"Friday evening, March 13, Thomas Follmer and his son Henry andWilliam G undy, son of Major John Gundy, who were managing theFarmers' company s tore at Turtle creek, were drowned at the mouth ofthat creek. They we re going in a boat, about ten, P. M., to visitthe store-house on the o pposite side of the creek, and were on theirreturn, when the mill dam g ave way, and the boat struck a timberraft. William Gundy's body was fo und in the boat under the raft, thenext day; the others were carried d own the river, and their bodieswere found three weeks afterward, some m iles below. The flood in theriver at this time exteeded that of 1810, b eing six and one halfinches above the mark of that date on Kramer's st ore-house. The canalwas broken, mails stopped, the Milton bridge badly i njured, thebridge on the North Branch, at Northumberland, carried away , as wellas the one at Duncan's island, and the Harrisburg bridge in p art."
