ABSTRACT
On Friday, March 11, 1864, exactly at midnight, a calamity, appalling and almost unparalleled, occurred along the course of the River Loxley, and the banks of the Don, where it passes through the town of Sheffield. An overwhelming Flood swept down from an enormous reservoir at Bradfield, carrying away houses, mills, bridges and manufactories, destroying property estimated at half a million sterling in value, and causing the loss of about two hundred and forty human lives.
