The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-26

| Ill the second story OF the DulltllTS, uTOVc
them away twice, but they succeeded on the
third attempt, in getting in undiscovered.
Locomotive engines standing on the track
in the depot yard are covered by the water,
leaving nothing but their bells and smoke
stacks visible.
Mrs. Clement G. Clay, wife of the we'll
known Alabamian of that name, arrived in
this city by the train on Tuesday night
Finding the travel by railroad cut OFT, she
remained in the passenger depot until Fri
day night when the rapidly rising waters
compelled her to beat retreat
Ten cars belonging to the Memphis u
Charleston Railroad Co., loaded with dry
goods, were standing on the company track
alongside of the passenger depot. When
the water was at its highest, it came within
foot and half of covering them.
MARTIAL LAW ASKED FOR.
Yesterday morning petition, signed by
about one hundred of the property owners
and business men of the city, was presented
to Major Kline, commanding the troops at
the post, requesting him to proclaim martial
law and interfere to protect the citizens
were plundering the deserted stores After
= consultation with his Honor, Mayor Carr,
Major Kline issued the following order:
HEADQUARTERS I-OSI,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March II, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 12.
In pursuance with wishes Of the Mayor
and property holders, the city of Chatham
ooga IS hereby placed under martial law.
All sllitfs, barges, fatboats, etc, will be
seized and used by the military for the pur-
| pose OF moving furniture, ETC., unless they
hold permits from the Mayor or from these
Headquarters. JACOB KLINE.
| Capt 25th Inf, Z. S. A, Comd'g. Post.
Two companies of men, in charge of
commissioned officer, were sent out during
the morning and guards stationed at the
foot of every street on both sides of the over
flow, with orders to take every boat as soon
as it landed. Every boat owned and used
by any man OF responsibility, or who could
prove that he was using his boat for lcgit-
! innate purpose, was afterwards released, but
| a great number were taken from negroes and
suspicious characters, and placed under
guard.
LOSS OF LIFE
No reliable estimate can be made as vet
| of the number of individuals who have per
ished by the flood. We can only give few
| authenticated accounts from which
our readers can judge of the probable num-
Der.
Between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday
| night cries We're heard as from two men in
the water, on railroad street, opposite the
! Crutchfield House. Their cries were min
gled with splashing in the water, which
| lasted for u couple of minutes, when all be-
came quiet, and it is feared thar some unfor-
| sunate men sank to rise no more. a small
boat containing three men capsized between
the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. at
Seventh and Chestnut streets, on Saturday
morning. No boats were near to render
| them any all, and none of them seemed to
| know how to swim. After several vain en-
deavors to climb upon their boat they final
| ly went down.
| A frame building, with three men on it,
| floated across Sutlertown late on Sunday
evening Two of them slipped off the roof
somehow, and in attempting to get back on
it, it turned over on them, throwing the third
off, and burying the two underneath it. A
| gentleman informs us that he Ia. counted
fifteen bodies of men, women and children,
white and black, float past his place, on the
Lookout Mountain road. A negro man was
drowned near the upper end Of the depot
yard, on Saturday afternoon, and white
man was lost by his boat swapping near
| the old Soldiers Home. corner of Ninth and
| Pine streets. AS we said before, no estimate
can be made of the number of lives lost. but
We have no doubt that it is very large
L
| known.
| sUBsIDING OF THE FLOOD.
From the Union, Wednesday 18th.
! During yesterday the water fell at the rate
OF four inches per hour, and last night twas
going down at the rate of i've inches. To-
| day it will probably lower still faster.
Market street, at the intersection of Ninth,
and from Fourth to Third, was out of water
| at dusk last evening, after being out of sight
| four days.
Martial law still prevails. The military
are working in conf junction with the civil
authorities and doing all in their power to
keep law and order in town.
The city was generally quiet during Mon
| day night, but numerous robberies mere COM
mitted in spite of the increased police force.
During yesterday our merchants and bust
ness men were busily engaged in attending
to their stores and Stocks the waters having
fallen sufficiently to allow of boats entering
the first floors of all on Marker street. Mud
over an inch deep has settled on everything
which the receding waters bring up to the
| light and the labor and expense of cleaning
shelving counters and floors will be Il very
heavy item on the list of losses occasioned
| by the flood.
| While the waters were coming up on Fri
| day, some OF the merchants doing business
on Ninth street commenced moving their
stocks, but their over confident neighbors
laughed at them and made such fun of them
for getting scared at the idea of the flood
| coming up that high, that they quit the work,
| and the result of their over confident spirit
was apparent on Saturday, when they found
the water over the counters and their goods
floating around.
Rations were issued by the city authorities,
yesterday, to.the hundreds of poor white and
black, who swarm in our city and whose pen
ury has been increased by the loss of their
/ habitations and huts
Shots could be heard during last night in
various parts OF the city. We suppose they
were either fired by some of the soldiers on
duty, at men proving around in canoes, who
refused to come to when ordered, Or else by
some of the police or citizens at suspicious
characters.
Buildings have been carried off from every
part of the city. Some of them are lodged
within the corporation limits on high spots
of ground, or have caught on posts and held
till the waters went down, when they over
turned and now lie in every odd manner on
the streets.