The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-08-07

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The heavy f&Ias kssk have prevailed
throughout The WOES hiring the last two Or
three weeks have eatscd an extraordinary loss
ofproperty, and there are great approximations
that the country viii be swept BY disease after
The waters snbside
At Chilicothe, Ohio, ON Tuesday, the canal
broke below the city, and 5000 bushels Of
wheat were swept into the river. Al Cincin
matt, the lower stories of the houses along
Water street were flooded, and the river was
still rising, The gas works at Athens, Ohio,
were inundated. and the city was compelled to
use candles. No trains arrived since Satur.
day. In Indiana, the food in the Wabash
river Is the highest ever known. The Wabash
and Erie canal between Lafayette and Fort
Wayne is broken ia hundred places In
West Virginia the town of Pennington i;
almost submerged, and there has been great
destruction Of property between Wheeling and
| Grafton, on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Four bridges on the Parkesbur.
branch of that railroad have been destroyed
/ Ii is estimated that Si00,O0a worth of logs
barrels, &c. have been swept away by the foo,
at New Mar,insyillc. The loss BY the recen
inundations in Central Illinois is estimated n
! Sl,00O,00
The flood in the Ohio River aud its trbu
taries went ON increasing ON Wednesday. A
Marietta, CincinattI, Louisville and Evansville
the water rose above the danger line Tn
cellars and the first floors OF the buildings il
the lower portion Of Cincinnati were iloode,
ut night, the river At 6 y, M. having over 5
feet OF water in the channel In the Sciot
Valley the flood is greatest ever known at thi
season Of the year, and the loss to the farmer
there is estimated AZ S5OO,0OO
} The Mississippi river ct Memphis r0s
, Wednesday night to within u inches of tn
danger line, which covers the country west
ward to Madison, Arkansas, distance q
I forty miles. The river was subsiding at S,
: LOUIS, but apprehensions were caused bysth
r reports from the Ohio Valley. A creyass
A has opened at De Soto Front, Mississippi, ,
3 miles below Memphis, The corn in the sub
y merged fields is said to be souring and emit
r ting u terrific stencil,
Fearful floods are reported from Mon
J mouthshire, England, through the bursting O
j a reservoir supply ing the canal, The tow
S OF Usk was inundated, and the main thor
5 onghiare in Monmouth rendered impossible
I From Ross, Hereford and Caerleon similn
1 distressing reports were sent. The rainfall
Q In Bristol and the neighbOrhood within sin
BY hh1 hAh hkhN EthCutu lut Quuhlllh VI wv
and a half inches. Floods also prevaile,
throughout the West fEngland The From,
5 river, which runs through Bristol, rose min,
E feet above the ordinary level, and thousand
r OF acres of land alon its banks through Glou
! cestershire to the Severn were inundated. In
some instances, cattle and sheep were sweep
away, and in many others they were rescue,
only with considerable difficulty. Business
was entirely dispensed with in the town o
Frome, the streets being flooded so deem tina
they had to be crossed in boats Fields O
new mown hay were swept away or spoiled
cattle being driven from the pastures, A wal
ninety feet long, which enclosed reservoir
was forced out. the water rushing with terri
Bile force over the adjacent lands, flooding
many houses and washing away cattle anC
trees. Scarcely field OF corn is left standing
in the west Of England, the heavy rains hav
ing beaten the crops down The whole o
Baptist Mills, low lying part of Bristol, wai
under water, and hundreds Of people wert
living in the upper part of the houses, food
l being taken to them in boats and landed in al
t the upper windows, Thirteen lives are re
| ported to have been lost.
water-spout deluged Karnin, Rhenish
Prussia, carrying away several houses and
drowning thirteen persons. Disastrous food
have occurred in India