rescued. 1t is reported that q man who at
tempted to go to the rescue of the latter family
was carried down the river by the ice and has
not been heard from since.
MARIETTA, Pa. e.)-It is impossible to
imagine the scene presented here now caused
by the ice gorge yesterday. Nothing to COM
pare with it has ever occurred in this section.
For mile along Front street immense cakes
of ice piled from 10 to 40 feet high, filling
the canal and covering the Il r. track, and in
many places tearing out and bending the rails
Several canal boats are lying in an awkward
shape across the r. r. track, and were only
prevented from demolishing houses by
large trees firm enough to stop them
About 600 worth of RATS and lumber were
carried away. Miller & Mussers' steam saw
mill were demolished. Great damage was done
to houses by the water filling the first floor and
cellars. 1t is estimated it will take 1000 men
three to five days to clear the railroad tracks.
All trains are running regularly via Mount Joy
Branch. Water was several feet higher than
in the flood of '65.
NEW YORK, March ia Port Jervis special
says that the Germantown fatslare still cover
ed with water several feet deep, which is now
frozen two inches thick. There is no commu-
nication with the place by road, as every ave-
nue leading there is buried beneath twenty
feet of ice. The inhabitants have been busy
all day trying to bring some order out OF the
chaos that surrounded them. About fifty
houses are entirely ruined, and the damage to
all is great. A large number of families are
homeless and others depended on friends or
the public for at least temporary support.
meeting of the village trustees is to be held to-
night to adopt measures to aid the people in
the f1ooced districts in repairing their property
and clearing away the ice.