Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-16
The Waters Rise and Inundate
Port Deposit.
BUILDINGS CARRIED AWAY BY ICE
A Number of the Business
Places Under Water.


tense excitement and anxiety prevails. On
saturday the water was high. covering the
street almost from end to end and did not
fall. as il has done every dav since the ice
gorge began month ago. Al y. m, the
ice began 10 move, while the water with II
rush rose 10 feet, and all houses on the
lower side and many oil the upper side of
the street were flooded, Boats were seen
everywhere moving people from their
houses to places of safety. Huge cakes of
ice and timber of every kind were floating
about the street The high water con
tinued for half an hour, when II fell one
or Two feet TO rise again to height equal
to what It was before. This state of affairs
has continued for "a hours and the streets
are still Submerged.
The Ice this evening is running on the
Hartford side, hut is gurged ON the Cecil
SIDE. The gorge on the bar, three miles
below, seems to be as strong as ever and
there is only very narrow channel
through it. i is impossible to get any
nearer the point Of obstruction. Reports
from liavre de Grace state that the ice is
running there at the rate Of Is miles an
hour. Should anything cause the ice to
stop moving, the waters will rise anywhere
from TO II feet higher. This may take
place at any moment.
one end Of the depot, which was de.
serted Friday night, was crushed ill., All
the fish sheds which line the river front
are wrecked and are floating down tile
Ilver in thousands of pieces. j. ii. Row
iahd CO.. lumber yard and planning mill
have sustained serious damage one large
SIZED used for storage is d complete wreck,
ana another is seriously damaged The
large doors OF the planning mill gre broken,
and the ice and water nre passing through
1t. i IS more thai. likely that the end If
the building next to the river has been
carried away, bat it is impossible TO get
near enough to tell with any degree Of GER
tanty. All the lumber Of the trim is ilout-
ing down stream and the greater portion
OF it will be lost
TRAIN SERVICE ABANDONED.
Notrains have been run since Friday. One
mail train succeeded in getting within a
mile OF tho lower end Of town Saturday.
This was the only mail during the dav
The railroad track is covered for two miles
below Port Deposit and the loss sustained
ny the company is very heavy. Rpcl;
Run, where pasSagewny had been cut for
trains through the ice two weeks ago, is
now lillcd i'll worse than ever.
McALL's FERRY GORGE BROKEN.
tpto 10 o'clock this evening the river
changed but little since midnight last
night The water has fallen about two
feet from the highest point and is still fall.
&c Wv lhNN w llttil All IDllT. IL WAS
a. ~ o'clock 10 feet above low water mark
The streets are still covered. About 6
o'clock . dispatch came stating that the
gorge at McCalrs ferry, which Is % miles
above, had give away entirely. Tho ice,
however, is still gorgcd nine miles above
MctalIs and the water is % feet high.
That Hood will reach Port Deposit in four
or live hours, and the ice here must move
ont or the river get much higher. Tho ice
sill nnssinU tho Iurf,NpI OF, In
The bar three miles below is strong.
The inhabitants Of Port Deposit are
completely tired out, many of them not
having had any rest since Thursday. The
report from UP the river will keep them
astir and anxious all night long. To-day
has seemed but little like Sunday. No
services were held in any of the churches.
Some of the stores were open, supplying
those with provisions who had to leave
their homes without food Beside the
home talent many visiting photographers
were OH hand taking views, which will
make interesting pictures when developed.
SOME or THE SUFFERERS
Among the many whose houses arc sub.
merged may be mentioned: John NJ. Cres-
we'll, Il, +, Bricklcy, Mrs, .Tamor, John
Baynes, Jesse Fox, q. NJ. johnson, Frank
Drugan, John Geisler, John Walker,
August Bresner. John Kause and others.
4 ht lli'lLtS VI uHslllBSS lliluIpN are as lDl-
lows Depot, office Of McClcnahan & Bro,
H. T. Brickley, Robert Stebbngs, j. Frank
Crcswell, John Il. C1ulson, Adam Peoples.
w. Fl. Carson, Casper Morlen, office and
lumber yard Of the j. II. Rowland Manu-.
featuring Company, fish sheds Of u. p.
lirlnkley, James Mccullough and Oldham
q Williams
DAMAGE At HAvRE DE GRAcR.
HAvRg DE GRACE, Mn, March l2.-The
SuSquehanna river rose about d feet at
Havrc de Grace, Saturday night. but sub.
sided early this morning. and with it stub
sided the fears of tile inhabitants, The
wharves were submerged and the bed of
Water street north OF the Philadelphia,
Wilmington d baltimore railroad bridge
was flooded. The entire damage did not
amount 10 more than 5000 A heavy
framework extending from the break
water in front OF the bridge to the
pier on which the draw is pivoted was
iammed about & feet ont of its place. 1t
had no effect on the bridge or the draw, as
the frame work was only used US fender
to keep vessels from striking the draw. AT
no time has the bridge been in the slightest
danger.
The water began to rise about y. M,
and was caused by a gorge on the flats
below lavre de Grace. The water was at
Its height at IL p M; il thea began to fall
and tonight il is but two feet above ordi.
nary high tide, The ice is rushing down
the west side Of the river at u lively pace.
The eastern side, from the north end of
Garrett Island to near Port Deposit, is still
blocked with heavy ice. The channel
below Havre de trace is chOked clear to
Spesutia Island and the only outlet the
ice has below here is over the flats. The
towpath of the canal ut the tumble dam,
aboGt two miles above here, is broken for
space of over 60 feet in length. Another
smaller break in the canal tow path is
between Hayre de Grace and the tumble
dam. The waters covers the tow.path
above, and the probabilities are that other
damage mas been done the canal.
ELKToN, Mp. March l3.-lhe situation
at Port Deposit to-day has charged for the
better, the ice having moved in body to
the lower end of the town.
The water, which had backed upon the
street to q depth Of several feet, was at
noon rapidly reccdng by way of chan
mel on the Hartford county side,
The people entertain no further fear of
Hoods, and say the worst is past. Many
are preparing to move back to their for
lner quarters.
PoRr DEPoslT, Mn, March l3.-The ice
gorge of 1893 Is thing Of the past, but
will long live in the memory of the many
who witnessed it and suffered by it. The
water, however, aid not get rs high this
time by 10 feet as it did in 1877. Tho water
fell gradually all day Sunday and at mid
night the people OF the town, completely
worn ont from anxiety and worry, went to
bed feeling assured the worst was over.
BY morning the water had fallen about 10
feet from the highest point.
The total loss will ne not less than
S2j, 900, There are about 200 houses along
the lower side of the street and OF these
there is not an oitbuiding, fence or back
nnrph lnft 4 nnfNsargutit.a mud rp1i,.l,I,