The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-02-21
The Flood Again.

A flood report is almost weekly ne
cessity nowadays these destroyers of
public and private property follow so
close upon ono another. Before the dam
age dose by the previous one, the flood
OF last Monday came down upon u.s. The
fires at the gas works which had been
e1tinguished by the overflow Of a week
previous, had hardly been brought up to
working heat when this one came and
watered them out again. The mere mat
ter of putting out = fire appears to be a
small thing to those unacquainted with
the working of the gas making machinery
but to the owners and operators it is a
very serious affair. The fires once out
and the retorts cooled, two or three days
OF hot fire are required to heat them up
again to the gas making point, and a
week Or more elapses before tho most
prominent marks of the flood are oblit-
Grated. The gorge Of ice at the iron
bridge at the foot of Bridge street was
sight we'll worth seeing. The neighbour
hood looked like scene in the arctic re-
gion. The ice had wedged fast in the
| creek between Tuites and Barrolls wharf
forming nucleus upon which the vast
field following piled. AS it came down
and struck tho barrier formed by the
gorge it spread out laterally on both sides
and sweeping everything before it, piled
up its glistening blocks in immense heaps.
A sloop belonging to Capt John David.
son which WAS lying on the north side of
the creek. was picked up upon the NOV
ing mass Of ice and set down in the mid |
die of Water street. The boat-house of |
Messrs Reese and Pierson was pushed !
from its foundation and driven up against |
that Of DR.. R. F. Tull, and was also |
badly mashed, indeed every boat house |
above the bridge was more or less injur-
ed. As usual large quantities of wood |
belonging to Dir. W. NJ. Singerly was
swept away. A colored man who lives
in floating house built upon scow was
in tight fl for time. The food came
before he was expecting it, and came
very near sweeping him down. The only
anchorage he could get was small tree
which threatened to break away every
moment. He succeeded, however, by
using stout pole in keeping the ice
away.
At Cameron's mill on the Little Elk
at tho west end of town gorge similar
to the one at the iron bridge formed, and
the back water carried the ice out the
North East road for several hundred
yards where it was left, filling the road
to depth of two to four feet completely
blockading it. Supervisor VIM. Drake
is at work cutting a road way through.
The same thing occurred on the Glasgow
road the only difference being that
longer piece Of road was filed, the block
AIDE extending from the bridge to the
foot of Creswell's hill. This will not be
removed until the warm weather takes
it away, road way having been made
through the meadow around it,
On the creeks above but little damage
was done except at West Amwell rolling
mills where the dam breast which had
been broken by the previous flood, re-
ceived additional damages Of a serious
nature. The water was not so high
above as it was in this vicinity, the ice
gorges here backing it up.
The story circulated through the news
papers this week, to the effact that Mr. |