Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-06-04

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ing of the lower floor, and will be
ready for operation again, foreman
Black thinks, within six weeks or two
months.
The first span (the one nearest the
Loudoun side) of the Shenandoah
bridge, broke and went down at :35
P. NJ. Saturday, and in less than ten
minutes the next span followed. An
hour later the third span went down.
The last span still remains. Messrs.
n. A. Kirwin and VIM. Harrell were
out ON the bridge when the first span
gave way, and were in imminent
danger.
Col. j. Garland Hurst, our late
Sheriff, had probably the best and
most deliberately finished and fur
nished house in Harper's Ferry, and
almost everything on his main floor
was ruined.
1t was a sad sight on Sunday af-
tersoon to walk into the drug store
of Mr.. r. II. Cavalier and see the
wreck of his elegant stock. Mr.. II.
". Daniels was similarly situated
with his drug store. The sagacity
and activity of AIR J. H Myers in
the removal of his stock saved him
much loss.
We sympathize with our old friend
Mrs. S. A. Graham, and trust she
saved her mercantile stock from Sc
rious damage, though we could not
yet learn if she had.
Mr.. I. A. Kirwan, in addition to
the almost total loss of his stock.
lost two stables and an ice-house.
Mr.. James McGraw lost heavily
in damage to shelf goods, which he
did not get removed.
AR. Thos. II. Jones was left in a
terrible plight by the flood, both in
his household effects and livery outfit.
Capt. George w. Green moved his
hotel goods from the lower to the
second floor, and yet had them
flooded.
A piece of railroad track swung
around against the end of the stone
house on the Shenandoah which had
been partly washed out in 1870, and
it was thought the old building,
which was submerged almost to the
top of the second story, would Ger
tainly go this time, but such was not
the case. The piece of track broke
in twain and Hoated down on either
side, whilst the house remained, a
landmark, as it were, of the ravages
of three heavy floods.
a GRAND SIGHT.
The flood on Saturday was an aw-
full, yet grand sight. To the spectator
on the Potomac heights above Island
Park, at Jefferson's Rock or higher up
on Camp Hill, and way up on the
bluff above the Catholic graveyard
pictures were presented that no pen
can describe. From the latter point,
looking up the river, the surge of the
mighty torrent us it came around the
bend below Bulls Falls could be seen,
and its awful roar was almost APP
Ipalling. But down the river was the
grandcst view that could be obtained
from any point about Harper's Fer
ry. just below lay South Bolivar,
n little further on the Shenandoah
Pulp Mills, below and to the right of
this the Island of yirginius with its
buildings almost submerged and the
tops of the trees just out of the wa
ter, and far out, standing like a grim
sentinel, almost in the middle of the
river, the Harper's Ferry FIGURING
Mill. On down, the lower side OF
Harper's Ferry was presented, and
the Loudoun Bridge came into view,
and below this the waves of the Poto-
mac were seen to lash themselves into
fury over the rocky bed below the
bridges. Further on the mighty
river rolled in a resistless torrent un,
tilt was lost to view mile or two
below by a bend to the right,
and the green hills of Maryland
gave to the picture a beautiful back
ground, in striking contrast with
the devastation and ruin being
wrought by the mighty waters at
their base.
The c. & o. Canal is such wreck
that it is not supposed it will ever
be put in operation again.
Bush SmaIlwood's house, on the
Shenandoah, opposite Bloomery. was
washed away, and the ShannondaIe
ferry-boat is gone. The Springs
property is much injured.
The damage to fencing, crops,
&c., all along the Shenandoah and
Potomac rivers is very great.
Maj. w. H. T, Lewis, we have
heard, lost some cattle and sheep by