Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-15
Na1es from tI,e DeIure.

Perhaps the most important item to be
communicated this morning is the fact that
the great food is receding pretty rapidly in
all directions. At Bridgeport yesterday
morning it had gone down fully two feet
in the previous eighteen hours Along the
line Of the Chattanooga railroad, the waters
were materially subsiding, the situation at
Stevenson showing a decrease Of eight
inches in one day. From all the indica-
tons, the deluge will soon have so far sub
sided that the work of repairs on tie roads
will be commenced at an early day. We
have little further 10 report in regard to the
state Of affairs at Chattanooga. A gentle
man who left there on Tuesday morning,
and arrived here on Wednesday night re-
ports that the Tennessee had risen fourteen
feet higher than was ever known before ;
but at the time Of his departure from Chat
tanooga il had experienced a decline of
about twenty inches The rolling mill
government ship yard, and many Of the
largest mercantile houses on the bank Of
the river, are swept away, or totally de
str0yed. The water was up TO the second
story of the Crutchfield House, and boats
are continually passing to and fro. Great
destitution and suffering exists, in conse-
quence Of supplies of breadstuffs being cut
of The Pest Commander, in anticipation
of riotous conduct, and the plundering of
the more wealthy of the inhabitants, has
, declared martial law. The bridge at Lou
don was safe but the new bridgeat Straw
berry Plains was swept away
The Waterman, kirkpatrick, who had
been swept down the river with the four
missing spans from the Bridgeport bridge,
and whose obituary notice we wrote a
couple Of days since, has, strange to relate,
turned up safe and sound. After being
precpitated into the river, he managed to
climb up on the wreck, and, in this cOndi-
ton he hoated down the Tennessee for
eighty miles, when he was picked up by
the steamer Kingston, and taken back 10
Bridgeport. The four bridge spans hoated
down to Muscle Shoals where they now are
The Memphis branch Of the Louisville
railroad is said TO be only lenabls 10 Clarlls
Vile South Of that point il is covered by
water, in many places eight or ten feet
deep, and il is believed that many damages
not vet observable 10 the eye will be dis
covered when the water recedes. The pas
senser train from Louisville got in last
evening at six o'clock, and it is expected
that both freight and passenger trains will
run on schedule time from to-day. We
have nothing further in the way Of dam
agesto report
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. March 12.-It is
estimated that the late flood has damaged
East Tennessee over two millions Of dole
lars. Over one hundred persons were
washed out of their homes in Knoxville.
The bridges connecting East and West
Knoxville were all impossible. Casper &
Davis, of the sash and blind factory, lost
their shop and all their machinery. Mar
shall Coker, lumberman, lost some 100000
feet Of lumber.
The county bridge, built by Gen. Burn
side during the siege Of Knoxville, was
carried Off
!. The damage to the farming interests was
very heavy. Many farmers lost their
houses barns grain and stock, and have
nothing left but their bare lands. One man
living on an island in the French Broad
river, lost everything he had but two horses,
and took his family off in a boat.
A Mr.. Meredith, living near Bristol, lost
a -four mill, a foundery, his house and all
bis stock. Great quantities of corn had
been stored in cribs on the river awaiting
high water for shipment. All this corn,
over one hundred thousand bushels, was
swept away, and now lies scattered on the
bottoms. buried in the mud. The crops
have been washed out, and the farmers are
very bad of. There must be great suffer
ing in the river valleys.
The railroads lost heavily. The East
Tennessee and Virginia railroad lost three
spans of their bridge at Strawberry Plains.
Their loss is over fifteen thousand dollars.
The bridge over Flat creek is gone. Loss
ten thousand dollars.
The Knoxville and Kentucky railroad
had heavy slide at Copper Ridge.
The East Tennessee and Georgia rail-
road lost several bridges near Chattanooga.
These roads will be in running order in
ten days. Passengers are now carried over
the breaks in boats.
Kingston and Loudon we're partly under
water. The loss is heavy. The streams
are falling but families are still camping
out