“Many persons are in very needy circumstances, some being left by the flood without either house or home except that extended temporarily by their friends.” Among the harrowing sights observed, the correspondent recorded that a mother was found, still holding her infant tightly to her chest, “though both were hushed in death.”ġ868 was certainly the most devastating flood to take place, both in river level rise and in fatalities, however others followed in 1901, 1917, 1938, 19. “The sufferers by the flood are very numerous,” The Sun reported on July 27, 1868, three days after the flood had struck. The earliest - and by far the worst - flood we have record for happened in 1868, when the Patapsco River flooded over 20 feet, killing 43 people. The Sun’s report following the damaging 1868 flood that killed 43 people. (Pearson/Baltimore Sun)ĭamage from 1975’s Hurricane Sandy took several months to clean up in Ellicott City. (DiPaola/Baltimore Sun)Įllicott City, Maryland, September 22, 1989.Įllicott City’s shopkeepers were still cleaning up debris from 1972’s Hurricane Agnes when they were hit by Hurricane Eloise in 1975. September 30, 1975: Bridges are out again, merchandise is ruined and the town is generally waterlogged after flooding, but Ellicott City already it starting to get it together again. (Cook/Baltimore Sun)Įllicott City’s Main street is awash with floodwaters and debris including this car which was caught in the currents on the outskirts of town near the Frederick road bridge. (Cook/Baltimore Sun)įrederick Road in Ellicott City, July 12, 1972, following Hurricane Agnes. area) during/after flooding from reminants of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Lee (Photo by Brendan Cavanaugh)įlooding during Hurricane Agnes, July 17, 1972. behind La Paplapa Photos from Historic Ellicott City (main st. View of main parkinglot area just off main st. Photo by Barbara Haddock TaylorĮllicott City, Maryland, September 7, 2011: The beam is located under the railroad tracks near the B&O Railroad Museum at the foot of Main Street. Miller.Įllicott City, MD–February 19, 2016–A support beam is marked with the heights of Patapsco river flood waters in Ellicott City over the years. Here some of the cars are shown piled up near the depot yard at Main Street and Maryland Avenue. September 1, 1952-FLASH FLOOD DID THIS–Heavy rains brought by the hurricane produced a flash flood to Ellicott City which washed twenty-one cars down Main Street along with household furnishings and store merchandise.

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