Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-19

RECEPERATENG.
The Floods Rapidly on the Wane-A
Glance at the General Situation rs if
INV Appears-The Chattanooga Rail-
read Company Rushing through the
work Of Repairs-TraveI over the
Road 60 be Resumed by Thursday
ext-COnditiOn Of other Roads.
The principal item Of interest 10 be re-
ported this morning in connection with the
deluge, is the fact that in all directions it
is on the wane, and that the work of recu-
peration and repair, especially on the rail
roads, is being pushed through rapidly.
By-the-by, we should not forget to state
that, although at Bridgeport and other
points on the Tennessee river, the water
had declined very materially, dispatch
from Johnsonviile yesterday stated that
the river there was higher than on any
former day. This is certainly something
strange, as at Bridgeport the food had re-
ceded away down 10 within the banks Of
the riger-souae fifteen or twenty feet lower
than when at its highest.
Along the track Of the Chattanooga
railroad, the water has entirely disap
peared, except, perhaps, for few miles in
the neighborhood Of Bass. Thanks to the
energy Of Col. lines, and his assistant, Col.
Yates, the work Of repairs is being pushed
through vigorously. There are between
eight hundred aud thousand men en-
plOyed in the work Of reconstruction, dis
tributed, IS the situation requires, between
Anderson aud Chattanooga. The bridge
over the creek this side of Chattanooga, at
the base Of Lookout mountain, will be re-
paired by this evening. The large irestle
work at Running Water, which was the
first structure on the road to give way, will
be up by tomorrow morning. The bridges
between Bass and Stevenson, it is estimated,
will be done by Wednesday, and unless
some unlocked for drawback is encountered,
every break, except the gigantic bridge
across the Tennessee at Bridgeport, will
have been repaired by Thursday.
A contract has been completed by Col
lines, General Superintendent, by which
three steamers and number Of barges have
been secured, and passengers, baggage and
freight, etc, will be transferred across the
Tennessee IN cars. A track will be built on
either side, leading down to the water, and
whole trains viii be ferried over bodily.
The locomotives and cars Of the road
were not damaged to any great extent con
trary TO first reports The depot and freight
houses have all been repaired and are now
ready for nse The Chattanooga railroad
sustained a heavy loss, however, in the
destruction of fully one hundred car loads
of freight which could not be removed.
From parties recently arrived from Chat
tanooga, we learn that the place is fast as
suming its normal condition. Houses are
being replaced, business is getting brisk,
and the general situation is strongly sug-
gestiye Of progress and improvement. II
is thought that the loss of life at first re-
ported was exaggerated.
On the Decatur road the Swan Lake
bridge will be completed to-day, when
trains will run through as usual. This
road will effect arrangements to run a line
Of steamers from Decamre up the Tennes-
zee to Chattanooga. Since the break in
the Chattanooga railroad nearly the entire
tide Of travel has been turned over the De-
catur route, and il has beensfairly glutted
with freight and passengers This road is
telegraphing TO Consummate arrangements
for the transportation of 1000 car loads of
freight over the Mobile and Ohio rail
road.
Trains on the Western Atlantic railroad
are now running into Chattanooga but lit
tie damage having been sustained. The
only bridge carried away on this road was
at Chichmauga, and the three spans de-
stroyed will be replaced in a day or two.
Three spans of the Strawberry Plains
bridge on the East Tennessee and Virginia
railroad were carried away. The steamer
d - - i 1.
tendent Bruner 10 convey passengers from
McMillien TO Strawberry Plains, distance
Of sixteen miles, on the Holston river.
This arrangement fills up the break in the
road, eight or ten miles of which, it is esti-
mated have been washed away.
On the East Tennessee and Virginia rail
road there is an immense landslide above
Bristol, and some thirty-three miles of this
road are estimated to have been badl
damaged by the floods.
The rise in the Holston river was forty
eight feet eight inches above low water
mark. The bridge over the HOlstOn, one
thousand feet long, is reported washed
away.
Great damage has been done TO property
in the valley of First creek. A great many
houses and mills have been washed away
The same may be said of property along
the course Of the Holstou itself
The bridge over the Chicamauga, on the
Dalton and Chattanooga railroad is reported
to the Superintendent of the East Tennes-
see and Virginia railroad az having been
washed away.
The greatest energy is being displayed
by the officers Of the various roads damaged,
and communications are being resumed as
rapidly as possible.