Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-03-25

high that the pig sly at one END is on
the same elevation with the chimney
pot coming out of the roof OF the
dwelling. Its situation makes it pecu-
liarly liable to floods. The main street
to day is running river and is ira
versed almost from end to end by
boats. Lumber yards, saw mills, DC,
crowd the water trent. There to-day
are all more or less damaged, the
mills being flooded and the lumber piles
knocked to pieces. The telegraph
operators have been driven from theil
instruments, the postoffice is swampeo
the railroad broken up and the depot
flooded, while churches, dwellings and
all other structures have more or less
water on the ground floors.
The water continued to rise all night
with unprecedented rapidity, and few
if any persons but young children slep'
any The depth Of water this morning
has never before been witnessed. =
| Nearly the whole town was submerged
to the depth Of from FIVE to fifteen Tee,
with water and ice rushing like {
torrent through the main street. Fol
several hours it looked as though scarce
a vestige of the town would be left.
Many persons who thought they were
entirely out of danger had to be taker
from the upper stories and roofs Of
their dwellings, in boats. This was
going on all night. There were many
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escapes from drowning Fortunately
however, there were no lives lost, but
the destruction of property is very
great.
There are four or five hundred honses
in Port Deposit and there are not fifty
out of water. Of the larger dwellings,
that of J. Tome is most conspicuous
and by far the most costly. The
dwelling is a massive stone structure,
surrounded by a garden running back
to the wall OF rock hills in the rear
The garden is flooded, the fountain is
filed with crushed ice, and the cellar
is full of water. OF the four or five
churches the Catholic Church seems to
have sustained the least damage. The
Methodist Tome Memorial Church,
costing 100000, is surrounded by water
and the basement floor is flooded A
boat was tied up at the parsonage door
near by, and the rector Of the
Protestant Episcopal church, at the
other end of town, will be obliged TO
visit his sanctuary next Sunday by the
aid of oalsmen, unless the waters 90
down. The pastors and fiocks of all
the other churches will have to do
/ likewise. In the centre of the town,
near the Methodist church, the remains
of some out houses and carriages are
piled up in the middle Of the street.
The stores at Rock Run reported so
badly damaged are those of Hugh A.
Thompson, Lyman Mauldin and
Coulson g. Tosh. Rock Run bridge
was also washed away. Walter Pax
tons blacksmith and wheelwright shop
was swept away.
The accounts from Columbia, Harris
burg, Wilkesbarre, Marietta, and other
points are full of interest, exhibiting all
the remarkable freaks and features of
the flood in their own variety. with the
resulting damage and Inconvenience
The railroads intercepted by the foods
both of the Susquehanna and Delaware
are lined at many places with men car
rying away ice and wrecks, rebuilding
bridges and reballasting tracks. Our
dispatches are as follows:
THE SITUATION AT coLUMBIA-DAMAGE TO
BRIDGES, RAILROADS, &c.
COLUMBIA, Pa, March 19.-The
Susquehanna is nearly clear of ice this
evening. The mill-oon1 of F. s. Betz
was completely torn out all, his RATS
lost His loss is estimated at $4,000
The bridge was closed this morning for
passage Of trains and heavy wagons, as
it was deemed unsafe. One span ofthe
bridge on the York county shore was
badly injured, and the chords knocked
from under several others and carried
off. Six or eight piers have also been
injured. but to what extent cannot be
told until the water lowers.
Between the tunnel and Collins sta
ton the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny have at least nine or ten canal boats
on their tracks, and tons and tons of
old rubbish, outhouses, &c. The ice is
piled from five to fifteen feet on the
tracks. They have very large force
OF hands cleaning the tracks, but it will
take several days before trains can pass
as great part of their tracks have been
turned over. The abutment of the
Tidewater Canal Company at Wrights>
vile is badly injured, and the basin
gorged full of ice, canal boats and logs
from bridge to dam. The winding
bridge was raised off its abutments and
carried about three hundred yards by
the ice and landed on the BERN bank of
the canal, with one end lay ing over a
canal boat.
MARIETTA, Pa, March 19-It is inn
possible to imagine the scene presented
here now, caused by the ice gorge yes
terday. Nothing to compare with it
has ever occurred in this section. For
mile along Front street the immense
cakes of ice are piled from ten to forty
feet high, filing the canal and covering
the railroad track, and in many places
tearing out and bending the rails. Sew
eral canal boats are laying in awkward
shape across the railroad track, and
were only prevented from demolishing
houses by large trees that were firm
enough to stop them.
About twenty thousand dollars worth
of RATS and lumber are carried
way. Miller & Musser's steam saw
mill is completely demolished. There is
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