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BOCK INGHAM COUNTY.Mrs. W. J. Davis (widow of W. J • Davis, liveryman) and her child were drowned. Their bodies at last accounts had not been recovered. The county bridge across the Shenandoah at Elkton was swept away, and the new river bridge at Roudabasb’ts Mill, together with the stone abut ments, fell a victim to the surging ferocity of Cub Run. The fiue steel bridge at Elkton also came near being torn from its moorings by the Shenandoah River. We learn that the fine bridge at Shenandoah was also swept away.THB FLOOD OF 1870.The rain which produced the devastating flood of the year 1870, began to fall in the upper part of Page county about five o’clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 29, 1870, and all Wednesday night, Thursday, and Friday with slight intermissiou the down-pouring rain continued, and by five p. m., a little over eight inches of water had fallen in the forty-eight hours—the amount in the county being estimated at more than 100,000 millions of gallons. At dawn, the river had reached an altitude of thirty feet above its previous level. It then began to recede and by Saturday evening the river had fallen twenty feet, leaving a harrowing spactacle of ruins and desolation. Not a bridge was left on the river and even the immense stone piers and abutments of the burned bridges at Alma and Grove Hill were completely razed and scarcely a vestige of them left. Mills, stores, dwellings with their occupants, live stock, crops, and fences wlt; re swept away in the mad swirl of the enraged waters, entailing losses in the Valley of the Shenandoah estimated at between one million and five millions of dollars. The following is a list of the drowned as far as ascertained: Noah Kite and five of his family—Isabel, his wife, Eleonora, Eudora, Ashby, and Edward. His sons Erasmus and George escaped; a man by the name of West, of Richmond, who had been buying up bank money and slopped at Mr. Kite’s; Robert Aylshire ; unknown man at Welfly’s; Jack Stonebarger, supposed; Wm. Dorrough and family—about five, supposed; Jack Kite, supposed; at Harper’s Ferry reported that forty-three persons were drowned, and one at Point of Rocks, making a total of sixty or more persons drowned. In this flood, Mr. N. L. Blakemore informs us that his brother, Mr. Thomas Blakemore, wife, and three daughters were, drowned in the Shenandoah River at Front Royal, Va.
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New Market, Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 07, 1896
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