Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-08-21


ne.rs can lay -etore many O; them. Judging
from the present state of the river. and the highest
freshes which ere have Witnessed Tor the last dozen
years, ills almost battles our beliefIt was in
commemoraton OF this event, that the O6eiisk near
C1rles, in the lower end this county, was cree
ted by Mr.. Randolph 10 mark the height OF the de-
uge.
From RE Firginia Gazette, Published a. III
6amsturgh, By Plraie and Diron--.JIay so,
i77I.]
letter from Richmond dated on Morday
last says, there is the greatest fresh in James
| River ever known, it being at least 20 feet hige-
| than in May, l766. The Ware houses at Westham
are entirely gone. with three hundred hossheads
| OF tobacco At Birds Weare houses the water is
! now hsif way up the lower tier ui hogsheads the
| other W are houses at Shocko almost under
water, and the tobacco drifting away by thirty and
| ;orty lngshCads ut time. 1t is imagined there
~ gilt have been about tree thousand hossheads in
| the different Ware houses al ShoekO. Almost e.
every humber house is goac aud destroyed on each
| SIDE OF the river, many Of them full of goods
| with many dwelling houses beth here aad at Rocky
Ridge
"Sonc people who left Z edmond the same day
| III the afternoon. say that the river was there
I rising at the rate OF two inches hour bat
we SINCE learn, that it began to abate about sun
| set.
! GAN the low grounds have been oyerfowed. ly
| which uncomfortable damage has been done. Eve
| ~ ding carried off Farrar's lizard, long ng
To Col. Thomas Mann Randolph; and at Elk ISL
| and, John Wsyles, Esq. said TO have suffered TO
| The amount of four Thousand pouncs nothing saved
| but the people and five horses.
"Ihe ships ia the river were in the nostimmi-
! danger, from the VAT number uf huge trees
driving down by the rapidly oflhe current, ans
| many If them have sustained gseat damage. The
| ships ut Shiry-fiunfr.d were driven from their
! moOrngs to City Psint, aid these at City
! Point down low as Jorlans. Capt StereIsun
went ashore at the point and Is not yea got off
| Capt. Corhie lost three nihs anchors and la
J very great danger. Six OF Captain Clsrk's
men, in the yaw!, clearing away the drilling
| trees, &c were orerset, and five OF them drown
! ed. Captsin Sampson, Of Bristol, lost one at
his and his ship drive en- SO far on
shore that it is feared she will Eut be got off a.
| gain.
90 Some waegoners who are arrived at Rich
mond, from Augusta, say iat it ranetl almost ever
since they LETT home, which, about Ten twelve
days; and since ieSrn, that there has been the
create, st devastation in that county ard Albemarie
by the uvereowins OF low g. oallds. loss OF stock
houses, &c."
Franz HE same, Jizie 6.
Is From Richmond We learn, tnst lucy receive
Tally Accounts Of the Devastation oRed by tie
la 4 Floods. From tile Mountains, 10 the Falls,
The Low Grounds have been swept Of almost
every Thing Valuable aud the Soil is So
much iJue ed, I at 1t is thought not To be of
Hail its former Value, AID :. cat Part is en-
tirely raued. One Instance may suffice 4
Tract O.. Lafl. where the river FORKS, which be-
fore the Fresh was j-dSedto b. richly worth ten
Thousand Pounds, IS hot row rated at SO many
Hundreds. Fourteen Negroes belonging 10 dat
Estate drowned, aud only ore House left out
OF fo:ty, which were sixty by forty teet.--Of Elk
Island, between six aud seven Huudred Head ofCa;-
tie, Hugs, Horses, ard Sheep, have been lost, and
iluu.i cd Houses; besides q. AIN, Tobacco,
&c. At Fairar's Island, which tie highest Frcsa
never before affected, above eighty Acres OF fine
Land, are read, red forever Incapable OF Cu.tra-
tiou, tie soil being gone, and III lis stead ten
twelve Feet deep OF Sand, upon which is Layer
Of Stones as if paY~d Many other lsla have
been torn to pieces hills OF sand thrown up, chan
nes sopt and their courses altered, and, in short,
The Face Of Nature almost changed. Old JOE, an
honest and well known Negro Fellow at the Fats
of James River, who is intimately acquainted
with the remains OF an Indian Nation that has re-
sided there for Ages, says that lac as shown BY
thGr oil Slen tile Marks OF the greatest Fresh
handed down to them BY Tradition; and thai,
upon his carefully measnring, il wanted fit
Feet Of the late dr. adlul A ship at w arTick
founder ed from the beginning OF the perceiyab!e In
crease oil The ltiYer and found that the Fresh, at
its height, upwards OF orty feet higher tisan
the common y DIS The l,ss,ned value OF Lands,
Loss OF Stocks, Hoses, Tobacco, Wheat and Corn
III Houses, with Fencing, AID tle Crops on the
Grotiud, battle all description ru's, Shocko,
Richmond, Il eky Ridge, aud Warwick, Eave suf-
fercd amazingly ia the Loss of Merchandise and
Tobacco, besies Houses, sc Between five and
six Thcssaud Hogshe ads If 1obaccoPre gone from
these Places The disticsses Of tie people III Al
hcmarle, ami those Parts Of the CUurtry in the |
Reach OF tie Fresh, Is not to be desc bed most
Of ID, beim, LETT without Bread TO ca, Dwell
lues, and tiiCii Sosks gone. The trading Part Of
the County has likewise suffered excessively, in |
European and other Goods, as well imports as cx- |
ports.-1he Losses, and great Distress, Ct the
Sufferers, call loudly for the interpretation
and Assistance OF tire legislature which 40 q, ubt |
that respectful Body will take inlo as es IS Con-
sidcraGon IS M he, aud grant the immediate aud /
eil, ctnal Relief wch is so much wanted Ia some |
Places, Trees, Carcsses &c are matted tog -ther,
from twelve TO twenty Feet in height AID, hom |
the horrii Stencil, there is no coming nesr enough /
TO separate them. Happily, ii, az Is as,n, |
escape some contagious DisDI,iCr.-Aiiles length
OF frees and Log cane driving down the River, |
asd Nothing cou withstand their Fmcs. Tie !
l. gsw &c aImos W IN The BOltsprts Of many /
Vessels so ti.st tner Anchors could rot avail |
theuf and were chi5ly LOST There we're 10 Rains /
to speak 81 Al Richmond, and t,creshouts, that |
they must have fallen from the Mountains to alb at /
thirty OF forty Miles sbose Tie Falls From The
first pcrceiysble Rise oil Tie River az that Pisce,
was about sixty Hours, and The Water sometimes
rose at tie rapid rate OF sixteen Inches au hour
Daily Accounts are received Of The Loss Of Whole
Families aud IOases zane floating down, witt |
People Oh them calling Or Help, tsough none
could be afforded. Accouu.s alrca.y reserved
Of fifty Old Peep icing drowned
"AppomattOx has been little Or eothng affected,
". eh proves that tie lSans must have fallen high
@ a.. Dsya.to,;on or poanote !, ;f ,,os,;tls l