Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

On Friday evening, there fell such a torrent of rain a few miles to the northward of this city, as has not been witnessed for a long time past, which raised the waters in the small rivers and creeks to such a degree as to do considerable damage.

A newly-erected bridge betwixt Germantown and Frankford was thrown down, and considerable damage was done to Frankford bridge, part of the foundation at one end, and the upper walls, having given way: in consequence of which a melancholy accident happened the same evening.

Mr. Lewis Uber (son of David Uber, Spring-Gardens) a young man just of age, was returning to town, and the part of the bridge which had been washed away being overflowed, he and his horse fell off the bridge into the river, and, though a very good swimmer (perhaps from some injury he might receive in the fall) he was unfortunately drowned! The horse was saved.

The body of the young man was found the next day, and on Sunday interred in the burial ground of the German Lutheran Church in this city. What adds to the melancholy of this event is, the young man was this week to have been married!